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I know we’re not all technocrats but sheesh you’d think that the US patent office would at least be able to turn a fax right-side up!  How can they be expected to make informed determinations on the merits of technology patents if they can’t master a 180 degree rotation….  No, wait….  What am I thinking?…….

Someone Should Patent a Fax Rotator So the USPTO Can Read Upside-Down Faxes – USPTO fax – Gizmodo.

• IBM's Papermaster finally gets to be Apple's iPhone master Apple can finally welcome one of its newest employees in waiting. Mark Papermaster is at last allowed to take up his position with the company. Much delayed by theshenanigansIBM decided to pull by claiming that his choice to join Cupertino in some way damaged their oh so buoyant CPU business.......
• The London Times HATES The Web! #UK #web2.0 #tech Once thought of as a "serious" news outfit, it seems The Times has thrown standards to the wind and is resorting to taking cheap shots at technology they so obviously don't understand and lifestyles they so obviously can't afford. In a ludicrous but blistering "piece" (I won't give it the credit......
• Formula1: Hamilton out in Q1: Button on pole #formula1 #F1 A despondent Lewis Hamilton walks back to the pits after slamming his McLaren into the barrier after he lost the back end of the car on the entrance to the Mirabeau corner.  Earlier in the day Hamilton had said during an interview that he felt the back of the car......

• how can i get the Canadian government to cooperate; are my being taken seriously? Dear Yahoo.com, I know that your News Room, is up to date on the most recent Senate Green Room, discussion over the Canadian Boarder breech case involving, a Marie, who is now recognized as a famed Mobsters Lady? Well, I myself might be a small fish compared to this great......
• The Benefits To Ireland Postcards Ireland is a beautiful county with lots of historical and famous landmarks and the postcards available show there, but they only seem to show the pictures that are already available on the internet, and after a while the postcards all seem pretty much the same except for the destination......
• Snowboarding Glossary Continued Poptart - This involves airing from fakie side to forward side while in the half pipe without any rotation. Poser - This is someone that behaves as if they are better than they actually are. Pre-Peg Fiberglass - This is a stiff piece of fiberglass that is treated using epoxy......

Government, Idiots, Technology

Wired has a nice little piece on the current turbine research going on at Jaguar (of all places).  Funded in part by the UK tax payer, Jaguar is looking at using a small axial flow turbine to power the car’s generator. The power train is all electric. This approach makes a lot more sense than Chevy’s Volt as these engines are lighter and a lot more efficient and reliable  than traditional reciprocating engines of the type proposed for the Volt.

Not Jaguar’s first dance with jet technology but hopefully this one will see a longer life span than the engineering test bed shown above from Rover’s earlier attempt at turbine power.

Jaguar Building a Turbine Hybrid | Autopia | Wired.com.

• Video: UK Home Secretary delays 1984 by a few years This is disturbing news to be reading over my early morning coffee. I could launch into a rant about nanny states and the crazy lengths to which the UK's government seems willing to go to exert power un-necessarilyover its unwitting populous. I've done all that before so I'll just leave......
• The day Twitter turned into a killer #iranelection #twitter With Iran exploding under their noses the major news networks (in the US at least) were powerless to do little but sit back and watch it happen.  With the activities of their correspondents cut short by the Iranian government all the likes of CNN could do was turn to social......
• SCI FI Channel to become Syfy; “Imagine Greater” is new message | SCI FI Wire Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this name change is simply moronic.  Check out the readers comments after the ridiculously blinkered self indulgent drivel of an article. What I'm just floored by is how in the hell they've managed to convince themselves that "SyFy" broadens perceptions.....  WHAT?  ......

• 2012 Lexus GS-F will be powered by LFA V10 engine The Lexus GS-F sedan will arrive in 2013 gets a detuned LFA’s 4.8-litre V10 engine. This high performance Lexus GS-F sedan plans to take on the BMW M5 series. Really? First, it needs to challenge the Infiniti M or G series before taking on the champion. It doesn't mean......
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• New Vertical Model Turbine Wind To Power New York Loch Sheldrake, NY - This fall marked the dawn of a new type of model turbine wind power, where Manhattan-based Environmental Technologies and Sullivan County College celebrated the introduction of their first 1.25-megawatt vertical axis wind turbine to be built on the campus grounds. Environmental Technologies' founder and president, Sam......

Automotive, Cars, Jaguar, Jets, Technology, Turbines

When your price collapses this quickly you know you’re not an iPhone killer.  A few short months after their well accepted launch, the Palm Pre family of smartphones are hitting the bargain bin with a thud.

Verizon is n a price cutting spree for sure but now the Pre is up on a buy 1 get 1 free deal.  Not the ld Pre, but the new Plus models.  Given the buzz at launch you’d have thought that these puppies would have held their price longer.

the iPhone shrugs…

Verizon Confirms Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Costs, Buy One Get One Free Offer – Palm pre plus verizon – Gizmodo.

