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Rants, Raves and Reviews

When you've got a Web Site you can moan and groan or rant on and on about anything you like; find out what's pleased and upset the Happy Hippy in this lifetime ...

  • All Hail The King This page was created on the 18th of Januray, 2005
  • Indian Justice causes US Outcry This page was created on the 22nd of December, 2004
  • Freedom is Death, Death is Freedom This page was created on the 22nd of December, 2004
  • The Enslavement of Modern Man This page was created on the 17th of December, 2004
  • Human Rights and Inhuman Wrongs This page was created on the 16th of December, 2004
  • The Missing Defense Shield This page was created on the 15th of December, 2004
  • The Legacy of Fallujah This page was created on the 14th of December, 2004
  • Supporting the Troops This page was created on the 14th of December, 2004
  • State Sponsored Terrorism This page was created on the 14th of December, 2004
  • Compare and Contrast
  • America Comes a Cropper
  • Patriotism, Paula, and the Pursuit of Excellence
  • The Ring of Bright Water
  • Armstrong's Strong-Arm Tactics
  • Tesco's Bag, Full of Cash
  • The American Attrocities at Abu Ghraib
  • A Twisty Maze of Passages, all alike
  • Not Quite the Real Thing
  • Playing the Blame Game
  • Air Marshals Fly into Town
  • The Love is Lost, but the Lies Linger
  • Is There Life on Mars ?
  • Capitalism Kills
  • Front-Line Fiasco
  • Barking Up the Wrong Tree
  • For Whom the Road Tolls
  • All in a Day's Work
  • Labour's Education Policy, or a Free-For-All ?
  • France Brings UK to its Knees
  • The Thin Blue Line
  • George W Bush - Life in His Hands
  • Goodbye Brent East
  • Who Killed Bambi ?
  • David Blaine - Below the Above
  • It's true - I saw it on TV
  • An Educational Wasteland ?
  • No Swimming Allowed
  • Education, Education, Education and Lies
  • Flying in the Face of Danger
  • The Mint with the Hole
  • Dagerous Dogs : Princess Anne goes to Court
  • Fame - I Want To Live Forever
  • Taking a Leaf out of the PG Tips Book
  • Her Majesty - The Terrorist Sympathiser ?
  • Hear the Sound of Swedish Meatballs
  • Murder Most Foul
  • Police Officers on Speed
  • Happy Hackers on Washington Hill
  • Forever in Blue Jeans
  • Invade Iraq
  • Government Thievery
  • This Law is an Ass
  • A Pox on the Government
  • Throwing Away the Key
  • Talk about LAX security !
  • Mack the Knife
  • Taking Another Bite at the Digital Cake
  • Stopping the Terrorist
  • Ducking, Diving and Forever Spinning
  • Jacking Up The Union Flag
  • Britain's Brightest Star
  • Hats Off For M'Lud
  • The Nitty-Gritty of Political Correctness
  • Broken, Badly Designed and Dangerous
  • Yesterday, We Was Posh Folk
  • The Thorn In Auntie's Side
  • Hot Dogs and Noodles
  • The Potters Bar Train Crash
  • Stephen Byers - Lies or Misunderstanding ?
  • Live a Little
  • There's BK. Then There's OK
  • Courtney Barker - Death at Blue Lagoon
  • The End of ITV's Digital Dream
  • The Foot And Mouth Epidemic
  • The Selby Train Crash Was Avoidable
  • Squeezing Out Enjoyment
  • More Innocent Statistics ?
