Apple have a Tigger under their bonnet and a phoo up their bottom.

I'm in Sri-Lanka!

Yep - and I've found t'internet. It's VERY hot (weather says it's 32C tomorrow!) - we're going to be building houses tomorrow in a village wiped out by the Tsunami. There's hundreds of tents, and temporary houses (basically sheds), pretty crazy stuff. The houses we'll be building are permenant houses so that's good. Get more details here, as it saves me typing what's already been written Cheers guys! Photos will probably be after we get back because the internet is super slow dial up.

"The Duel for Dual Core(s)" I'm going to blog that just because they know the difference between Dual and Duel. Unfortunately they don't know what to do if you've got more that one Core. Maybe they're going Hard Core and getting confused.

Business News

"Plans to produce the Rover 25 and 75 models in China would not indicate that such a deal is in the offing as SAIC already owns the intellectual property rights for these models following a deal with MG Rover last year." Rover seems proper shagged - they already sold the Mini and Land Rover years ago (although Land Rover isn't making profit for Ford), and now they've sold the 25 and 75 (well a year ago) to SAIC, the 75 being one of the better current cars, the 45 was based on the Honda Accord from like 1996 or earlier, and the City Rover, which is really just a Tata something from India. So what's that leave them with? the MGF, the expensive MGX (which is about £70k when it should be around £30k like the Audi TT, Porsche Boxter etc) and some concept ideas (such as a new MGF, a 75 coupe, and a new Rover 45, which actually looked quite good).

Ebay are getting richer. 28% rise in profits. Sales over $1bn. They says it's thanks to Paypal. Grrr. Ebay fees and Paypal fees are too high if you ask me and Tony. Link.

news stuff

there's a new pope (he's 78 years old, so he's not baby fresh new, but new in the sense that he's a pope now whereas he wasn't before).

there have been protests in china about japan's war crimes whereby they went through china for 14years killing people.

Ford's profits are less than expected, with General Motors (Vauxhall, etc) losing 1.1billion in the same period. GM also have $300 billion in debt! More on GM - the world's largest car manufacturer here.

camerakiller game in which you drive along and shoot the speed cameras (you have to drive off the road to shoot them). you should also check out the rest of the dudes website - i especially recommend the travel section (i found the text on UK enlightening) :)

photo hosting by msn?

I've setup an "msn blog" to see if they'll let me host images and post them in other places. you can visit the blog, monkeychai, and check out my post about this picture. (it was taken by a fuji, proving ben's opinion about fuji cameras). The msn blog seems customisable, but not in the same way that you can truly customise blogger's blogs - i like the way they integrate image hosting much better than blogger do though. (Although msn seem to compress the images to buggery)

why would anyone pay 71 quid for 72 quid worth of bnq vouchers? weird. they're only saving £1!

Adobe to acquire Macromedia

Holy Cow batman - About Adobe - Adobe to acquire Macromedia what will happen to Fireworks? (the macromedia graphics package)

ST Georges Day

ST Georges Day vote for st george's day to be a public holiday.

Leaked Power Mac G5, iMac G5, and eMac specs - Engadget - www.engadget.com /

Leaked Power Mac G5, iMac G5, and eMac specs - Engadget - www.engadget.com /

joshwaller.tk :: Index

joshwaller.tk : nelsoncolne : forum Index there's a forum here, sign up if you haven't already, and post some stuff if you have :)

quality

AMD wins gong at Intel bash

ultra red sunset (enhanced)

My small feet perspective

more wibble

also I was in Boston, and I went to the building pictured here, but I like the alternate droid view: here
Did I mention that Panasonic have invented a longer longer lasting oxyride battery (than your bog standard alkaline) review here.
CherryOS may be something to keep googling for in May. Aparently PearPC (a free + open source PowerPC emulator, which happens to run Mac OS X) didn't like the fact that CherryOS was basically modifying open source software but not re-releasing the changes - it costed something like 30 quid.
The next edition of macos X (10.4) is coming out around the end of april (priced at around 90 quid, for the whole OS), for a free demo, just visit your local 'apple store'(tm) (oh you probably don't have one.) Anyway, expect a whole heap of erm.. 'marketing' about widgets. In theory they're meant to be pretty easy to program. (ie; like javascript is easy to program)
Hey also did you hear? 'Epiacenter.com just published a review on the brand-new VIA Epia SP 13000 mini-itx mainboard'... 'together with the new EpiOS Linux distribution that is announced in the review, it seems to have a very good performance during MPEG2/MPEG4 playback' So good one Josh.
more dual core intel processors reviewed here
Time to do windows update again (April 13) see here for details.