• 'Upload Video' Screen Suggests Video Capabilities in Next iPhone - Mac Rumors [/caption] We're coming up on the anniversary of the iPhone 3G announcement at last years WWDC.  It is understandable therefore that rumors are already starting to circulate about the next revision of the iPhone hardware. Macrumors via Engadget have a nice screen shot of a video upload feature that isn't live in......
• The Final Cut still stings Today I went to visit an amazing place. Amazing not for it's beauty or spiritual significance or for it's healing powers or even for its wine. The thing that this place is dedicated to is nuclear destruction. Yeah that's right, blowing our asses off the face of the planet. So......
• Apple Adds Chinese Handwriting. Could this be more proof of a Mac tablet? There have been rumors flying around for months (if not years) about the "soon the be released" Apple tablet computer.  The closest we've come so far to actually getting such a device has been the iPhone.  Portable, connected and pretty full featured, internet-wise and built on the cult of the......

• Buy offers $4.95 2GB USB Thumb Drive - backup financial docs easily. *Update- Its $9.95 now..but for a 2GB drive, thats still a deal. Personally, I think its the best way to back up stuff and take it with out at all times. Ending today, over at buy.com, they have a 2GB USB thumb drive for only $4.95. The price is actually......
• Palm Pre Vs Palm Pixi The Palm Pixi has been called a cheaper Pre, this has even led to Palm being criticized by consumers who feel that the Pixi is nothing but updated hardware that was designed for making the Pre smaller. The Palm Pixi does offer a few features that differentiate it from the......
• 10 cool new gadgets from CES [/caption] Las Vegas, Nevada -- Three-dimensional televisions, Internet-enabled TVs, touch-screen "tablet" computers, e-book readers and other fun new gadgets were scattered all over the enormous Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, which ended on Sunday, is regarded as one of the best trade shows for spotting new technologies......

Apple, Communications, Internet, iPhone, Palm, Pre, Technology

More hair-trigger madness.  So an Xbox 360 in the hold is somehow more dangerous than 200 laptops in the cabin?  RIGHT…..

Maybe we should all just stop flying for a while until this industry gets its feet back on the ground (or at least its head out of the clouds – Sorry couldn’t resist)..

US Airways Saves Flight From Dangerous Xbox 360 Threat – usairways – Gizmodo.

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Donuts? #android #smartphone #tech Our Friends over at Giz' have a nice piece on the latest incarnation of Android smartphone OS (as opposed to the Android fictional netbook OS). What leaps at out me is that all the "gee whiz" features are things that the iPhone has had since 3.0 if not earlier.  I'm......
• More hair-trigger madness - Gatorade terrorism anyone? In the spirit of fairness, after chastising the Brits for arresting someone based on a tweet (and a tweet alone) it's the Americans turn to rush head-long into the over-reaction department. A San Diego 11 year old gets humiliated in front of his entire school, has his home searched......
• The Tao of Newton - Now Officially a Cult We've been called a lot of things, we who love Apple. Geeks, Fanboi's, etc. Well now it's official (at least as far as InfoWorld is concerned). The Newton is #7 on their Tech Cult charts. My first (for I've had several) Newton experience wasn't exactly theimpeccableout of the box Apple......

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• Finally, A 'No More Phone Books' Petition Is Online. Thanks to a tip from Trever, a Good Human reader, Paperless Petition has been found and it is a good place to start to getting the phone companies to start an "on-demand" delivery system instead of a "let's throw one of these 25 pound books on every doorstep in America,......
• Apparently paying cash for something is now headline news "CNN.com Recently Published/Updated - Student cashes in savings after private loan falls through" My first thought when I saw that headline was, "Huh? Paying cash for school is now headline news? I guess people really DO assume that you can't go to school without loans anymore." So of course I......

Flying, Microsoft, Morons, Terrorism, Xbox

In the spirit of fairness, after chastising the Brits for arresting someone based on a tweet (and a tweet alone) it’s the Americans turn to rush head-long into the over-reaction department.

A San Diego 11 year old gets humiliated in front of his entire school, has his home searched by the bomb squad and is told to seek counseling by his hysterical vice principle for what?  Threatening to blow his classmates to hell? Burn his school to the ground? To bring down the government?  No.  All this for showing how a gatorade bottle can explode as part of a school science fare…!   What?  Has this veepee lost his mind?  Haven’t kids been doing just this kind of thing at science fares for decades?  Isn’t this the kind of thing that the Myth Busters do on TV every week?

We need laws to protect the innocent from overzealous tin-pot dictators who are hell bent of stretching their pathetically small amounts of authority to ridiculous proportions.  I hope this kid’s parents sue the shit of the veepee and the school district.

11-Year-Olds Science Project Causes Bomb Scare, School Evacuation, Hilarity – Science project – Gizmodo.

• Advertising - Sci Fi Channel Has a New Name - Now, It’s Syfy - NYTimes.com WARNING - RANT AHEAD I'm stunned.  This is the kind of wrong-headed crap you get when you put two people (Messes Hammer and Howe) who care not for the genre they are supposed to promote in charge of the Sci Fi channel. These execs think it's just a peachy keen idea......
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Donuts? #android #smartphone #tech Our Friends over at Giz' have a nice piece on the latest incarnation of Android smartphone OS (as opposed to the Android fictional netbook OS). What leaps at out me is that all the "gee whiz" features are things that the iPhone has had since 3.0 if not earlier.  I'm......
• Woz is set for his Dancing with the Stars debut - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)   [/caption] What is Woz thinking?  I guess the guy is bored or something because I can't for the life of me understand why someone in his position would want to cha-cha-cha around with a bunch of C & D list "celebs" (Sorry Kathy!)...   My advice to Woz is - Stick......

