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Yes, its better than happy slapping, its Nappy Flashing teeside

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Check out the human Pac Man in Singapore.

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David Beckham wants to go to the Moon when he retires from football. Evidently the irony not lost on the space cadet.

Alright chaps - I'm thinking of launching another blog similar to this - a community thing devoted to the weird, odd and downright strange stuff in the news etc. To save me wasting my time can you guys tell me if you would sign up? If so it shall be done.

my post was going to say this:

Aw, isn't that nice, Microsoft have released a "Malicious Software removal tool" designed to remove some of the common nasty viruses, like SDbot etc. get it here.

but instead i have to write the following:

Microsoft, in an attempt to replace every software company in existance, have released a "Malicious Software Removal Tool". It's designed to get rid of some of the most common viruses such as sdbot etc. The only problem is that it doesn't actually work! Twice I ran it on a machine that had SDBot, yet it told me there was nothing wrong with the pc. Luckily Mcafee have a free tool that actually works, called stinger, get it here.

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Liquid metal used to cool next gen graphics cards. John Connor concerned...

Cantilever used to weigh DNA molecule - Lilliputt surrenders.

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In a startling departure from typical American life the FAA will not allow billboards in space - the law will be amended to forbid "intrusive zero gravity advertising".

Well what do you know? The Americans get something right for once!

The history of PDAs
here, with a lovely picture of the Atari Portfolio [jillajang]. Found here [engadget]. I don't know what this guys doing with his portfolio but it certainly looks interesting.

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193 year old bottle of whiskey found during demolition. Bet that tastes smoooooooooth...

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Kelsey Grammer is Beast in X Men 3. That sucks.

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The government department responsible for "scare stories pulled out of my backside" issues warning that a massive geomagnetic storm is headed Earth's way. The "headline pulled from my backside" gives the usual "headlines from backsides warnings"; ie,media and communications disruption and mobile network damage and/or blackouts. No reports as to whether the "scare story pulled from my backside" is accurate or, as suspected by many, just another "scare story pulled from my backside".

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Picture the scene - you've unloaded about 100 litres of insect repellant in to the air - it's an aerosol so clearly burns very well - what do you think could happen if you say... turned on your pc?

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Al Qaeda get's nasty. It can't really pronounce "Condoleeza Rice" so it goes for the pithy "The Crusaders Hag" instead! Very amusing!!!

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The Japanese have developed a fuel cell that runs on blood. Apparently it will assist in powering artificial body components. It also begs the question - if we went to war for oil then what would we do for this? Not sure if I want to even begin to contemplate the answer to that one.

Free Anti-Virus Software

Free anti-virus software... what do you use, is it anygood? (I'm particularly interested in free software rather than stuff you have to pay for)

Avast is free. V4.6 Seems to use about 10mb when running on XP (with 96mb ram) - seems to do the job. 8.8mb download. Has an annoying spinning A next to the clock in the taskbar when it's doing stuff that you can't seem to switch off. Can be set to scan for viruses as a screensaver.

AVG Free (now available from http://free.grisoft.com). V7.0 seems to use about 21mb when running on W2K (with 384mb ram). "The complex anti-virus protection for your computer." is their tagline! It doesn't sound very appealing! 10mb download.

Anti-Vir also works with Linux. (6.2mb download). Also includes protection from 'internet diallers'. One of the programs is called 'Luke Filewalker' which is pretty cool. Seems to use about 12mb when running on W2K (with 96mb ram).

I couldn't find any other anti virus software that was fully featured. (some would protect your system but wouldn't remove viruses if you did get infected, and others were just web based scanners).

BBC NEWS | Scotland | New BBC weather map causes storm

BBC NEWS | Scotland | New BBC weather map causes storm: "He said England had a landmass which is less than twice Scotland's area." What!?! Why do people say such stupid confusing things!??

don't use msn search (http://search.msn.co.uk/) it's ****! (GRRR!) search results are useless and contain pop-up porn adverts. (i was setting up a fresh machine with a fresh install of windows, so hadn't got round to installing a pop-up blocker like google toolbar). whilst we're on the subject of microsoft crappy-ness: (web)hotmail doesn't even work properly with ie6/wxp on a fresh install! (/rant over)

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Pensioners will be able to get their pension in the pub after a Clitheroe pub gets a post office inside. In other news Clitheroe pensioners are skint because they spend all of their pensions in the pub.

