Cool Numbers

I like wasting my time with Where's George. It's trivial, but I like trivia, and it's neat. They added a new feature a while back where they run your bill's serial number through a web site that does analysis on the number. I entered a bill today that had the serial number 07900999. I knew it would be Cool and it turned out to have a Coolness Index of 97.1%. It reported the following:

# This bill contains a 4-of-a-kind and 1 triple. Only 0.21% of 8-digit numbers have this combination.

# This bill has 3 unique digits. In 0.71% of 8-digit numbers, there are 3 or fewer unique digits.

# This bill contains 1 triple and 1 pair together. Only 1.5% of 8-digit numbers have this combination.


(Apparently I'm kinda brain dead and bored right now!)

Top 11 reasons Harry Potter would make a lousy IT pro

From a friend's post on another board

Sep 1, 2005 | By Tom LaSusa Tim Wilson

11) Pet owl would attack computer mice and leave deposits on keyboards

10) Wand might misfire at annual meeting, killing shareholders

9) Invisibility cloak would hide him from users, management

8) He'd keep slapping servers and yelling, "Repairum Serviosa!"

7) He'd replace data-center door with portrait of password-hungry fat lady

6) Flame under cauldron would set off fire-suppression system

5) He'd behave too much like a manager, waving wand and expecting results

4) He'd write all his command-line interfaces in Latin

3) He'd keep trying to link PCs via floo network (my personal favorite)

2) Server-room Quidditch. 'Nuff said

1) Would you leave a whiny teenager with identity issues alone in your data center? (Wait, we already have....)