• Goals Update for End of January 2009 After only one month, I am as confident as ever that I can accomplish my goals for 2009. I've made some good progress towards most of my goals, however, there are some goals that I haven't started yet. It has only been one month, but it feels good to be......
• Review: England's Perfect Hero by Suzanne Enoch What makes a perfect hero? Is it his dashing good looks, his heroic deeds, or his charm? Third in the series Lessons in Love by Suzanne Enoch, England’s Perfect Hero, delves into the challenge of defining a hero. Lucinda and her two best friends, Georgiana and Evelyn, create three......
• Selecting an Ideal Beginner Investment Today you are going to read my views on first investments for beginners. That topic seems strange for a baby boomer who is probably considering his gazillionth different investment option. On the other hand, the high school and college graduation seasons have just concluded, causing me to reminisce about my......

What is going on in the UK?  The place is turning into a police state but its citizens don’t seem to care.

The latest Orwellian nonsense to come from my home country is the arrest and imprisonment of a frustrated airline passenger who no doubt like the rest of the country was going a bit stir crazy due to the relentless snow that’s brought life to a standstill in the UK for the past 2-3 weeks.

So this guy sends a tweet saying that if the airport isn’t reopened he’s going to blow it up.  Rather than do any actual police work, the cops just lock him up and confiscate his computers.  No evidence of any real threat, just a dumb tweet.  I know we’ve got to be careful about terrorist threats.  I grew up in the UK when the whole country was at the hands of the IRA so I get it, but come on people, at least search his house to see if he actually has or has handled any explosives before you run his life into the ground.

Amazing.

Frustrated Passenger Gets Arrested for Tweeting Airport Bomb Threat – Paul Chambers – Gizmodo.

• Jackson dies, the web, Twitter and iTunes fail under the load #mj The second incident in a week that has strained the internet's infrastructure almost to it breaking point.  Following the Iran stories of last weekend, the news of the sudden death of Michael Jackson brought site after site to a grinding halt as fans and the public rushed to their......
• Brideshead - Relived So, yet again, back in the day (ie. the early 80s) there was a seminal event on British TV called "Brideshead Revisited".  Seminal not only for it's stunning narrative by Evelyn Waugh but seminal for it's stunning production.  Especially amazing as it was produced not by the venerable BBC but......
• Formula1: Hamilton out in Q1: Button on pole #formula1 #F1 A despondent Lewis Hamilton walks back to the pits after slamming his McLaren into the barrier after he lost the back end of the car on the entrance to the Mirabeau corner.  Earlier in the day Hamilton had said during an interview that he felt the back of the car......

• and lo, at the Outback they rejoiced The owner of a prominent small business in his small town had two sons. The younger son asked one day if the father could lend him a substantial amount of money. The father was a little bit puzzled, but he did it. The younger son took off for a distant......
• Violence Explodes: Honduras' 'Wannabe' Dictator Returns Sunday Paper - July 5th, 2009 Ousted, extreme leftist-leader and former Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, was greeted by protesters and soldiers on the ground along with circling military aircraft as he tried to return to Honduras a short while ago.  After trampling on his nation's constitution by attempting to abolish term limits......
• Swiss Army Knife for the Office Warrior. I still remember my first swiss army knife my older brother handed down to me as a kid. I was always jealous of this one guy in my fourth grade class because he had one, and I forever begged my mom to get one for me. Of course trying to......

Police, Stupidity, Terrorism, Twitter, UK

I’ve been collecting and listening to Numan’s music for 30 years.  I had never even heard of this until recently.  I’m guessing it’s going to come as news to most other Numan fans also.  Well worth a listen.

YouTube - Gary Numan – Unreleased 7-UP TV Commercial Music! .

• Next iPhone - Hike while watching Star Trek Our good friends over at MacRumors picked up on BoyGeniusReport that shows the iPhone 3.0 firmware was support for not only the current accelerometer but the ability to log motion and compass heading. The next iPhone is starting to sound like a hiker's dream. Not only will we no......
• Formula1: Hamilton out in Q1: Button on pole #formula1 #F1 A despondent Lewis Hamilton walks back to the pits after slamming his McLaren into the barrier after he lost the back end of the car on the entrance to the Mirabeau corner.  Earlier in the day Hamilton had said during an interview that he felt the back of the car......
• Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe - The iPhone App If, like me, you're a fan of 80's music you'll know, unless you've been living under a rock, that Depeche Mode have just released their long awaited follow up to "Playing the Angel" called "Sounds of the Universe". I've got to admit that the album is still growing on me......

