Pointless archive

  1. I want this bag for storing computer cables

  2. The wide world of TCG card folders

  3. Dreadlock Holiday ♫

  4. Finding (digital) houndstooth

  5. Cold Lemonade

  6. Fun facts, aviation edition

  7. Sorry for the dupe

  8. I lodged my 2024-25 taxes, and Wi-Fi

  9. A wholistic spam review

  10. The Rubenerd Blog Quiz 2025

  11. Time in dreams

  12. Today is the Forth of the Forth

  13. NextDC’s S2 data centre has Stanley Parable vibes

  14. Reconciling… my brain!

  15. Wait, it’s the 31st of January!?

  16. Spreads I wouldn’t want on toast

  17. My fast food tier list

  18. Silly word search for 2025

  19. Gary Castle was tempted by clipboard parts

  20. Algae psychology

  21. The 003rd post with three-digit integers

  22. Things you’ll hopefully never need to use

  23. “Writing Month” so far

  24. There is no attribute HERF

  25. Another of those random question lists

  26. Scott

  27. Soap holder language

  28. Eight pointless facts about me

  29. Some fun little retro Mini Brands

  30. TM initialisms

  31. Some Olympic events I’d win

  32. Sorted Food questions for your dream meal

  33. A pointless A-Z of hypervisors and adjacent tech

  34. Foods that aren’t potato

  35. My own silly intercom glitch in the Matrix

  36. Numbers that don’t have nine in them

  37. This post went somewhere, then nowhere

  38. OpenZFS website buttons

  39. Some wood for Firefox

  40. Pieces of 8: BMCs

  41. Review of Titanic II

  42. Aren’t milkshakes mixed?

  43. Things you shouldn’t sit on

  44. A non-exhaustive list of HPs

  45. Missing my 876-page milestone

  46. Spelling misatkes (cough)

  47. Three legs

  48. Eighth of the eighth, 2023

  49. Twitter renaming to X

  50. If you come to a fork in the road

  51. Fun Facts #101–110

  52. My second YouTube video in 14 years: Dr. Coffee

  53. USB 1.1 Alien Tape Megasaur Spurtles

  54. Loading your website experience

  55. I didn’t know Einstein was real

  56. Things that aren’t orchestration toolchains

  57. Exciting new look, same great taste!

  58. “The optics are better at the front”