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City forced to change forcast from "Run for your lives" to "Oops, we messed up" after looking at the wrong weather map. Just goes to show that all the greatest technology is still at ther mercy of the average goon.

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Sony PS3 specs here.

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Toads are becoming extinct so biologists are fitting them with free backpacks. There's a punchline somewhere in here but I'm not entirely sure what it is.

BBC NEWS | UK | 'Amarillo' video crashes MoD PCs

BBC NEWS | UK | 'Amarillo' video crashes MoD PCs (watch it here, it was filmed by British soldiers in Iraq)

New XBOX360 details. (3x IBM power PC 3.2ghz CPUs + ATI)
New Playstation3 details. (1x Cell 3.2ghz CPU (IBM PowerPC - in the core is has: 7 x SPE @3.2GHz as well as other stuff) + Nvidia + 1080p hi-def support)
Nintendo Revolution expected in 2006 (IBM + ATI).

The Gflops of these things is 115 for the XBOX360, and 218 for the PS3 - in comparison a PC (P4?) at 3.2ghz does about 8. (apparently) Note the traditional retard comments people leave such as "XBOX360 SUCKSSSSSSSS PS3 ALL THE WAY".

burnley burns

burnley fires burn:
Arsonists set fire station alight
A fire station in Lancashire was set alight by arsonists while firefighters were out on a call.

Crews from the Burnley station were attending a house and a car fire at about midnight on Sunday.

The firefighters returned to find flames coming from the foyer of the Belvedere Road base.

It is believed that flammable liquid was sprayed into an emergency phone at the station and then set alight. Police are investigating.

HyperOS are developing a (upto) 6GB RAM based hard drive that you put in your computer - this would let you boot up Windows (etc) SUPER FAST! Check out the picture of it and details at HyperOS. Sweeet!

Take a trip on the "ride a bike at the speed of light simulator"

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Spellcheckers of the world untie

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Spelling mistakes will no longer be penalised in English tests. I don't know what to say.

link wedding toast.

Free ipods. apparently. well I've been checking them out, and various people* claim that you can actually get a free ipod from them. I've checked out about 3 of them now, and this one (freeipoduk) seems the best... you just sign up, and apply for 2 services (for example 2 free credit cards), and then get 5 of your mates to do the same thing, then you get a free ipod. This one seems much better than the others, because signing up for the offers is free, whereas nearly all the other one's make you pay money to get offers.

So anyway - all you'd need to do is sign up using this referral link, then if 5 of you sign up and complete the offers (such as applying for a credit card you never use, costing you nothing) then I could get a free ipod. (and you could too by getting 5 other people to sign up using your referral link).

* these people have setup this website to help you get the free stuff.
You can also try and get a Free Creative Zen Micro, or a free 20gb ipod.

Hot on the heels of the dumbass law pased in Denver outlawing Pit Bull breed dogs (the upshot of which was that police went through the state and killed every single one) comes yet another "It could only happen in America law". In the state of Kentucky it is now against the law to fertilise more than one human egg at a time during the in vitro fertilisation process - which. correct me if I'm wrong, is supposed to aid infertile couples in the process of childbearing.

story here

I'm far from well versed in these matters but surely the nature of IVF means that hedging your bets would be a useful thing to do?

Hmmmmm.

monkey chai tea: Factors to consider when making websites.

monkey chai tea: Factors to consider when making websites. I've written a long fairly waffley post about making websites - I'd appreciate your comments and thoughts on it.

Ipod On The Wane?