• See and listen to the wealthy affiliates ... Via a toolbar Keep up with the Wealthy Affiliate or who ever you like really You know I love my gadgets and this definitely comes under that list of useful ones. Bookmarking and browsing. Over the recent years there has been hundreds of sites that we become part of the everyday browsing. Problem is we may......
• Acoustic Musical Instruments Glossary Action - This is a term that is used to describe how a musical instrument plays. The use of this term is highly varied within the industry, but the general sense that it refers to is the playability of the instrument or how well it functions on a mechanical level.......
• Commercial Real Estate - Latest News The latest news in commercial real estate from around the blogosphere is about the early signs of what I blog about a couple of months ago, the second wave of foreclosure are coming in commercial real estate.  Check it out for yourself: <a href="http://housingdoom.com/2010/01/02/commercial-real-estate-a-darwinian-herd-thinning-event/">Commercial Real Estate: “A Darwinian Herd-Thinning Event......

Commercial, Gary Numan, Numan, YouTube

This falls so far into the WTF bucket that I’m at a loss to understand why there’s even a question about whether this cop should be arrested or not.  How can anyone think it’s OK to taser a unconscious man suffering from convulsions? It’s even more unbelievable when the person doing the taser-ing is a cop who arrived on the scene with the paramedics in response to the call for assistance…

Not only did this jar head cross the line in such a stupendous way, he crossed 11 times in a minute…  WHAT?  I know cops have a tough job and have to put up with all kinds of abuse and dangerous situations but he was called there for a medical emergency for crying out loud!  To a man having convulsions!!  You’d think that he’d be expecting to see erratic and involuntary movements without interpreting them as an attack.  I’m speechless….

This the latest in an alarming list of ridiculous cop taser incidents.  Another that comes to mind is the recent cop taser-ing a 7 yr old girl who was throwing a temper tantrum….  Great parenting skills all round on that one!

All this begs the question – “Has giving cops non-leathal weapons just given them leave to be less objective and more blatantly aggressive?”  I sure as hell don’t feel safer..  Cops in the UK have carried non-leathal weapons for decades, the UK version of the Billy Club or Night Stick.  Those weapons haven’t given rise to a wave of assault and battery by Her Majesties finest.  Maybe there’s something about having to be within striking distance that makes them think twice.

Cop Tasers Unconscious Diabetic 11 Times – Crime – Gizmodo.

• Music to find your blue self with #glass #watchmen Last night I put frustration aside and I waited the 4 minutes for my Blu-ray player to start playing Watchmen.  At 3+ hours it's more film than most people have attention span for.  I was captivated...  A movie hasn't done that to me at first watching since Blade Runner or......
• Jesus is a KitKat - WTF? So, kiddies, suspend disbelief about the whole savior thing for a second and put yourselves in the shoes of our friends who truly believe in Jesus.  I'm not knocking them, or their faith.  I actually have a huge respect for faith so run with me here for a second. I have......
• Telekon - Reduxed....... I will always love Numan..... But why? OH Why???? Did Gazza only use that fab LED recreation of the original TeleTour set for only 5 of the songs???!!!! I mean I could understand it for the lesser numbers, but We Are Glass and I Die: You Die??? That was......

• How to Keep a Tennis New Year Resolution.... New Year's Resolutions are like a road map for success in tennis, business and life. Resolutions are challenging to keep - everyone seems to say. So is the pursuit of our dreams and ambitions in the face of living day to day. What is important is to make our day......
• Reader Question -Should I Pay Off My Car Loan With A 0% Interest Credit Card? Got a question yesterday from one of the readers: I currently have about $11,000 left on my car loan at around 7% interest, but was thinking of getting a 0% balance transfer and paying it off. I understand that after the 0% period ends I will have to find another......
• Groups, Groups, Groups... Exploring Groups on Prosper Disclaimer: I am not a member of any group, nor do I help or detract from any group... The basic idea is that a lender starts a group and becomes a group leader.  That group leader maintains to group and optionally takes a some percentage on top of the lender......

Pushed into lime-light’s harsh glare as the inspiration of  the multiple Oscar winner – “Rain Man”, Kim Peek put a very human face on “different” and “challenged”.  A face that we could all relate to.  A face that we all could like.

His incredible talent gave him total recall but left him unable to appreciate most of what he knew and its relevance to the world around him. A situation that would have made most bitter and angry, Peek still marveled in every fact like it had been wrapped just for him. A gift to be enjoyed.

Kim Peek passed away just before the holidays, victim of a heart attack at only 58.

Gizmodo’s link below patronizes the ludicrous NYT who expects to capture a pay-per-play audience, seemingly unaware that they compete for readership with a million other publishers a Google search away, none of whom suffer from those delusions. Witnessed here by The UK’s Telegraph.

Kim Peek

Remembering Kim Peek, The Uncanny Human Computer – Kim Peek – Gizmodo.

