Updated If you had �150 to spend on a digital camera, what would you get? Must have macro mode, and 3MP, 3X Optical would be good. Image quality is the most important thing though. (sound would be nice, but in this price range i don't think you'll find it... eg SONY P-72 is about �175 minimum)

Thinking the Olympus C-350 / D-560 Review (to americans) would be a good one, only �152 from amazon (with free delivery). Other alternate's are Fuji A303 (�159). Dunno what else for that price... found this new camera, 3mp, 4x optical, video and sound, 1.8" tft, macro Kodak DX6340 �159 inc postage amazon what do you think?

mini film recommendations / reviews: hot chick comedy, with "rob schnieder" - the guy that's always in adam sandler filums. he get's swapped into a girls body, and a girl gets swapped into his body. it also stars a girl that's in scary movie 3. it had me LAUGHING A LOT, very very very funny. RECOMMENDED.

dumb and dumberer comedy "prequil" to the original dumb and dumber. does not star the original actors. it's VERY funny, about them at school and has loads of cool stuff (like a mini school bus). RECOMMENDED!

Elf christmas comedy romantic thing. a human lives with elves then goes to find his real parents. quite a good film, bits of it are funny, and it's quite a nice film. Santa's in it.

Wired News: Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod

Yahoo! News - Woman Knocked Unconscious While Shopping: "Paramedics called to the store found VanLester unconscious on top of a DVD player, surrounded by shoppers seemingly oblivious to her, said Mark O'Keefe, a spokesman for EVAC Ambulance. "

sundissential got a pretty cool "rave" tune going on. do they still call stuff like that rave? or is it called something else now?

Well, incase anyone's interested, i've setup php on my webserver. php.php is the info page if you wanna have a look. havva look if you want there's nothing to see yet, as i haven't got "gallery" working / configured yet as i'm having problems... but if you've got any bright ideas, please let me know :) UPDATE! AHA! I've got it working check it out! - If you wanna know what it does, you basically upload your pics, it automatically resizes them and creates all the web pages for it, you just add comments, and click rotate where necessary, it is SOOO good!! PS - You can not beat a bit of Messiah, "Thunderdome", and "There is no law" :) And if you can beat it, I'd like to know how, yes perhaps with some stakker humanoid remixes, but really, now you're just getting pedantic :)

Release all EPIA motherboards into Distribution Petition In more crazy news, there's a petition for VIA to release the EPIA boards that normally only get released to big companies. There's a project here where the guy uses a peltier, and water cooling, to cool an epia800. This things can be passively cooled with just a normal big heatsink, so I really wonder why they did this? this guy want's more innovation in the pc sector.

num1000remix wooo some crazy ass japanese rave flash funked up thing. 4mb roughly and needs sound, well doesn't need sound but is better with sound. oh and here's a big spam map [845k]. this place has nice background wallpapers if you want em. "master" and "slave" names for "primary" and "secondary" drives etc deemed unnaceptable!!!

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Fasting fakir flummoxes physicians Doctors and experts are baffled by an Indian hermit who claims not to have eaten or drunk anything for several decades - but is still in perfect health.

Free Driving Game - Cookie Barz Armored Car - heliATTACK 2 - todays exciting activity was spilling a ful mug of black coffee all over myself! sbemail techno you can download the tune at the end!.

while randomly searching for work related stuff, i found this here. Here is just one image that made me laugh out loud when I finally got it.

mini racing game, remember duckhunt? this used to come with the light gun that you could get for the sega master system. war on terror a bit like that helicoptor game, but crapper (harder too) and slightly comical. atomic badger racing (use space bar for nitro and mouse button for bombs)

Slashdot | MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed "WCityMike writes "Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to CNet. However, they're not selling the approximately one million songs on the archive. (recorded by over 250,000 artists) Instead, they're simply destroying it as of December 3. MP3.com's founder and former CEO, Michael Robertson, is pleading with Vivendi to allow the Internet Archive to preserve the songs."

sweet ass g4 cube aquarium

00Apple - iMac New 20" iMAC!! �1749. (imac 15" from �999!!!) They still haven't realised the way to shift millions of iMacs is to get rid of the screen and sell them for less than the emac (�649), eg �499 would be a very good price for an entry level basic mac. they've released a dual 1.8GHz G5 as well (�1899)

Kazaa ads tell P2P users to speak up | CNET News.com "Imagine that, for the first time ever Kazaa has taken out print ads in popular magazines asking that you respect P2P users and quit treating them like pirates. There is a concept�NOT suing your fans."

pretty stupid flash thing, needs sound, and is better than other stupid flash things. (it's quite funny)

For those weirdo people out there who like to own rare apple stuff (namely matt) there's a rare 20th anniversary mac on ebay currently lots of money (�361) - more info. (personally i'd prefer one of these for much cheaper, or one of these MUCH cheaper.)

