Been up snowden, and been to the Birmingham Motor show this weekend! Loadsa pics at joshwaller.tk

Weebl and Bob - pikea go to pikea. best ever weebl and bob?

DigiCamReview.co.uk a bargain to be had at PC World, plus some "new" cameras that only Dixons/PCWorld seem to sell.

Petrol prices have been going up, so someone somewhere via chain email has had this idea, boycott Esso and BP (the big boys), and they'll reduce their prices. (thus making everybody else reduce their prices). Yeah sure, asif used to go to my school. Anyway, it's the government that put all the TAX on petrol, so therefore it's the governments fault, not the petrol companies.

>It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons (75p)Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso.

Canon Powershot A70. at Argos.co.uk £149 Argos of all places.

Revels Chocolate available with worldwide postage - Revels: They're a surprise in your mouth, sometimes a nice surprise, and sometimes a crappy coffee/orange / toffee break your teeth surprise. My verdict: not worth the risk!

Blogger Knowledge er perhaps i've misunderstood this, but according to blogger, you can get FREE UNLIMITED photo hosting / blogging from them!

Pretec 12 GB CF - just $14,900: Digital Photography Review CRIKEY! 12GB Compact Flash cards are gonna be available soon! - see digicamreview.co.uk for more news. (eg CASIO QV-R40 review at joshwaller.tk)

MS UK 0wn3d again"....equivalent of urinating on Microsoft's back porch."

:... illegal online music downloads have declined and sales of CDs have tripled in the first quarter of 2004 in comparison with the first quarter of 2003."

Linux creator unveils a way to track who wrote what code interesting stuff here.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Nintendo 'fears for games industry' what do you think of the new Nintendo DS?

have you seen our new kitten yet? see joshwaller.tk for more pics :)

eBay item 3482566182 (Ends 27-May-04 19:30:00 BST) - VIA EPIA MINI-ITX MII-10000 MOTHERBOARD BOXED anyone wanna buy an epia m2-10000?

BBC NEWS | England | Somerset | Resident cleans up his street act

BBC NEWS | Health | Woman 'overdoses' on liquorice: "Pontefract cake" you can't have you cake and eat it. Everybodys Favourite Sweets.

The Tech Report - There is no dash in "The Tech Report", dag nabbit!: "Just when you thought it was safe to run a Mac, along comes a serious security flaw in OS X. The vulnerability, first reported to Apple in February, but not made public until this week, already has several working exploits and is considered by some to be 'extremely critical'. With a carefully crafted website, a motivated individual can install and execute malicious programs and scripts, by taking advantage of web browsers using the operating system's calls for handling URLs (paths such as 'http:', 'ftp:', etc.). The article provides a workaround for the problem, but Apple has not yet released a fix." - Those are the same words they use when talking about windows...

eBay item digital CAMERA 32 X ZOOM 8.0 MEGA PIXEL the strange 8x optical (4mp?) MAGXON C480 (perhaps it's the same as the Kopin AX480. Plus there's some bargains to be had on ebay if you've got your wits about you: like this 3mp, 2x optical digital camera that went for 36quid!! - just bid in the last 20 seconds :)

IWILL Creative Form Factor wow - dual opteron in a SFF

Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - The Infinite Cat Project - Slide #15 - Eunheui perhaps this is?

He had a good life holy cow - is this the best thing ever?

VIA EPIA MII-12000 reviews at: Sudhian Media, Mini-itx.com and epiacenter.com (soon!). It's the fastest EPIA system yet, with a 1.2GHz CPU, and an updated security system.

Dixons Olympus D390 (the american name for the C-150) - entering the code '20offolympus' should get you �20 off the olympus. I tried this camera out and wasn't very impressed by it however, so I wouldn't personally recommend it, plus it's due on the 20th May - but I still haven't received the Casio from dixons yet!