• Cli.gs Shutting Down - Sorrow Tiz a great shame when a really great idea and excellent execution isn't enough to make a business successful.  Like so many other promising start-ups on the internet the URL shortening service Cli.gs will be making its last snip at the end of October. This is particularly sad for us at......
• Dong by another name There's something about a tin-pot unfashionable midget dictator with an overwhelming porno fetish who can't get his missile up, even if it has got "Dong" in its name that brings out the 14 yr old in me.  Can't think why! If I were you Kim Yong, I'd stick to......
• #Numan Readies for "Pleasure" Tour There's a flurry of news from Gary Numan today.  The media finally seem to have buried the hatchet with him and are gushing over the upcoming Pleasure Principle 30th anniversary tour. After years of being ridiculed by the UK music press, Gary is now enjoying their adoration.  Shame it......

• How to Play With Your Dog [/caption]If you're like me, your research into the world of dog training has encompassed a broad spectrum of behaviors and commands - but every one of those commands seems oriented on the disciplinary life of your dog. But when your dog has been good all day, has followed through with......
• 450 Random Useless Facts [/caption] Most American car horns honk in the key of F. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." Barbie''s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Studies......
• Police Brutality In Cincinnati, OH local police were called to investigate a 350 pound man, Nathaniel Jones who had fallen asleep on the front lawn of a White Castle restaurant, and then began acting irrationally. When the police arrived, the Jones began to attack the officers despite the officers' repeated warnings to......

Proof that some people really have no shame.  The sign built from the Nazi propagandist slogan “Work will make you free” which stretched over the gate to one of the worst places on Earth was stolen from the Auschwitz site early Friday morning.

The UK’s Telegraph needs to do some fact checking.  The sign is made from tubular steel and can easily be carried by one person making the theft significantly less difficult than they make it out to be.  Also, with no trace of who actually took it, it might be a little premature to blame “neo-Nazis” for the theft.

I’m more than a little stunned that anyone is cold hearted enough to desecrate the memorial to one of the biggest human atrocities of the 20th century.

Auschwitz sign stolen ‘by neo-Nazis’ – Telegraph.

[UPDATE]:  So this just keeps getting stranger.  Today the BBC reports that Polish police have found the stolen sign in the North of the country.  It had been cut into 3 pieces (presumably they were more interested in easy transportation than resale value) by 5 men who are now in custody.  This is where it gets strange, the BBC goes on..

Five men in their 20s or 30s were detained and were being taken to Krakow for questioning, a police spokeswoman said.

Krakow no less!  Himmle!  Whilst we’re glad that this WWII artifact has been recovered, we’re hoping that they don’t suffer the same fate in Krakow as so many innocents did during the 8 years of the war.  Irony abounds!

• Numan adds dates. #Numan #Music Gary Numan has added live dates in the UK throughout the Summer.  Fans were notified via his NuMind network today of the appearances in advance of their public announcement on his web site. The new dates are July 19 - The Lovebox festival, Victoria Park, London Aug 1st -......
• Button does it again! Wins Spanish Formula 1 GP #F1 Jenson Button must be the happiest man in motor racing this weekend. He picked up another 10 championship points after a spectacular win at the Circuit de Catalunya, his 4th win out of the 5 races run so far this season. The Spanish GP at Barcelona got off to a......
• The day Twitter turned into a killer #iranelection #twitter With Iran exploding under their noses the major news networks (in the US at least) were powerless to do little but sit back and watch it happen.  With the activities of their correspondents cut short by the Iranian government all the likes of CNN could do was turn to social......

• Soccer Memorabilia Sports Memorabilia -> Autographs Original -> Soccer While the United States may not share the same love for soccer as the rest of the world, it is clear that everywhere else soccer and soccer memorabilia is big business. During the last World Cup a cumulative 4 billion people turned into......
• Are Your Finances a Wreck? As the housing crisis worsens and the economy looks increasingly weak, most Americans are facing the reality that their finances are in a bit of a wreck. Chronic overspending, a lack of savings and too much bad debt has left many in a financial condition that they would prefer not......
• Save Time, Money and Space in Over 80 Ways If you're looking for handy gadgets, tools and various items that can save you time, money or space (or all three!) this list of more than 80 top products is just what you need. Everyone's got saving money on their minds these days. Some of us are always looking to......

Germany, Jewish, Nazi, Poland, WWII

This story is just the other side of ridiculous but given the players not really that surprising.

Microsoft (the un-”do no evil” company) maybe offering large content providers cold hard cash to demand that Google stop listing their content in search results.  I guess if you can’t beat ‘em, cheat..  is the norm in Redmond these days.  Kinda pathetic really just few days after Ballmer was spouting how well Bing was doing to a bunch of downtrodden shareholders.

So MSFT’s never ending nerve notwithstanding the amazing part of the story on Giz is that Murdoch might actually be considering this! Apparently he wants to cripple his web ratings and has been thinking about shutting out Google unilaterally for a while.  Now MSFT is willing to fill his pockets to actually throw the switch.  How can he lose?

At first I was appalled by this blatant tampering with the internet’s live blood (content) but then I got to thinking..  Google ain’t going to miss the ad revenue for one source of content.  It’s not like it isn’t going to get replicated in a million other places anyway.  If Microsoft wants to squander untold millions trying to hold back the sea then let it and getting News Corp’s hideously biased un-news off the front page would be a generally good thing all round for humanity.