Updated my "IPEA Project" - mounted the switch and blue hard drive LED! It's also become my webserver! as it's small :) check it out at http://joshwaller.tk - it seems slightly faster - what do you reckon?

Chucking out some old computers the other day, we found a 386! with this "FPU chip" (Cyrix Fasmath Cx83D87-40GP from Nov 91/or 93 more info, better info?) add-on!! Looks like it was originally a bog-standard intel 386 40mhz computer, without the FPU, then later they may have added this chip to it... but what I want to know is: How could people have used computers so slow?!? I just don't get how it could be possible!

Wired News: Mac Supercomputer Joins Elite - Mac Supercomputer officially the 3rd fastest supercomputer, with 1,100 Dual 2GHz G5s. AMD at 6th place, with 1,408 Dual 2GHz Opterons.
UK Becomes Sixth Country to Implement EUCD "The UK, as of October 31, 2003, became the sixth nation to implement the laws required to comply with the European Union Copyright Directive with its Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 legislation." Does this effect us in anyway?
Brazil moves to open source, "Citing economic as well as social reasons, Brazil's government is opting to move away from Windows, opting instead for Open Source (read: Linux) solutions. Interestingly, Microsoft's representative in Brazil decries this as a movement away from freedom and choice..." Hmmm Microsoft are weirdos! IBM also moving away from Windows.
HP to release Athlon64 machines today apparently. Tech Report reviews the Opteron 248 (2.2GHz) chip here.

clmbine upd8 (chainmail version): Darrell Scott, a parent of one of the teens shot in the columbine killings..
There is a spiritual awakening-taking place that will not be squelched! We do not need more religion. We do not need more million dollar church buildings built while people with basic needs are being ignored. We do need a change of heart and a humble acknowledgment that this nation was founded on the principle of simple trust in God! reference columbine info from salon

There's been this ongoing argument about whether you can have a monument of the 10 commandments in a court building: Alabama Supreme Court's chief justice, Roy Moore Moore said "It's about whether or not you can acknowledge God as a source of our law and our liberty. That's all I've done."



The tenth commandment, they still have room to put 'thy neighbour's house, servant, ass or property'

strange news from japan: Japanese Jails funded by furniture sales

Project gigaQube | s h o n . o r g this dude upgrades an old computer with more ram and hard drive. pretty cool if ya ask me :) (they use one of those cobalt qubes)

more info on the qube made by "cobalt" who were bought by sun. specs and more info of the qube 2 (and 3) can be found here. (pretty cool site, webcam page is cool too - what's interesting is that he's hosting his own site with a 768/768k up/down connection)

Old skool hifi equipment used for a PC at EPIACENTER.com - worth just checking out to look at some old skool silver hifi like what dad kept buying for a while...

BBC NEWS | England | Gloucestershire | Father tells of motorway horror - what I don't understand, is why she wasn't locked inside the ambulance? Can any patient just open up the back doors of an ambulance and jump out if they feel like it?

Slashdot | Why Personal Websites Matter might be worth a read. Anyone else notice any interesting news stuff happening on the wibblewinterwebblewonderland?

Dell Ultra Sharp 18" TFT Flat Screen Monitor In Black - 3 Year Swap Out Warranty : DCS-1800FP : DCS 1800FP Wow, ultra sweet 18" TFT screen �316 inc vat. We got some of these at work, and they REALLY are Very nice! (cheapest alternative is the almost identical LG 18" TFT (silver) for �391 inc vat)

Its Thursday.. is it windy in Nelson?

Homestore Runner! anyone wanna get me a strong bad tee for christmas - strong bad rocks!

Slashdot | Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked Ha - remember the talk of stupid disposable digital cameras, well they've been hacked so you can get the images off! :)

UK employers get tough on Net abuse.

Josh have you read that ;) ?

- 21" monitor �40 !!!! AC Computer Warehouse (from Stockport)
- Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage get your latest ms patches. (from windowsupdate if you don't have autoupdates enabled)

- I don't know why you'd want this, but you can get MS Windows Media Player 9 for the MAC - what happened to all the other versions of Windows Media Player for the Mac, like 1, or 2, or X? Why don't they just start with a different number? Or is that too logical?