Looks like another celebrity Ipod is on the way - after U2 came Coldplay. Apparently this mint green (ugh) creation will be a fair trade (don't get me started) Ipod. I'm no expert but I think celebrity endorsements are the first sure fire signal of the begginning of the end for the mighty white.

Stuff magazine gives the short and skinny here

The Force -O-Meter

Being new here I must make a couple of assumptions with this post:

1. Being a nerd fest Star Wars appreciation is taken as compulsory

and

2. Link dumps are OK (as long as they're good ones).

With that out of the way I'm sure you'd all like to take the test to get your rating on the Force -O-Meter

I have And it said "Mace Windu, you are a supreme bad ass who resonates with the force. Yoda is your best mate."

Having said all this I'm not entirely sure what all of this means or whether it's a good or bad thing. But hey, I resonate with the force. I like the sound of that...

Bionic Technology?

Having already read this story I am forced to conclude that the claims of a bionic arm are somewhat entusiastic - most probably an over-exuberant journalist but this is a cool story - certainly for medical research anyway. I'm sure Matt could enlighten us all...

full story here

dapreview.net: News

dapreview.net: News MpEye HTS-200 preview - an ultra compact 5gb mp3 player with a small colour screen.

$200 laptop running linux developed in india. follow one of the links and you'll get a picture of it. it looks a bit like a more advanced amstrad nc100.

joshwaller.co.uk - i've now got http://joshwaller.co.uk / www.joshwaller.co.uk - to replace the .tk domain - so please feel free to update your bookmarks, and enjoy the new advert free joshwaller.co.uk site. :)

funny picture. link.

is it against the law to urinate in public in the UK?

bbc news | india: "He said that under the new scheme, city corporation officials would roam the streets and impose on-the-spot fine on anyone found urinating in public.The offenders are overwhelmingly men who are also inclined to spit in public as well. But so far there are no signs that that they will also be penalised for this habit."

Sri-Lanka

Hello, I'm back. I've posted some stuff about Sri-Lanka here, with some photos here.

There's also loads of photos here.

Drive in Tea shop

At Greystone House Farm in Stainton, (Cumbria)
"tractor drivers can now phone in their order, and it will be taken out to their vehicle."
"We will take the order out to them, because farmers don't like trailing into posh tea rooms."
'This is possibly the greatest advancement in British culture since round tea bags.' says matt.

Compressed pixels

"With modern ethernet connections, you can get enough performance by sending through compressed pixels."
All you have to do is stretch them out again at the other end.

Never live alone

A washing machine has been invented that cannot be used by the same person twice in a row. This is designed to help lazy men to take their turn at doing that other stuff thats not TV.

Vote for yourself

There is going to be a General Election this week. Terrible inconvenience: I'll have to get up early if I want to vote, as Thursday is a busy day for me.
Anyway, if you were considering voting, there are a bunch of options you might not have previously considered going for, as detailed here.
I'm lucky in that I have the opportunity to vote for George Weiss, of the Vote for yourself party. He is a squatter who's landlord never fixed the leaky roof, who became very rich indeed. May that be a lesson to you.

Learn to use a typewriter

just as phil learnt to program by randomly pressing keys on his zx spectrum, kids in india are learning to use computers by figuring it out for themselves.

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.

Mepis 2004 Review

So here I am working away on a quick review of Mepis 2004 - and then "lo and behold" they go and release Mepis 3.3 aka a 2005 version!

You can read my review of Mepis 2004 on joshwaller.tk.

Make Things Right

Make Things Right - okay, these people want your donations for sri-lanka (a tsunami affected area), because the aid agencies still aren't out there yet, so they send the money strait away, much quicker than the aid agencies.

whilst we're on the subject: I'm going out to Sri-Lanka near the end of April for 2 weeks to help build houses / bricks, hopefully in time for the monsoon season (july) - so if anyone wants to give me some money towards it, please get in touch (goshwa at hot mail dot com).

Savetoby.com | Only YOU have the power to Save Toby!