So this blogger says – GO FOR IT!  (morons).

Microsoft Might Pay Murdoch to De-List From Google – Microsoft Bing Google Rupert Murdoch – Gizmodo.

• VOA News - African Catholics March in Support of Vatican AIDS Policy If you ever needed a crystal clear example of how religion is a negative factor in society , I think this is it.  It's criminal for anyone to tell young people, whether they are African of not that using condoms helps promote the AIDS epidemic.  As a testament (every pun intended) to......
• Re-Kindling a love of reading [/caption] For once, he said... "I don't get the technology hand-me-downs". He was right. Having just bought my partner the first Kindle for Christmas and been amazed by the fact that this was the first piece of technology I'd bought him that he'd actually been excited about. I was floored......
• #Windows7 is nothing like #Mac #OSX - "Trust us", #Microsoft If, like me you've been chuckling more than a little about the fact that a Sr Microsoftie Simon Aldous came clean was horribly mistaken earlier this week when he admitted inaccurately told the press that Windows 7 owes its look and feel to Apple's OS X. You'll be relieved that......

• Asus Embarrassed by Linux Netbook? At the Computex trade show, Qualcomm showed off an Asus Eee running Google's Android OS. We've been hearing about Android as a possibility on netbooks for a while now, but haven't seen a vendor who's done it until now. Asus should be proud. Instead, Asus chairman Jonney Shih has apologized......
• From A Geek’s Geek: Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Projects, Products and Features of 2009 When Daniel Raffel emailed and asked if we’d be interested in publishing his list of favorite stuff from 2009 we quickly agreed. He has worked on some of the more interesting projects in Silicon Valley over the last couple of years, and has his finger on the pulse of......
• Link Building Through Article Marketing - 7 Must Know Tips Searching for inbound links? Want to improve your ranking on Google? Are you looking for a solid, reliable method to consistently build large numbers of inbound links over time? You've come to the right place. Read on... I have been working on my website for three years now. When I started, I had......

Google, Internet, Microsoft, Morons, Murdoch

It’s a very strange thought for me to realize that the space shuttle program in about to end. After watching the Apollo 11 moon shot when I was 6 I’ve been fascinated with the US space program. It seems like the shuttles have always been with us. From test flights strapped to the back of a 747 to starting full operations in 1982 they have been the backbone of the space program. We have so much to thank the shuttle program for it’s not going to be easy to see it end. Read more…

• Re-Kindling a love of reading [/caption] For once, he said... "I don't get the technology hand-me-downs". He was right. Having just bought my partner the first Kindle for Christmas and been amazed by the fact that this was the first piece of technology I'd bought him that he'd actually been excited about. I was floored......
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Numan’s “Touring Principle Redux” is about to start in the UK (See you all at the Indigo2) and to mark the occasion Gary is re-releasing the video of the original Pleasure Principle tour back in 1980.  This time around we’re not being subjected to all the gratuitous video effects that mostly ruined the original release. Read more…

• Windows 7 - Horse Feathers! #tech #Windows7 So I know I'm going to get flack for this one, but Windows 7 bunnies, I'm about to burst your bubble. For months I've been reading one blog after another saying how much better Windows 7 is than it's pathetic and quickly ditched predecessor. "It works" they've said, "It's......
• Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe - The iPhone App If, like me, you're a fan of 80's music you'll know, unless you've been living under a rock, that Depeche Mode have just released their long awaited follow up to "Playing the Angel" called "Sounds of the Universe". I've got to admit that the album is still growing on me......
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Now we all love Twitter.  How else would I know when half of you are eating dinner or walking the dog?

Time (the magazine) has obviously stopped taking its meds.  They are trying to decide between Twitter and “the economy” as “person” of the year!  Ok, now they’ve done many oddball things in the past to give  this meaningless but attention getting stunt more impact. I don’t mind them redefining the language to allow a social networking service as a “person” but it would be nice if they’d pick one that at least didn’t fail like a whale (or in Time’s case, maybe it should be jump like a shark?)

Twitter: Time’s ‘Person’ of the Year? | Epicenter | Wired.com.

• Good Kindle Bad Kindle One of the features of Kindle I've really used a lot is its ability to have your documents (PDFs, Word Docs, etc) converted and sent to the device simply by emailing the file to a special address that only your Kindle knows about. Now the good new is that Amazon......
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• Intel: A CPU in Every Pocket by 2011 #tech #iphone #smartphone One of things you have to trade off as a tech vendor is what you share with your partners & customers and what you keep secret.  Apple is at one end of the spectrum with their legendary secrecy.  Intel might be thinking about taking a page from their book as......

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Time, Twitter

Our good fried Ina Fried over at c|net posted a nice story about Microsoft’s latest innovation.   A tool created to help install Windows 7 on netbooks apparently mysteriously ended up being based on the ImageMaster open source project.  Yup, now their passing open source code off as their own (guess Apple didn’t have anything they could rip off for this one).

I’m sure that MSFT would have done the right thing even if the blinding light of the tech press hadn’t been pointed at them but they are deflecting blame onto some anonymous “third party” who is supposed to been contracted to develop the tool in question. No names, natch.