  59. Words not starting with specific letters

  60. A phantom text buffer

  61. Towns that sound like toothpaste

  62. Obsolete tech: the Battery Daddy

  63. King CallMeKevin is a military genius

  64. This driver must get around

  65. Single greatest piece of spam I’ve ever received

  66. It’s three months until Christmas

  67. Today’s spam: customers have tills?

  68. It’s the first of September already

  69. Unproductive beverage adventures

  70. A lot happening in this lift

  71. Numbers that don’t have eight in them

  72. B-words that are a letter off another

  73. The reason Linux something something

  74. Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

  75. Uses for tangled earbud cables

  76. July doesn’t feel like the seventh month

  77. Vintage social network sentences

  78. Groucho Marx’s literary review

  79. “Sexy cosplay” spam

  80. A numbered list of encountered tech

  81. Some useful tips

  82. This post only has the word “bagel”

  83. Shopping MallDova

  84. Beginning Pokémon Brilliant Diamond

  85. They foyer of One Canada Square

  86. I knew a guy, he called it shut put

  87. Bear identification

  88. Robbie Williams: Bodies

  89. A 1 TB DIMM, with a clock speed of 2!

  90. Something incoherent for the week’s end

  91. The monkey grabbed his neck and said “Now listen, jack!”

  92. It started as a post about game machine language

  93. Missing things in our home

  94. Robbie Williams, Good Doctor

  95. Geri Halliwell on material science

  96. Stepping into an alternative dimensional floor

  97. What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc

  98. JJ Kale

  99. Comestibles containing holes

  100. The ten important things about blah

  101. Rhyming socks

  102. We’ll party like post alone!

  103. An updated clearance sign

  104. Talking about chips

  105. Acronym Finder isn’t one

  106. Spelling mistakes for week 48, 2020

  107. It also has numbers in it

  108. Some more spelling corrections

  109. Irrational things I still do with computers

  110. $100 million on your first letter

  111. Writing without backpacks or spaces

  112. Lesson 11 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  113. San Francisco Muni: Two Car, Shovel

  114. Spellging mistaes for this week

  115. Rhett and Link on baking gastronomy

  116. Plumbing drafts: Now

  117. Type fast and break prose

  118. The Cayenne Convection Oven

  119. Simpson Strong Tie Set Xp Msds

  120. Pointless Rubenerd stats: The

  121. It has numbers in them

  122. Publuc keys

  123. Even more sign generator planes

  124. More sign generator planes

  125. Airline Sign Generator

  126. Scalars greater than 2

  127. 2018-08-08 08:08:08

  128. Bathroom observations

  129. Ridding myself of vices

  130. Hall and Oats epiphanies

  131. Listerine mouth wash taste guide

  132. Songs with the word ceiling in their title

  133. Hackensack text clipping

  134. Pointless list #1: People I like and dislike

  135. Motor racing shopping trolley

  136. The NSG uClean LD-1420 HMT

  137. Sell or promote spam

  138. Collecting American licence plates

  139. USB aquarium alarm clock pen holder light

  140. Lesson 10 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  141. It’s 7-11

  142. Boxed–up posts

  143. Pointless Rubenerd post stats

  144. Eye on Springfield

  145. Cloud storage arrays

  146. A quadratic Beatles moment

  147. One does not simply network meme

  148. I don’t always make lame networking memes

  149. This isn’t about the Cisco 2800 router series

  150. NoScript Christmas hat!

  151. #Anime Gesundheit Chitanda~

  152. Why I shouldn’t write nonsense at 01:00

  153. Possibly the greatest image of all time

  154. Today on #PunWatch: Stone

  155. Trains Ruben Taketh #adayinthelifeApril2

  156. What does Ruben look like?

  157. #Anime Alternate Black Rock Shooter plot

  158. Leap Day 2012, now with more nostalgia!

  159. Second only to Synecdoche

  160. Today on #PunWatch: German typos

  161. Today on #PunWatch: Currency

  162. Pointless post #4300 celebrations!

  163. Our dog Tiger trying to nom pizza

  164. Today on #PunWatch: Cider

  165. Today on #PunWatch: Golfers

  166. Today on #PunWatch: ATM skimmers

  167. #Anime FateJazz: Fund it!

  168. BREAKING: I finally cleaned my desk!

  169. A very Janeway Christmas

  170. Hey, that plane is smiling!

  171. A Cup of Joe

  172. Rubenerd Fun Facts #100

  173. All study, no play makes Ruben CSMA/CA

  174. System Nuakend?

  175. #Anime OMG… it’s a pyramid!

  176. Clari-throm-ycin

  177. Not sure if I have one of them Kindles

  178. Emergency snow heels are for emergencies

  179. Made one of them Japanese eel things

  180. #Anime Completely useless Guilty Crown post

  181. Victorian Gaming Minister O’Brien has a dumb haircut

  182. Headaches are

  183. Finally, a useful CAPTCHA

  184. #Anime Can I have one too please?

  185. TPG in SG, FYI

  186. Gerontology consultants

  187. My Harry Potter house

  188. Smooth Jazz Nyan Cat

  189. #Anime Croque-Monsieur Coquettishness?

  190. Concerned about protecting your PC files?

  191. #Anime And I’m really enjoying this… iced cream

  192. Best. Scene change. Ever.

  193. #Anime Spot the difference!

  194. #Anime Is it green yet!?

  195. #Anime Azusandwich

  196. Post ID 8555 pointlessness

  197. Maroon 5 local drive (hey I made a rhyme!)

  198. Even their hair is kinda the same!

  199. The Great Money Caper

  200. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 11

  201. After 6 years, Rubenerd Purple is back!

  202. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 10

  203. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 09

  204. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 08

  205. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 07

  206. Ruben’s IMDB Top 250

  207. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 06

  208. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 05

  209. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 04

  210. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 03

  211. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 02

  212. Ben Sidran’s Cool Paradise, track 01

  213. No April Fools posts from me

  214. The Tennant 3400 for post 3400

  215. CityRail coin sneakyness

  216. Super creepy train ride of doom

  217. Microsoft Big W for Mac 2011

  218. #Anime Ijima-sensei in three screenshots

  219. 3333 posts!

  220. How I choose music

  221. What’s with all the Zune spam?!

  222. He seems legit

  223. WordPress ID 8000 celebrations!

  224. February 2011’s pointless sidebar picture!

  225. #Anime Which is a better Firefox mascot?

  226. Pass the… rushempeng?

  227. When superfluous instructions attack

  228. Another sophisticated cooling solution

  229. Maintaining my spelling

  230. Barbara Streisand

  231. You’re probably right, Matz

  232. My new years resolution

  233. What is this Australia I do not even

  234. #Anime Yule background fun

  235. Hey, its a new theme thing

  236. ConyoWest!

  237. A weekend without checking email

  238. Rubenerd Fun Fact #98 and #99: Robert Frost

  239. #Anime Why Ritsu and Mio are awesome

  240. Give Ruben an Internet

  241. Flight of the Murray Photoshoppers

  242. Started as a post on a tethered iTelephone

  243. Okay okay, I’ll start using Ruby again!

  244. Status update and all that

  245. A catch up post with a series of nothings

  246. A Sunday post: Hotlinking Ron Guenther

  247. Rubenerd Fun Fact #96 and #97: Santana

  248. #Anime Does [K-On] really warrant 3 seasons?

