I don't think the mainland has anything quite as exciting:
Ballycastle fair
.. The latest attraction is dulse cheese ..
And there is a singing priest..

avoid microland technology like the plague: Microland Technology UK - Worst Company Ever Award

BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple shows off new iMac in Paris
CNet news : Apple unveils new G5 iMac
Apple said the iMac G5 will begin shipping worldwide in mid-September, at prices ranging between $1,299 and $1,899 each more details at apple. 256mb(!) as standard on ALL models / surely it'd only cost them another $20 to make it 512mb!

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Berlin bear's break-out bid fails

kids go for the white stuff (iPods and DVD players, rather than bikes and rollerblades)
World Bog Snorkelling Championships: Philip John wins first prize of a year's supply of ice cream courtesy of Ben and Jerry's
also flat panel iMacs are out now.

Roast Duck
"We were waving our arms and jumping around to a Christian rock group called Delirious... then you could feel the seats vibrating.
"All of a sudden the seats vanished," said Mr Cuthbert, who was sitting nearby but not injured.
.. pretty self explanatory ;-) Delirious Rocks.

dp-now.com - Features - Printer reviews - Epson PictureMate "Epson's new £149 PictureMate Personal Photo Lab is a single-size (6x4 inches) ink-jet photo printer that promises fade-resistant colour photo prints for about 29p a go." Are photo printers a waste of money? This one gives you prints for 29p a go... others give you prints for abotut 40p a go - and that's excluding the initial cost for the printer (eg £149!) - plus you get prints that are 6x4 when all your digital photos would fit on 6x4.5 better. When you can get prints for 15p each from www.photobox.co.uk or 50prints for £5 from some places - why would anyone want to print their own photos at home? (it's not for speed, as this epson takes 2 minutes per photo)

found this over here. can't seem to get it working right now though.

ecotonoha (found at waving at myself), sounds a bit like like Eketahuna / (found here)

Films:

Taxi Driver - very good (classic)
Starsky and Hutch - very good / funny
Xmen 2 - quite good (but it was the 4th film today so wasn't as switched on by then)
Lilo & Stitch - very good / emotional
The Recruit - Very good
DareDevil - quite good
Blue Streak - quite good / funny

Anyone care to recommend some films I should watch? also why not check out my latest review on digicamreview.co.uk.

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Athlon XP Multiplier Adjustments on the fly from Windows just colour in some bridges trick your cpu into thinking its a mobile and bingo multiplier adjustments from software. Also your can tell your cpu its a MP for dual use.

Works with : Palomino, Morgan, Thoroughbred, Barton and also Applebred and Thorton (those last two are just Thoroughbred / Barton with disabled part of L2 cache).

cheapest pc?
£399 hp 2.5ghz, 40gb/256mb, dvd/cdr, 17inch crt
£299 albacomp 2440: 2.4ghz, 40gb/128mb, 17inch crt, DVD

Fat Fingers "Thousands of items on eBay are listed with misspelled descriptions. - These items often expire with no bids on them as no-one can find them. - Type in a keyword below and click the Generate button - Then click the link and uncover those hidden gems..."

photobox.co.uk register, use the code "WDCFREETRIAL" and get 15 free prints delivered to your door (including free postage). (courtesy of what digital camera). Amazon.co.uk have the Premier DC5331 Digital Camera [5MP 3xOptical] for £149, which is the same as the BENQ DC C50 I reviewed here.

Josh should get the following in Singapore:

Konica Minolta Dimage Z3 (4mp, 12x opt, Anti-shake)Canon Powershot S1 IS (3mp, 10x, image stabilisation)Panasonic Lumix FZ3 (3mp, 12x, image stabilisation)Other (cheaper)

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More info: Canon S1 IS Review (uk price £300), Konica Minolta Dimage Z3 (uk price £270), Fz3 (no review yet on-line, price unknown), other(s): don't have image stabilisation which means you will get blurry pics when using 10x optical zoom in cloudy lighting.

blogcount apparently 3.5million blogs. take a long time to look at them all. have you noticed the new bar up there ^ ? kinda annoying - but some other people have managed to change the colours so it matches their site better - anyone know how to do that? plus it covera up the logo mat made! innit - i suppose the bar at the top is better than those massive adds they used to have...

ever so sad story about a komodo dragon
that tricky maths/physics problem about two trams .. two trams heading toward each other at 12mph..

kill bill vol. 1 kill bill vol. 2 very very good film(s). slightly graphic / gross in bits.
three kings very good
holy man good film (should be funnier considering the description on the back of the box).