Having been caught realized their terrible mistake, Microsoft have claimed that they are going to do the right thing and released the source code for the USB/DVD tool back into the open source community (hope someone is going to track that!). Strangely enough, the original ImageMaster project is now no longer to be found on CodePlex – Hmmmmm. Innovated out of existence.

Microsoft: Windows 7 tool used GPL code | Beyond Binary – CNET News.

• #Windows7 is nothing like #Mac #OSX - "Trust us", #Microsoft If, like me you've been chuckling more than a little about the fact that a Sr Microsoftie Simon Aldous came clean was horribly mistaken earlier this week when he admitted inaccurately told the press that Windows 7 owes its look and feel to Apple's OS X. You'll be relieved that......
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Microsoft, Open Source, Windows 7

If, like me you’ve been chuckling more than a little about the fact that a Sr Microsoftie Simon Aldous came clean was horribly mistaken earlier this week when he admitted inaccurately told the press that Windows 7 owes its look and feel to Apple’s OS X. You’ll be relieved that Microsoft has now settled the matter officially stating that Me Aldous’ comments were “Totally inaccurate”.

Methinks that our friends in Redmond doth protest too much.  After all, the fact that Windows 7 has an alpha blended UI at last is total coincidence and that the new task bar highly resembles Apple’s Dock is just a perception issue. Anyone thinking that Windows 7’s new thumbnail view for running application looks anything like Apple’s Stacks must have mud in their eye.  Not forgetting that Windows 7 now supports multi-touch (oh what innovation!) is in no way influenced by the fact that Apple brought that technology to market over 3 years ago. Lastly be mindful that the brand new Microsoft retail stores look almost exactly like in no way resemble the Apple stores we’ve all been packing into for years.

Most importantly know that Microsoft thrives off innovation……  just not their own innovation!

Microsoft denies employee’s comments about copying Apple | Mac OS X | MacUser | Macworld.

• Beam me up Jobso! Are Apple FINALLY going to make my Star Trek fantasies come true? Any of you who've watched the TV show will know exactly what I mean. For years I've wanted a PADD like device. Something small enough to carry around easily, with enough functionality to do most of the things......
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Apple, Mac, OS X, Technology, Windows

Thanks to TUAW for running this piece.  It kinda made my week.

I almost feel sorry for Steve Ballmer.  Not only does he get his great pitch spot for Windows 7 ruined by Matt Lauer constantly asking him questions about Apple and the iPhone but the wags in NBC’s graphics dept stuck MSFT’s Windows 7 logo on the screen of a MacBook Pro…!   Way to go guys!

No wonder Ballmer looks like he’s just been stabbed in the heart, after all NBC is a partner with MSFT in MSNBC….  ROFL….

It don’t get much better than this.

Steve Ballmers Windows 7 pitch features MacBook Pro in the background.

• Apple & Microsoft OS updates to use GPUs for more than graphics New technologies in Apple's upcoming OSX Snow Leopard and Microsoft's Windows 7 operating systems offer a way for the incredible and mainly untapped processing power of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) to be utilized by the system for tasks that go way beyond rendering images. Both new operating systems offer some......
• Apple storms the UK! OK, call me a fanboi if you like but data is data and it's hard to argue with numbers like these. PC sales in the UK slid by 5.1% in the first quarter of 2009 while Apple's sales grew by 6.6% during that same time. This trend really puts into......
• #Windows7 is nothing like #Mac #OSX - "Trust us", #Microsoft If, like me you've been chuckling more than a little about the fact that a Sr Microsoftie Simon Aldous came clean was horribly mistaken earlier this week when he admitted inaccurately told the press that Windows 7 owes its look and feel to Apple's OS X. You'll be relieved that......

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• Find the Best Computer Repair Company in Your Neighborhood Computer repair companies are hard to find. They come in many different shapes and sizes - some are local computer repair shops and some are remote computer support stores.If your laptop is broken or desktop needs fixing, you have a few options:-Fix the PC yourself - hopefully it's not......
• $2,164.89 for a large piece of brick Ryan purchased a Macbook Pro for about $2,164.89. But when he got home, he found that inside is nothing but just a brick (wow! an iBrick) packed nicely with bubble wrap instead of Macbook Pro. Poor Ryan, I hope he would make a good use of it. In what's possibly......

There’s a flurry of news from Gary Numan today.  The media finally seem to have buried the hatchet with him and are gushing over the upcoming Pleasure Principle 30th anniversary tour. Read more…

• Music to find your blue self with #glass #watchmen Last night I put frustration aside and I waited the 4 minutes for my Blu-ray player to start playing Watchmen.  At 3+ hours it's more film than most people have attention span for.  I was captivated...  A movie hasn't done that to me at first watching since Blade Runner or......
• #Numan re-releases "The Touring Principle" on #DVD - #musicmonday Numan's "Touring Principle Redux" is about to start in the UK (See you all at the Indigo2) and to mark the occasion Gary is re-releasing the video of the original Pleasure Principle tour back in 1980.  This time around we're not being subjected to all the gratuitous video effects that......
• More hair-trigger madness - Gatorade terrorism anyone? In the spirit of fairness, after chastising the Brits for arresting someone based on a tweet (and a tweet alone) it's the Americans turn to rush head-long into the over-reaction department. A San Diego 11 year old gets humiliated in front of his entire school, has his home searched......