  249. Bad New Zealand food puns

  250. Fricken packing and fricken word hecks

  251. An Irish sandwich refuge in Singapore

  252. #Anime The cutest hotlink image?

  253. #Anime Haruhi for Prime Minister

  254. Mr Tea

  255. #Anime I may be able to restore my blog!

  256. Are these two stories somehow related?

  257. Jim Kloss woke me up this morning

  258. #Anime Sailor Kyonko, Sailor Rubenko

  259. Netscape icon swap nostalgia

  260. Number syncronicities and pointlessness

  261. Rubenérd Fun Fact #95

  262. Mayday! Mayday! Get it? Get it?

  263. #Anime Ow! My earrings are poking me!

  264. Rubenerd Fun Fact #94

  265. #Anime Tomoya in the Sky with Arrows

  266. Celebrating 2800 posts with shinyness

  267. The real folks who should buy Palm

  268. A Dodge? You know I only drive Acuras!

  269. #Anime No Shine without Mugi

  270. Does April Fool’s have a Boxing Day?

  271. Tomato sauce spelling

  272. #Anime It started as a Senjoughara figure post

  273. Impulsive Futurama boots

  274. A 2700 Rubenerd pointless milestone!

  275. Rubenerd Fun Fact #93

  276. New Bus Eireann site review thingy

  277. Ruby on Rails > Django in one respect…

  278. Diagram that made sense when I made it

  279. What’s a Mall Et?

  280. Don’t read this, read Josh Nunn’s Geekorium

  281. #Anime Mugi can’t figure out the iPad

  282. Beware the wrath of @DaveWiner !

  283. Tcsh telling me DING!

  284. If I had a diary, this hiatus post would go there

  285. My 3rd Twitter anniversary today

  286. The greatest CD cover of all time?

  287. #Anime Some philosophical cosplay quandries!

  288. Ruining people’s Google Reader feeds

  289. A 2600 Rubenerd pointless milestone!

  290. You can’t ignore Tim Blair’s blog

  291. Things you might not know about Microsoft

  292. Pretending to be funny at 0230

  293. #Anime Sailor Mercury as a transparent PNG

  294. Steve Ballmer takes on a meme

  295. Rubenerd Fun Fact #92

  296. My World’s Smallest Political Quiz results

  297. Chrysler, Toyota, Dodge, acceleration, lists

  298. Feeling fine, thought you’d want to know

  299. Rubenerd Fun Fact #91

  300. Macho dignity email spam

  301. When truncation attacks

  302. Can you print a blank page?

  303. #Anime The K-ON! girls being sweet

  304. Heeeeeeeee’s back!

  305. Escape to the Country on 7Two

  306. Late November night ruminations

  307. Horizontal remote controls anyone?

  308. #Anime Fun Fact #01

  309. Big game Simpson fever

  310. Rubenerd Fun Fact #90

  311. Friday night shell adventure

  312. Rubenerd Fun Fact #89

  313. Esoteric spam that serves no purpose

  314. Fitting all of Brunei into a museum!

  315. Rubenerd Fun Fact #88

  316. Jiggly… puff!

  317. #Anime Akiyama Mio and her house

  318. #Anime Puhi~ Puhi~!

  319. Rubenerd Fun Fact #87

  320. Different songs with same name #1

  321. The word sneeze has three e’s in it

  322. Wearing a hat

  323. Pointless hayfever rambling to feel better

  324. #Anime Haruhi Dango Dango Dango

  325. DOS nostaligia post with links and no point

  326. This car is Epic As

  327. Rubenerd Fun Fact #86

  328. Yerevan’s spiffy new Zvartnots Airport

  329. BREAKING NEWS: Something has happened

  330. A particularly ironic error message

  331. #Anime What are they looking at?

  332. Cute if stereotypical French smilie

  333. Rubenerd Fun Fact #85

  334. That reminds me, better wake up Green Day

  335. TNG planet graphics

  336. Java telling us The Tale of Alan A’Dale

  337. Rubenerd Fun Fact #84

  338. I don’t need no stinkin FormSpring

  339. Rubenerd Fun Fact #83

  340. This Mac doesn’t like him? Ack, Johnson!

  341. Jean Luc Picard on Data’s name

  342. Rubenerd Fun Fact #82 Spanish homes

  343. Programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas

  344. My Adelaide Fringe poster design

  345. Launch of Rubenérd Incorporated

  346. A philosophical shower quandary

  347. Eat Britain!

  348. Reminding myself I’m alive at least!

  349. Lesson 9 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  350. Rubenerd Fun Fact #81

  351. Logos and Java classes for Java classes

  352. #Anime Know your Akiyama Mio moods II

  353. Fatboy Slim on the Rubenerd Blog

  354. Rubenerd Fun Fact #80

  355. 2009 Wordle for 2009

  356. 2000 posts and a TweetDeck desktop!