Savetoby.com | Only YOU have the power to Save Toby! - this guy want's $50,000 otherwise he'll eat a cute bunny. the sick thing is there's enough stupid fat people out there that have given him $20,000 dollars already!!!

stop killing seals in canada. (send a message to the canadian government).

Old Rover P5B Coupe(?) 3.5Litre V8 - 184bhp. more info.

www.pepperme.com

www.pepperme.com - Homepage these little cartoon people are quite funny. they want you to drink dr. pepper. and i don't think you can win anything, but the can says it 'solves ALL your problems!' and gives you a link to pepperme.com - so there.

Heather

Josh, Tony and Heather (coffee union)

doctor who

heather

Orange Ford Capri II

Sunset at Albert Dock, looking towards the Wirral. (I'm using Picasa 2, and Hello and it's really really slow - I've asked it to post a number of pics and so far it's publish this one... would be quicker to upload it to my gallery on joshwaller.tk - although i guess it could be blogger.com that's at fault for having really slow servers?)

primet girls like to party

Some 14yr olds at primet in colne took extacy. Why? And on a wednesday night? there's no sense.

Jaguar X-Type - being lifted up so you can see what's underneath. This was taken at the Jaguar factory show room, in Liverpool.

I took this picture because I thought it was cool that you could see right through the building in the center that they're building. When I looked at the picture later, I realised I'd taken a photo of some kind of parallel dimension, whereby the whole earth was bending. (in reality the cheap digicam i used, has a fairly poor cmos sensor that must take the photo from the top and then scan/read down the sensor, so if you move the camera slightly, the image can change)

a new mouse

a new mouse for people with shaky hands. apparently there's about 3million of them [people with shaky hands] in the uk. linky.

mini pc vs mini mac article here they spend $800 on a mini mac and $800 on a mini pc and compare them.

Without reading the text below the previous picture - can you tell what it is? saturation and contrast changed. (taken with the cheap cam again)

A picture of my boss - taken through a clear glass bodum cup of tea (no milk) with the cheap 'Mercury Slimcam 3000 / aka Slim Cam II' saturation and contrast played with a bit.

I took this picture with a cheap digicam (Mercury Slim 3000) and thought it looked pretty cool so I'm posting it here. Will hopefully add some more random picks as time goes on. Why don't you post some random pics of yours using 'hello' / picasa.

White Chicks

White Chicks (trailer) - really very funny. two black dudes dress up as white chicks. watch it.

another apple rumour

"Remember Apple's eMate 300 from the early nineties? (nicknamed "Eat Me" by developers). It was a kind of Batman green and a fab little flat lap Newton. The PowerPage EU bureau has been beamed some details of a secret development team planning specifications for the release of a new mini laptop. (It goes well with their current mini theme. -Ed). Deep in the Apple cave these slim little mini pocketops are doing the rounds and getting a lot of great feedback. Sources who claim to have see one have commented that an internal planning spec details that the new machine runs a stripped-down flavour of Mac OS X. We're told that it will finally utilize Apple's Inkwell technology to "write anywhere" and neatly fold into your pocket - rather like an enlarged Motorola RAZR V3 mobile phone with a keyboard." from here, via here. (i figure you may as well make it public before it's deleted?)

interesting link(s) and news.

waxy links. definitely worth visiting regularly for interesting tech news. (such as:)

cellphone radiation research hampered by the big companies.
blogspot being used by spammers.

inside info on working in an apple store. here. comments are very interesting as well, to see how the other apple reseller stores work.

I passed my driving test

I passed my driving test! Wahey!

Plus - there's Formby beach photos on http://www.joshwaller.tk (in the gallery)

Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) - so it's a black and white film with famous people in it that sit in a cafe drinking coffee, and smoking cigarettes, so like it's even got steve coogan in, but like i didn't get that far, coz after 30minutes you're thinking how long is left? and then after 40 minutes you think BORING! and go upstairs and sit on the internet instead.

digicamreview.com

digicamreview.com is live! hooray!!

so you know. this is a bit mental.

this is mental. but in a good way. compact flash for the 1978 apple II. gizmodo.