Apple Quicktake 200 Digital Camera Boxed & complete a part of apple history going cheap on ebay (it was a rebadged Fuji DS7)

The Tech Report - PearPC bears fruit PearPC lets you run PowerPC software on the PC, such as OS X!

assuming house prices continue to rise, so that no one in their 20s can afford new houses.. surely that means only dead peoples houses will be affordable.. what are the mathematical logical consequences?
a) people who have houses will buy second homes (and rent them)
b) eventually 1/2 the population will be retired and the other half will be renting properties off them.
c) ???
d) profit.

DigiCamReview.co.uk - Hi I've set up a new site, called DigiCamReview.co.uk, so far with news, links etc all about digital cameras, it will probably have some reviews there soon and more stuff as time goes by, feel free to check it out, and link to it :)

keira, a mate of ours, has setup a new funky blog. email your wedding application forms to me and i'll pass them on ;) keira's site.

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Save Karyn's' charity payback Got debt - just setup a website and ask other people to pay for your stupidity. Fantastic!

Potatoes mp3 400k... angry alien - the shining by bunnies, in 30 seconds. (probably funnier if you've seen it).

computers. i hate them. scenario: upgrade windows98 pc to windows2000. insert w2k cd, wait 1hour. try running office 2000 / outlook after upgrade. it says 'sorry we need to reconfigure office because you've upgraded from windows 95/98 - please insert your office 2000 premium cd' so you insert the cd, it says 'sorry that's not an office 2000 premium cd' when in fact IT IS!! okay, so you try to uninstall office 2000 - it won't let you! - so you use the microsoft clean up utility to uninstall office 2000 - then reinstall office 2000 - then try again, it says the same, 'sorry we need to reconfigure office because you've upgraded from windows 95/98 - please insert your office 2000 premium cd' - okay so you log on as the admin again, uninstall office 2k with the clean up utility, delete the whole office 2000 folder, then reinstall office 2000... finally an hour later, you run outlook and it works, it still says 'you've upgraded... please insert the cd...' but this time it accepts it... then you think, fantastic! so you log off and then log on again as the user... only to be told 'sorry we need to reconfigure office because you've upgraded from windows 95/98 - please insert your office 2000 premium cd' then when you insert the cd that you've just used to reinstall office for the 2nd time it says "SORRY - THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT CD!!!"!!!! AAAARRRGGHHH!!!

On average, a Belfast worker earns 26,005 euro while his Dublin counterpart gets 44,014 euro.

Slashdot | Freecache of your large files. fabbo.

BBC NEWS | Magazine | In cyberspace, can anyone hear you pray?

Breaking news! Giant Crisp eaten by Josh in the afternoon. The Thai Sweet Chicken flavour crisp was found in a standard packet of McCoy's Spice potato chips. "Bloody hell!" is what one passer by had to say about the giant sized crisp, others said "Have you seen the size of that crisp!?" in shock. Update D. Tunstall from KP Snacks had the following to say: "It would not be unusual for a larger than normal crisp to be in the packet if a large potato had been used so this can occasionally happen."

you know how they've made blogger better, well there's new templates too! check out bababa (here!)

excited horse bites pole to death

holy kack! blogger's completely different! plus they've got these profiles with all your stats etc.

AMD release new mobile Athlon 64 processors, AMD window opens as Intel Tejas closes, basically I think Intel are scrapping the P4 (and Xeon) in favour of the Pentium M core / dual Pentium M?

The Fuji A340, 4mp, 3x Opt - about £160 inc vat (or £153 on ebuyer.com), one of the cheapest new 4mp digital cameras from a proper manufacturer. Other bargain 4mp digital cameras: Olympus C450 around £140 (refurb?) (3x opt), Kodak DX6440 around £170 (4x opt)

ooh look. Mr Picassohead

Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind. It's basically a sentimental romantic "comedy" potentially a "dark" comedy but that's not it's main focus. It's a bit like memento, but not as dark, a bit like donnie darko but not as sci-fi or dark. It does get you thinking, but not too much, ie. you don't need to watch it again to figure it out, and it doesn't really make you want to watch it again to figure it out (like the orginal matrix, or memento). One of the main reasons why she did what she did is pretty weak explanation / reason, but that's not the important bit - although I was expecting a much darker reason. It kind of makes you appreciate what you've got, and the good times you have with people rather than all the petty things. There aren't really any deep and meaningful things or views that make you go "wow" apart from the general moral: "don't mess with science to erase people's memories / history as it messes people's lives up". It's good though, Jim Carrey acts very well, as does Kate Winslett. Frodo's in it as well, which is kinda funny.

