Not sure if this has been noted before, but I was having a look at a friends web site, and found a reference to ways that you know that you have a Klingon programmer. I then found the site here. I enjoy Star Trek but I do not own a single episode on DVD or tape… I am not into it that much. I just found the words interesting. Two of the quotes are :-

• “You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you’ve read it in the original Klingon.”
• “Klingon function calls do not have ‘parameters’ — they have ‘arguments’ — and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.”

According to Yahoo, the earth’s Magnetic Poles are moving. The north pole is drifiting away from North America, and may be in Siberia within 50 years. Scientists believe that on average every 250,000 years the poles actually swap. Given that it has been about 600,000 years since the last swap then the swap is actually overdue – although the swap would take hundreds of years to actually occour.

Grynx has plans on their WWW site for a real HDD clock. This is one with real hands. More details are available here