just some stuff off the interfish

I read a review of hitchikers guide.. and it sounds like maybe something important was missed out.. so, if you have read the book, can you think of three things that should definitely be in The HHGTTG? like Towels, the cupcake, and a special pair of sunglasses?
Meanwhile, Chris Ecclestone didn't quit Dr Who because of the gruelling shedule more details, he always only intended to do one series.
Aparently Dell don't do AMD (based systems). Which sounds silly.
Intel have shipped/'released'/announced dual core processors, and Dell promise to sell systems with them for only £1600, which seems quite cheap really.
I think we're waking up to the idea that we can't go much faster with Ghz at the moment, but we can go parallel / more efficient / do more with each clock.
Just to be unfair and AMD 64 biased, (and this might be an elaborate hoax but..) there's this guy with an 'venice' core 90nm AMD which will overclock from 2.0 ghz to 2.8ghz, which means AMD have got some good people working on making processors go fast (and not too hot), maybe VIA should get their help.
A guy got sent to jail for
nine years for 'Using fake internet addresses to send mass email ads'. How many years would you get for:
A) writing a virus
B) hacking into a companys' computers

http://www.fastmail.fm

http://www.fastmail.fm Fastmail is pretty cool - lets you check all your email accounts (pop3/ even hotmail) all in one neat inbox / webpage.

two words - ant farms

ant farms. possibly THE coolest thing E V E R ! ! ! ! pics, details, links, live webcam, buy buy buy!

Putfile - Upload Video and Upload Images

baseball bat + mac, microwave + grenade!.

films

Be Cool (2005) is a bit average, the trailer seemed like it had so much potential. it's more comedy than gritty gang crime.

however The Long Good Friday (1980) is very good - it's got a young chubbier Peice Brosnan, and Charlie from Casualty in it playing serious gangsters - overall much better than I had expected and well worth watching, got some good and shocking twists in it (although it's not family viewing). (Plus it's got some guy who ended up in Brookside in it)

want to go see the new hitchhikers guide to the galaxy film for free? check if one of these cinemas is near you. want a free listerine mouthwash sample? gettit here.

Official Devvo Site :: Chavs On Film

Official Devvo Site :: Chavs On Film - it's a series of films (documentaries) on a "chav" person could be interesting.

You might be interested in the following:

You might be interested in the following:

I review the Olympus Mju Digital 500 - a stylish weatherproof 5 megapixel digital camera, with a 2.5" screen, and a 3x optical zoom lens.
I review the Nikon Coolpix 4800 - it's got an 8.3x optical zoom lens, a 4 megapixel sensor, and a 1.8" screen.
I review the VIA EPIA SP13000 - the latest (and greatest) VIA mini-itx motherboard with updated CPU, graphics, chipset, SATA Raid etc. (plus it's been mentioned on slashdot)

things that should exist but dont

things that should exist but dont:

- monkey digital camera - digital camera shaped like a monkey's face
- monkey tron - the tron film, but acted with monkeys
- polaroid digital camera - digital camera merged with a classic polaroid camera that prints the small polaroid prints instantly (could be mainly classic polaroid, with built in scanner that automatically scans the photo for authenticity) (eg like this)
- instant coffee cup - about the size or a bit larger than a thermal mug / flask, basically you put real espresso ground coffee in the bottom, and milk/water in a different compartment, then in the morning you wake up, press the button on the side and it then makes it for you (eg, you could set this up before you go to bed, then in the morning you press the button and it's ready) it would have to have a lid and then you could take it with you
- life size fabreeze / clothes freshener - basically this is so you can sleep in your clothes, you then get out of bed, walk through the large clothes freshener and it blows air over your clothes mixed with fabreeze and then you're ready to go to work as soon as you get out of bed (this would work well with the instant coffee maker)
- auto setup and use of old pcs for additional computing power - ie. you buy a new computer set it up on your desk, put your old computer in a cupboard, connect it to the new computer (long usb cable / network cable), and then Windows whatever auto detects it and farms out processing to the old computer as well as the new computer (eg for mp3 encoding / etc) this would mean you'd have a use for all the old computers companies chuck away each year (like all the p3-500mhz machines)

- obvious ones are: time travel, teleportors (get you to work instantly), the whole of britain working from home (all it should take is clever pc network access (VPN broadband access) and phone forwarding), rubber cars (if all cars were covered in bouncy rubber, then insurance should be REALLY cheap).

dude builds his own 4 megapixel digital camera using a cheap scanner. clinky.
and you can look at people's first pics with their digital cameras. clinky.

this is kinda cool

this is kinda cool. continuous polaroid photos clicky clicky.