  • Mid-Summer Organ Festival
  • The All Protecting Yellow Lozenge
  • Disabling the Armed Forces
  • The Chaos of Kosovo
  • Safety - Off the Rails
  • Throwing Petrol on the Fire
  • Tony Blair - Who Says I'm An Idiot ?
  • A Bridge Too Far
  • The Tate Modern, And Not Dated
  • English, Like What She Is Writ
  • Welcome to the Year 2000
  • Into the Year 2000 - Making Britain Great Again ?
  • Philip Howarth - Guilty of Being Innocent
  • Glyn Davies - A Lamb to the Slaughter
  • Millennium Madness
  • Winston Silcott - No Smoke Without Fire
  • You'll Never Guess What's For Lunch
  • Leave Blood at a Hospital, Not on the Highway
  • Pray Silence - The Earl of Wessex Speaketh
  • The Newbury Bypass - A Road to Nowhere
  • An Islamic Jihad - Kill or Be Killed
  • The Carnival Against Capitalism
  • A Day Out to Dungeness
  • Taken for a Ride
  • The Ethics of Ethnicity
  • Guilt Edged Justice
  • The Death of Jill Dando
  • The BAFTA's, 1999
  • The Pitchfork and the Stealth Bomber
  • Small Is Not Always Beautiful
  • Yanking the Yugoslavian's Chain
  • A Right Royal Credit Risk
  • Getting The Hump
  • The Oscars, 1999
  • The Brit Awards, 1999
  • Declining Standards
  • What Day Is It ?
  • The Bramley's - Britains Most Wanted Family
  • Beat the Crusher ? No, Destroy It
  • Has the UK become a Third World Country ?
  • The National Health Service Crisis
  • Deadly Floppy Disks
  • The Secrets of 1968
  • So, How was 1998 ?
  • Christmas Shopping - Don't You Just Love It !
  • Bye Bye Baghdad
  • In Defence of Waste
  • Who is Isaac Hayes ?
  • Going Whacko in Waco
  • Midland Bank - Banking on a Name Change
  • Ionica - Air Waves Waving Goodbye
  • Pensioner, aged 77, Lost in Space
  • Ron Davies MP - Just a Common Man
  • Pinochet - The Left Turn Looney
  • A Bitter Taste in the Mouth
  • Life's a Gas in the British Police Force
  • Children - Sweet, Innocent Young Things ?
  • It's a Dog's Life
  • Hypocrisy finds a Happy Home
  • Perhaps Some Things are Black and White
  • Fighting The Fatwa
  • Zero Tolerance of Zero Tolerance
  • Professor Stanley Unwin - Lest We Forgetlow
  • Free ISP's - What's them then ?
  • Clinton - A Rationalised Verdict  This page contains subject matter of an adult nature
  • Clinton - A Republican Conspiracy ?  This page contains subject matter of an adult nature
  • The Royal Mint - Sitting on the Shoulders of Fools ?
  • Not so much a Can-Can as a Knee-Jerk
  • Heat Activated Conditioner from Elida Hair Institute, Paris
  • Mas, Pans, Calypso, Soca and Techno - It's Carnival Time !
  • Cambridge - Car Driver's Hell
  • Goodbye Second-hand Car Market
  • A DNA Database
  • Traffic Wardens - Nice People ?
  • Le Tour de France
  • Bad Language ?
  • The End Of The Peer Show
  • Internet Cities
  • The Spice Girls
  • Upgrading to IE5 - Beware The Big Bad Wolf
  • Safeway's Supermarkets
  • The New Vauxhall Astra
  • St Louise of Elton
  • In Camera
  • Football Madness
  • The Government and Other Wasters
  • It's The Beer Talking
  • The Tourist Trap
  • Sky One's Bloody Foreigners
  • It's not a Cola
  • Visual Impairment and why I hate Microsoft
  • Why I hate Ian Gillan
  • Is Peter Lilley, MP ... ?