BBC NEWS | England | London | Pastor convicted of sex attacks
I hadn't heard it had closed down. There is a whole load of trust placed on leadership that the money they're asking for is not just going toward their own pyramid scheme..

Sierra: Tribes Aerial Assault apparently tribes 1 and 2 are now free downloads!!

Sasser computer worm wriggles worldwide more than a million people have been infected with this. It's another tcp/ip scanning virus/worm much like Blaster / Welchia so it doesn't need email to spread. Here's a list of affected software plus the windows updates, and there's a removal tool here - the FBI are looking for the writer, whilst the BBC try and out-do each other with the use of old irrelevant photos. there's also a network scanner here that will tell you if machines are vulnerable to it. if that all sounds too heavy, why not look at The Sony EyeToy Webcam

To summarise: If you are having problems with your computer, and you think you may have the "sasser" worm, then:

1. Scan with the symantec removal tool, even if it doesn't find it (ie your computer doesn't have the worm) still follow the next steps:
2. Install the windows patch, plus to make sure you're protected from other worms etc, get all the updates from windowsupdate.microsoft.com and then restart
3. If you're still having problems, try the Mcafee Stinger, as this will check for all the other new viruses and worms going around. (such as Blaster, Welchia, Sasser etc)

Other things you need to do regardless of whether you've got a virus or not is: make sure your anti-virus software is up to date, if you don't have any get AVG for free (www.grisoft.com) and set it to auto-update. Keep checking windowsupdate.microsoft.com for updates, or set Windows to auto-update in the Control Panel (if you have the right version of windows), plus you should think about setting up a personal firewall, such as ZoneAlarm (free), or something similar, especially if you've got broadband etc.

ITS GRIM UP NORTH Lyrics - KLF: "Nelson,Colne,Burnley"..."Glossop,Hebden Bridge,It's Grim Up North,It's Grim Up North." Pure Class. JillaJang updated with some more photos of me as a kid (click "Josh's life photos").

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Our daily bread: "the secret of the longer-life loaf: It is sprayed on the outside with either sorbate or calcium propionate - both antifungal agents which inhibit the growth of moulds. This factory uses the former, but not on its own brands of loaf"

optical illusion, cows with guns (if you can get to the webpage!), annoying dot game, this guy has lots of photos plus a list of all his friends (he even has a link to jordoncooper, and a google tool, possibly even more useful stuff too), and i've put some more photos on my website.

If we can tag cats, lets get on and tag humans. Can it really cost as much as all this iris recognition, fussing about with cards that can be lost and all the data processing that's required??

BBC NEWS | Technology | When hi-tech meets high fantasy: "'We needed another 1,000 processors and we had nowhere to put them,' he said.
The answer was to build another data centre nearby, lay a 10gigabit per second cable to it to connect it to the other four and ask IBM to set up a production line just to build the computers Weta needed to stock it."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Hide-and-seek with mobiles : Does anyone remember some Channel4 tv proggy where people ran around the country not being caught.. this is different. Sounds a bit like playdays (where you go round the countryside spotting the pegs which have clues) but updated for the city.

Apple: the past 10 years and the quest for more developers.
- basically a big post about what could/should be done to make apple development more attractive to the rest of the world
- and the bit I thought was interesting, the mention that apple don't make low end computers and they don't have a 'simple' development environment for low cost software (ie; no visual Basic) although they could work harder on making python and other languages a fun to develop visual thingy.
- consequently, as the user base won't expand among the people who are 'the masses', and non-apple software is big and expensive and old.. the only new stuff will be dedicated translations of big [opensource] free software.
- but i am not a java programmer.

BBC NEWS | Health | Trucker creates anti-MRSA cream
HP 435, digital camera 3MP £51 these are normally £90 online. (not that i'd recommend this camera personally, as almost everything i've read about them online has been mostly negative about it) review, review.