Cups of Tea and keyboards DO NOT MIX, so recommend me a keyboard: Rubber, waterproof keyboard, �18 (ebuyer clear �14 inc - this would be useful, just in case i spilt tea again!), keytronic (like IBM?) black �18, apple pro, white �49, coolermaster aluminium �27 I'd like one with some USB ports built in really, my keyboard was a microsoft natural pro thing (but they don't do it anymore), with 2 usb ports and ergonomic... alternate ergonomic keyboards: �29 belkin (inc 2 usb), cheap ergo �5, MS multi ergo �34 - does it have USB ports? (it has weird key layout though) alternatively - I could just getta free one from work...

- OS4 on tour south west you amiga people should go see the "new amiga, and os".
- tea review updated
- channel4.com - Games woohoo, new fun game found.
- Slashdot | Building a Budget Storage Server article at firingsquad, which involves $3500 and a 128mb 3D graphics card. (And the firingsquad site is blocked as it comes under "games")
- oooh ebuyer have the 1800mhz / 1.8GHz / 266MHz FSB Duron for �36 inc vat!! That sounds like a complete bargain to me!

Santa's bringing you spam for Christmas Christmas is coming and spammers want to fill your inbox with more messages than ever.

The Tech Report - UK bans PowerMac G5 ads ha ha ha!

'ear thez summat worng with me monitor, all me colourz are like faded and that, and sort of a yellowy greeny sort of colour when they should be orange, and therez not much contrast, and it only happens sometimes, like now on this page....

The Matrix III, Cons, boring predictable, could have written better dialogue myself, some lines were so obvious as to be funny, actually I laughed quite alot, sometimes on the inside, some times not. Oh was it not supposed to be a comedy, ahhh ok si-fi. Pros some good effects, better than The Matrix II more sifi.

Get out and see it.

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther - Page 3 - (11/2003): "Panther comes on four CDs: three discs for installing the OS and one disc containing the developer tools." crikey, that's a big install package.

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther - Page 5 - (11/2003): "But 'perceived performance' is where Mac OS X has always suffered. As far as the user experience is concerned, if it 'feels slow,' it is slow. Panther has improved here as well. I am hard-pressed to find any part of the user interface that does not feel noticeably faster in Panther than it does in Jaguar."

AppleInsider - Panther videos holy cow, check out the 3rd video on this page. WOW!

still on my never-ending quest to cure my dandruff and eyebrow dandruff, i've bought some "selsun" from the local asda pharmacy. i've figured that (in my opinion) t-gel, head & shoulders, vosene, and even nizoral does not work. the only problem with the selsun stuff, is that apparently selsun blue does work, but i don't have selsun blue, i've got just "selsun" and it's sort of creamy beige coloured, and it smells nice and washes my hair well, but i need to blue smelly stuff that doesn't wash hair well. and a new thing i've discovered, if i leave my beard / stuble to grow into a proper beard for too long, i end up with beard dandruff!! man! it just gets worse and worse!

tried to make site more "washed-out" / old faulty monitor (amber) ish looking. it's still too bright and contrasty :) and could probably do with some kind of background image that looks like those faulty lines you sometimes get on faulty monitors. edit ooh - found a really cool colour scheme website.

Mini Film Reviews: (available from your local blockbuster on dvd/vid)

"igby goes down" tragic "comedy". about a rich teenage american with a messed up family and his sucky life. fairly dull, not much empathy, or character sympathy, not hilariously funny, a bit sad. it's sort of like a "black comedy" but nowhere near as good as other films.

"hope springs" romantic comedy. british chap goes to america to get away from his fiance who's just dumped him for another man. quite funny, entertaining, quite good overall.

"a guy thing" comedy romance. guy has a bachelor party (stag do), sleeps with another woman (not his fiance). very funny film, with quite a lot of LOLs. Yes some bits are slightly predictable (aren't all films) but it's funny, and nice. recommended. (ps - some / well one of the deleted scenes is absolutely hilarious!!)

Popular Science | The Worst Jobs in Science read it :)

Did anyone see the lunar eclipse last night? here's some pics. man i regret not seeing it. doh!

there's a new version of winamp out, called winamp 5. someone obviously forgot how to count. but someone said it was winamp 2 + 3, dunno, anyway, why do they run 2 versions of winamp simultaneously? (it's proper messed up i tell ya, winamp 2.91 is newer than winamp 3!) get winamp5 here. winamp 2 is better than winamp 3, so i wonder whether winamp5 fixes that.