  357. Rubenerd Fun Fact #79

  358. Interesting Gnome sorting

  359. Nostalgia for the 1990s

  360. Rubenerd Blog reached then 1980s!

  361. #Anime Know your Akiyama Mio moods

  362. The Simpsons on feeding goats

  363. Message in a Bottle #SongsInCode

  364. #SongsInCode

  365. Rubenerd Fun Fact #78

  366. How to fail at girls, featuring Zombie Plan

  367. Twitter is a place of great [t]wit!

  368. Tokiha Mai mocking my messy room

  369. Some fun Friday evening philosophy

  370. #Anime Akiyama Mio just a moeblob… so?

  371. Rubenerd Fun Fact #77: Shane Rogers

  372. Westpac’s bold new advertising campaign

  373. #Anime Know your Senjougahara Hitagi moods II

  374. On Tim Berners-Lee and URI hacks

  375. #Anime Quick question for Yoko

  376. I didn’t follow my 1900th post’s advice

  377. #Anime Know your Senjougahara Hitagi moods

  378. Rubenerd Fun Fact #76

  379. Celebrating 1,888 posts!

  380. Richard Dawkins, Memes, #ProductNose

  381. 18,000 tweets and all that

  382. Rubenerd Fun Fact #75: Peanut butter

  383. Grilled cheese object reference diagrams

  384. Rubenerd Fun Fact #74: Bill Maher

  385. Songs with B words in them

  386. Not blogging about not blogging

  387. Saturday night foodstuff philosophy

  388. Removing Categories from WordPress URIs

  389. Rubenerd Fun Fact #73

  390. Adding my Twitter account to WeFollow

  391. 64bit FreeBSD Commander Keen

  392. @WomanwithBite versus @Rubenerd and co!

  393. Back in Singapore… again

  394. On online mail, email and mail online

  395. Officially the greatest video of all time!

  396. Rediscovering the wonders of fabric softener

  397. The Jimbo and Ned Show

  398. Don’t think ambidextrousness is a word

  399. WordPress category URI conundrum

  400. Don’t write blog posts at 01:30am

  401. Don’t look now, it’s a useless 1666 post!

  402. Ten more Rubenerd Fun Facts!

  403. Rukia can’t hear you over her bread rolls

  404. Karen Collins shooting Jim on Whole Wheat Radio

  405. Quiz says I have a Northeast American accent

  406. Should blog posts be treated as time capsules?

  407. Using Herrie to listen to Whole Wheat Radio

  408. Happy May, again!

  409. Lesson eight in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  410. Tee hee, 1337

  411. Aux Champs-Elysées? Oui!

  412. They have Google in English now?

  413. WordPress post ID 4000 celebration

  414. Review of Living Social top five lists

  415. Reading Google Reader in the dark on Linux, BSD

  416. Lesson 7 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  417. Lesson 6 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  418. Pointless post 1234 milestone celebration

  419. J-Walk’s sinister plan to harvest personal information

  420. Ten fresh Rubenerd fun facts!

  421. Cute uninteded political commentary in my CSS

  422. Blatently fabricated Boston Legal quote

  423. Pointless observation regarding palindromic numbers

  424. Can Simoleons be exchanged on the forex market?

  425. The Black Suits Comin’

  426. Sunday afternoon post: Using my sister’s MacBook

  427. I’m not Bill Kurtis and other observations

  428. My revised lyrics for Surfin USA

  429. A hard hitting and relevent post

  430. Passing 10,000 Last.fm plays

  431. A ridiculously pointless 1111 post celebration

  432. On Rambling, Tanglin Mall, Nikon D90s

  433. Chicken soup, a nice thick blanket and a book of cliches

  434. Oh no, it’s an Adelaide rambling post!

  435. Text message insight philosophy

  436. Canada and Australia are kinda similar, eh, mate

  437. Lesson 5 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  438. Never thought I’d have 1000 posts!

  439. Lesson 4 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  440. Lesson 3 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  441. Rubenerd Blog October 2008 rambling summary

  442. Ominous post numbers are ominous

  443. Lesson 2 in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  444. This useless 810th post has the ID 1337

  445. A lesson in grilled cheese sandwich observation

  446. The Boeing 777 for the 777th post

  447. Boeing 767 for post 767

  448. Boeing 757 for post 757

  449. Zhang Xuan painter post

  450. 747 post, bad taking off pun

  451. 737 posts, bad taking off pun

  452. Useless post 700 post milestone post

  453. The super wicked evil 666 post!

  454. 1000 Rubenerd musings!

  455. Pointless PhotoBooth at 0200

  456. New Salsa Purchased

  457. The American World