AppleMac news:
background -
- Apple currently sell dual processor machines running at 1.8, 2.0 and 2.5ghz.
[delivery on the dual 2.5 is currently 3-5 weeks, delivery on the 2.0 is 3-5 days]

- these machines do not come with monitors.
- the cheapest monitor is 700 dollars, [350pound?] for a 17 inch, to be discontinued (currently not available in uk)
- then the cheapest will be a 1300 dollar 20 inch screen [uk price: 1000pound]

- The imac is currently discontinued until the next model comes out [september, so only 2 more weeks]
- Laptops are consistently cheaper than imacs at present.

interpretation -
apple do not have any low-end machines. You need to spend approx 2000 pound to become a mac owner, unless you want a laptop.

other news -
apple may have supply issues with faster processors: Prudential Equity Group reports availability worse than anticipated
motorola are developing faster G4 processors: Freescale develop(arstechnica.com) dual core G4(macobserver.com)

Lost in Translation (2003) anyone else seen it? imdb give it 8.1/10 - how would you rate it?

Christian in name but not in nature - interesting survey

meatless monday
Perhaps a simpler way to start being vegetarian.
official website.

Manilla Wallet, man made out of vanilla.

Make your way past rebel checkpoints to deliver food "A forthcoming video game aims to teach children about global hunger." "initially only be available in the US as a free CD or download from the net." er how does that work - the internet's global, man. "The game itself is somewhere between a game like Tomb Raider and a lecture from the WFP," nice. and then again at the end "Initially the game for the PC and Mac will only be available in the US." er you've already said that.

Over at Toms Hardware AMD's Sempron Takes on Intel's Celeron Value Challenge

"AthlonXP To Be Phased Out. As soon as Sempron will hit the market, the lower and middle class AthlonXP models will immediately be phased out. The first victims of AMD's new course will be all models up to 2500+. ...in the third week of August..."

So if you you have 133 mhz FSB socket a main boards, like me. I have 8 of them. Now is the time to get those XP2400+.

Dan's Data Review: The Wine Clip: The Wine Clip company ask Dan to review their product. Near the end, when Dan finds the thing does nothing: "When I asked the Wine Clip people to comment on this, they stopped answering my e-mail." LOL

Fredriks Diary Car crash towing a trailer, at the bottom, a cool "animated gif of the whole scenario". (found because he's got a review of the Minolta Dimage Z3 on his site)

Fuji S3000 £129 (3mp, 6x Optical, no sound on vids) PC World offer ends tuesday. (details on pcworld.co.uk)

Wikipedia doesnt know anything about Nelson, Lancashire, England Get into it guys, heres an example 'ear look its Burnley even Accrington is in there

Free 128mb CF Card when you purchase a Canon Digital Camera details here.

I replaced some faulty capacitors on a BE6-II main board yesterday. It had needed doing since I got it. The capacitors were domed then. Its symptoms had included refusal to run anything faster than a 566 celeron and intermittent boot issues. It finally gave up the ghost on Monday and would not post or sync the screen. I'm happy to say its all go now.

"children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music." Kuro5hin: Open Letter Against British Copyright Indoctrination in Schools

other interesting stories: Google hacks are real, "the failure rate of outsourcing [IT] contracts is still estimated to be about 75 per cent" the customer is always wrong.

Tony came over at the weekend, there's lots of sunny photos, like this one of New Brighton Lighthouse at joshwaller.tk in the gallery.

BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Man murdered in shotgun shooting

Compact flash card reliability:
I know this reads like an advert for lexar, but just wondering, do you get more reliable brands, brands that just don't work.. brands that just lose frames.
My fujifilm digicam likes to not finish recording videos, which is my fault I know, but then the video is not recorded even though 6/10ths of the file was written.
And of course the compact flash card I'm using is memorex? or unbranded, either way I don't expect much support.
ok.. I also think, and perhaps josh'll back me up on this one.. Zinc Chloride batteries.. cheap.. but not really upto the job. Maybe the power delivery is not enough for charging the flash and powering the autofocus on the motor and displaying the lcd and writing to the compact flash all at the same time, but anyway, the camera turns off.
Matt

Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo: Olympus C-725UZ Digital Camera ( 3MP , 8 x Optical ) £141.99 inc vat (and free postage) - £10 cheaper than anywhere else.

BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Batman crane protest continues - Batman doesn't have access to his kids, and is protesting, up the end of the street I work on. I didn't even know batman had kids, maybe he got jiggy with Catwoman last time he was in a film with her, and the feline won't allow access to their half bat half cat kids.

Matt in Dilbert

UK's only money saving expert - check the forums for current bargains and special offer codes :) Reestit Mutton's Bargain Basement another great bargain website. http://www.daveham.plus.com/ another site - this one focuses more on PC parts etc.

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