Pifast Challenge 2.9GHz Athlon 64, beats a 4.8GHz P4. what does this mean? well it means, if we round the figures, the Athlon 64 beats the P4, even when the P4 is 2GHz faster than the Athlon 64! It also tells us that some people out there have some REDICULOUSLY fast PCS!!

dual p3-500 machine: have a look here.

Wilkinson Sword | Get Ready...for the WORLD's FIRST 4 BLADE RAZOR! do we really need 4 blades? i'd rather have gillette's 3 blades that actually let the hair go through the other side, rather than get clogged up in a wilkinson sword razor...

Google Deskbar like the google toolbar, but it sits on your taskbar instead. Ever wondered what an Excelstor CT210 looks like? have a look at one here.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Games at work may be good for you woohoo! just wish bosses would start realising, the happier the worker, the more productive the worker. so things like banning games, banning hotmail and restricting internet access, is actually counter-productive.

orange concorde seats, 2
"black" box flight recorder, as used in the paris crash and accompanying manuals,
"Indicator M6001A" all I know abou this is that it has an orange screen and has no reserve, so could be a bargain.

AnandTech: Voodoo Envy M:855 Part 1 - Athlon 64 DTR and Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro surprisingly a Pentium-M 1.7GHz is as fast as a P4 3GHz chip! and the P-M is in a laptop! (Anandtech review the 64-bit Athlon laptop)

free advertising for gamers "super fast" P4 when AMD is quicker.

whatever you do, don't read the review of the 3rd matrix at news.bbc.co.uk - it's got major spoilers in, including the end of the film!! GRRR!!

Apple 'disappointing and dishonest' says developer er, isn't this just the same as alt-tabbing in windows?

haloscan are letting people sign up for their comments system if you fancy changing it matt? on the subject of dead websites, i've updated tea review with a comments system from haloscan and a post! wahey! i always prefered haloscan to be honest :) also jillajang was updated last night.

The Tech Report - Web sites neglected with reckless abandon "could become a huge problem." hmmm... how? the actual cnn article is more interesting. in a dramatic voice they proclaim:

Her site remains frozen in time.

man that is so old skool, i remember doing a hard drive window mod about a year ago, and even then it was so last year, anyway if you can't be bothered coz you're way too hip to do your own, you can watch a vid of someone elses hd in action.

ExcelStor Technology on the warranty page say "Warranty is typically voided on defective drives under the following conditions:" one of them being "8. Normal wear and tear" HUH!?! Am I interpreting this the wrong way, or are they saying: By using your hard drive, under normal use, you are voiding your warranty? If it goes faulty, under normal use, then your warranty is voided?

I'm surprised the wheels can take so much weight! Check it out, each video clip is about 500k.

More local (local-ish to me anyway) shootings: BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Girl, 6, hurt in shooting Not as local as previously though.

"I feel as happy as a pig in mud" more freaky people over here (pics seem slightly out of date)

I believe american copyright law has been changed to permit "computer programs and video games distributed in formats now obsolete" to be copied. Which means romcarts and tape can be copied. maybe... maybe not

Update your anti-virus software : nasty new virus. IF you do not have some anti-virus software, then get some NOW from grisoft.com for FREE! If you decide, "no I don't need anti-virus software on my pc" then YOU ARE AN IDIOT!

Has anyone else got a weird email from yahoo recently?

It says:
Click the link below to verify your email address and activate your account. Email verification helps protect your identity and allows you to participate safely on all of Yahoo!'s properties.

Important! Click here to activate your new account.

Your Yahoo! ID: goshwa_goshwa
Your email address: goshwa@hotmail.com
I haven't signed up with a goshwa_goshwa yahoo id, and why would i register my hotmail address with them - it seems weird?

anglicans and methodists agree to a truce over a 200 year dispute about the wearing of beards.

quite exciting development in transplantation drug development. here
Monkeys have the right to healthy transplants too.

Cool lights in the sky:
The magnetic storms have forced air traffic controllers to alter some transatlantic flight plans. The US Federal Aviation Administration has also warned air passengers about increased radiation, according to the New York Times. People flying above 25,000 feet will be exposed to the equivalent of two days of ground radiation for every hour they travel above 35� North, the FAA said.

Toshiba Tecra 8000 Laptop P2-300 6.1GB 192MB 13.1TFT on ebay.co.uk