  • What they're saying about this site


    Education and Entertainment

    If you are looking for intellectual stimulation or just want to be entertained; these useful topics should keep you occupied for a while ...

  • Hippy's Recent Film Reviews

  • Hippy's Favorite Film Festival

  • Hippy's Happy Eating Emporium

  • Hippy's Personality Profiler  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • Hippy's Aptitude Testing Trials
  • Hippy's Quick Quiz Challenge
  • Hippy's Driving Hints and Tips
  • Hippy's Quotes Collection
  • Hippy's World of Mystery
  • Hippy's Music Collection
  • Hippy's Video Collection
  • Hippy's Poetry Collection
  • Hippy's Joke Collection
  • Hippy's Tongue Twister Collection

  • The Oscars, 1999
  • The BAFTA's, 1999
  • The Brit Awards, 1999

  • My Fight With The Balrog
  • The Story of Oedipus
  • Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" Speech


    Lifestyle Issues

    Let the Happy Hippy take away all your worries with a useful cornucopia of information for the modern age ...

  • Compromise Politics - Time for a Change
  • Give Me a Gun, and I'll Clear the Streets of Crime
  • Police Invent Telephone Scam
  • A Poisonous Web of Deceit
  • O2 - Oh Dear ...
  • The Bush Internet Set-Top Box
  • The Things You Find in a Spam Trap  Parental Guidance required
  • The Wharfedale 750s DVD Player
  • Car Boot Sales - A Bonanza of Bargains
  • Inventions and Creations - Who Owns Your Work ?
  • Thinking About Buying The Freeserve E-Mail Pager - Take Care !
  • John Cooper Clarke's Mobile Phone
  • The Shark Hippys
  • Everyone's Free to Eat Gateau
  • The Prophecies of Nostradamus
  • The UK Air Pollution Hotline
  • Birthday and Christmas presents for a Scorpio
  • Happy ? Sad ? Check out Hippy's Personality Profiler  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • Good at words ? Try Word Box !  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • Are you a dog, a pig or a dragon ? The Chinese Years
  • Things can only get better - Socialism in song
  • Were Slade better than T-Rex ?
  • Check out your weight with the Body Mass Index Calculator  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • Play Bombs ( a Mine Sweeper clone )  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • Play Noughts and Crosses / Tic-Tac-Toe  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • Hippy's Amazing Camping Checklist
  • Group Discussions
  • What I Want, What I Really, Really Want ...
  • Hippy's Ambient Music Project
  • Cropredy Festival ( Fairport Convention )


    Unusual Hobbies

    Bored ? Can't think what to do ? Here are some hobbies that the Happy Hippy will lay odds-on that you haven't thought of trying ...

  • Credit Card Magic
  • Car Knocking
  • Wanking Yourself into a Coma  This page contains subject matter of an adult nature
  • The Ancient Art of Iki-Twato
  • TV Programme Titles
  • Baked Beans
  • The Free ISP Game
  • Cat Skinning
  • Radiation Warning Stickers
  • The ER count
  • The M25 tour
  • Cow Tipping
  • Fly Tipping
  • The Wonderful World of Pylons

    If you're thinking, "But none of these involve using my computer", then there is no better way to spend hours at your keyboard than joining in with ...

  • The Euphoria Pixel Bot Project


    Science and Technology

    Wow, isn't Science complex ! Let the Happy Hippy guide you through those complex scientific matters that are worrying you ...

  • PAL VCD Testcards
  • Is That a Phone in Your Pocket ?
  • The Terrorist Conspiracies
  • Proving One Equals Two
  • Are You Looking At Me ?
  • The Big Brother Prison Cell
  • Testing the Nation to its Limits
  • TETRA : Public Safety or Public Risk
  • The Mobile Market - Success or Doom and Gloom ?
  • Mobile Phones - When the Chips are Down
  • Science, Giving Itself a Bad Name
  • WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
  • Just How Safe Are Our Nuclear Power Stations ?
  • Talking to the Animals
  • The Sandman Virus - You have now been warned
  • SimText Reduction of Language - What ?
  • The Effects of Magnetism on Memory
  • Alien Hand Syndrome
  • The Real Millennium Bug
  • Leap Years
  • Leap Seconds
  • Time Travel


    Loads of Lists  These pages uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE4 or IE5 to view these pages

    There are shopping lists, radio playlists and lists about almost anything these days. Here are some interesting lists from the Happy Hippy ...

  • Unusual Accident Causes
  • UK Earthquakes
  • Bio-Weapons
  • Countries Attacked by the USA since WWII
  • Bush's Axis of Evil Countries
  • GM Crop Trial Sites in the UK
  • Official UK Cities
  • Major UK Rail Crashes
  • Weird Words
  • Books of The Bible
  • Cable Television contacts
  • The Continents
  • Roman Catholic Popes
  • Egyptian Gods
  • Famous Dogs ( Chinese Horoscope )
  • Famous Scorpios
  • Greek Gods of Mythology
  • International Currency Codes
  • Internet Country Codes
  • The Labours of Hercules
  • Leap Seconds
  • Measurement Conversion
  • Olympic Games Venues ( Summer )
  • Patron Saints ( Roman Catholic )
  • The Seven Deadly Sins
  • The Seven Wonders of The World
  • The Star Signs
  • Temperature Conversion
  • The Ten Commandments
  • The United Nations' Agencies
  • United Nations' Secretary Generals
  • Wedding Anniversaries


    Other interesting topics

    Well I think they're interesting topics. You'll just have to go and have a look and make your minds up for yourselves ...

  • What's this site about ?
  • Who writes all this stuff ?
  • Viewing this site - Non Internet Explorer 4.0 users
  • The New Millennium Site Style
  • Going Interactive
  • Why aren't there any graphics on this site ?
  • Self censorship
  • Hippy's Happy Active Channel

  • Other information about this site

  • Problems with Happy Hippy's web space provider


    Useful software hints

    If you are running an Internet server; you should make sure that it's RFC compliant, or you can't complain about other systems which aren't ...

  • As Evil as Bill Gates ?

    Got an old MS-DOS PC which you want to put on a network as a peer to peer file server, or want to run a web server ? Here's how ...

  • Networking MS-DOS PC's

    Looking for the elusive documentation for things no longer supported by Microsoft ?

  • Capturing AVI files using Visual Basic 3 - CAPWNDX.VBX

    Still looking for the ultimate programming language ?

  • Euphoria

    And if you think you'd like to start programming in Euphoria; what better way to start than participating in The Euphoria Pixel Bot Project

    Here are some, hopefully, useful tips and tricks that I've picked up during my life of programming ...

  • Long filenames in MS-DOS
  • Directory tree listings
  • 8-bit Multiplication Using Small Lookup Tables

    And for the JavaScript programmer; some useful FreeWare utility functions and some FreeWare examples of JavaScript code ...

  • Play Bombs ( a Mine Sweeper clone )  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • A Personality Profiler  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • A Noughts and Crosses / Tic-Tac-Toe game  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • A Cookie Editor  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • A Body Mass Index Calculator  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page

    And anyone writing a word processor will need ...

  • A dictionary of words

    If you thought text based adventure games were dead ...

  • The Wonderful World of Cavern


    Information on Electronics

    If you are interesting in electronics; these pages may be of some use to you ...

  • Variable Voltage Power Supply
  • Tech Toys - Affordable Embedded Development Systems
  • Semiconductor Logic Device Cross-Reference
  • The Myth of Memory Effect
  • Relative CPU Speeds
  • Hippy's Happy Resistor Calculator  This page uses JavaScript  You need Microsoft IE3, Netscape 4 or later versions to view this page
  • The E Series Resistor Values
  • The Common Zener Diode values
  • The Peritel SCART Connector
  • The Yuasa NP2.3-12 Sealed Rechargeable Lead-Acid Battery

    And for those interesting in the PICAXE Processor and the Basic Stamp ...

  • The PICAXE Processors - Remarkable Little Beasts

  • PICAXE News
  • PICAXE Questions and Answers
  • PICAXE Comparisons
  • PICAXE Pinouts
  • Serial Interfacing
  • Serial Interrupts
  • Infra-Red Interfacing
  • Wireless Interfacing
  • LCD Interfacing
  • Two-Wire LCD Interfacing
  • Code Optimisations, Tips and Tricks

  • The PICAXE Birthday Box Project
  • PICAXE Telephone Exchange Simulator

  • Build Your Own Basic Stamp
  • Making Music with the Basic Stamp


    About the Happy Hippy

    Oh no, it's the really sad part of a home page. Who am I ? What do I do ? What are my beliefs ? Well, here you are; some pretty mind-numbing stuff that you probably aren't that interested in anyway ...

  • Who is the Happy Hippy ?
  • Hippy's Happy CV
  • Trademarks belonging to The Happy Hippy

  • Hippy's Happy Diary
  • Projects Planned for 1999
  • Work To Do List

  • A Summary of 1999
  • A Summary of 1998

  • Hippy's Happy Christmas Present List

  • Hippy's Happy Web Cams
  • Hippy's Happy Wired Home


    Contact point

    If you have any comments that you wish to make about this web site or anything that you think I might be interested in; please do not hesitate to send an informative E-mail to ...

  • hippy@psynet.net

    If you wish to create a link to this site then please point your link to ...

  • www.psynet.net/hippy


    Other Sites

  • The Actual Zyra Website

    This eccentric and eclectic site contains information on a wealth of subjects and an encyclopaedic set of things linked together conceptually.

    www.zyra.org.uk






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    First published sometime before Monday the 21st of December, 1998
    Last upload was on Tuesday the 25th of January, 2005 at 12:27:17