• Visit Turkey: The UN-Official Guide Istanbul is the city on which civilizations and empires have been built. It straddles Europe and Asia and its location on the Bosporus Strait has made it one of the most coveted cities in world history. The Bosporus Strait, after all, links the Black Sea to the Sea of......
• The Biggest Loser Couples Season 7, Episode 17 Video Recap with Pete Thomas It’s down to crunch time now with just five players left. Every person is now thinking about how they will align themselves for the final push. Ron and Mike control this game since they each have a vote to keep the other in the game. Make no mistake here; the...
• Turning Stone's Fourth Round Wrap Up It's been a pretty long time since we saw Matt Kuchar winning anything during the PGA Tour. It is because of this that we are not surprised he had a serious case of nerves when he ended up in a sudden death playoff during the fourth round of the Turning......

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• Enough with iPhone App-o-the-week roundups! This might just be the curmudgeon in me coming out but 18 months after the launch of the iPhone (I have 2 I love them too), do we really need every tech blog on the planet to be publishing weekly round ups of "the best" apps of the week?  They stopped being......
• #NBC laughs down its sleeve as #Ballmer pitches #Windows7 ON A #MAC Thanks to TUAW for running this piece.  It kinda made my week. I almost feel sorry for Steve Ballmer.  Not only does he get his great pitch spot for Windows 7 ruined by Matt Lauer constantly asking him questions about Apple and the iPhone but the wags in NBC's......
• A Tempest about Augmented Reality I blogged a while ago about a GREAT TED video on augmented reality (see below or archives). Engadget posted a fun piece today on that subject. I'm not convinced that what you see in the video is actually AR. I know enough about Final Cut Studio to know that all......

• Review of Devlin's Boatbuilding: How to Build Any Boat the Stitch-and-Glue Way by Samuel Devlin If you've been thinking about making your own boat, but you're worried that you don't have the kind of equipment or the time to really make a masterpiece, this book is simply an incredible resource that will make it easy. Although traditional methods of small boat manufacturing are time......
• Social Marketing Social Order Social Marketing Social Order By Matt T Foster The network marketing home business opportunity is one of the most promising concepts in the world of business today, especially in the midst of the business standing. Still relatively new, social marketing has suffered from being related to pyramid/Ponzi schemes that are......
• Three Key Things To Win Your Ex Back Are you bearing the pain and massive miserable from breaking up with your love ones? No matter what the situation are there is no way you can do to bring your ex lover back at this moment and you might be thinking the reason why he/she left you without a......

First they have the Danger/Sidekick user data loss and now I’m sure their branding police are going to be hiding under their desks with the release of a ridiculous TV ad that confuses the crap out of their new “brainchild” – Windows Phone. Read more…

• Who do you trust with your data? #mozy #backup #tech #mac As home computer use grows from playing DOOM to the occasional email and the casual 5 min session of web surfing into something more intrinsic to what we all do all day it becomes critical that the state and the data stored on that computer be protected.  As most of......
• #Windows7 is nothing like #Mac #OSX - "Trust us", #Microsoft If, like me you've been chuckling more than a little about the fact that a Sr Microsoftie Simon Aldous came clean was horribly mistaken earlier this week when he admitted inaccurately told the press that Windows 7 owes its look and feel to Apple's OS X. You'll be relieved that......
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• Windows Phone 7 Interface: Microsoft Has Out-Appled Apple - VIDEO Rather than accessing an app to get contact information and make a call to a person, open another app to get her Twitter updates, and then another app to get her Facebook updates, and another for her latest mails to you, and yet another one to watch her photos,......
• Neowin hands on: Windows Phone 7 Series UI Hands on with windows Phone 7 Series UI......
• Windows Phone 7 Here is an introductory video tour of Windows Phone 7 Series.......

Tiz a great shame when a really great idea and excellent execution isn’t enough to make a business successful.  Like so many other promising start-ups on the internet the URL shortening service Cli.gs will be making its last snip at the end of October.

This is particularly sad for us at NoOneDriving as we’ve been big supporters of Cli.gs over the last 9 months, using it exclusively as are shortening service. We are now transitioning that role over to bit.ly and as such will update previous posts over time to ensure that they are still available via a short URL.

It’s our hope that Pierre will be able to find a backer or buyer to keep the service going.  We wish him all the best.!

The Blog of Cligs – » Cligs Shutting Down.

• #Numan Readies for "Pleasure" Tour There's a flurry of news from Gary Numan today.  The media finally seem to have buried the hatchet with him and are gushing over the upcoming Pleasure Principle 30th anniversary tour. After years of being ridiculed by the UK music press, Gary is now enjoying their adoration.  Shame it......
• Microsoft: Lots to turn off in Windows 7 | Beyond Binary - CNET News This feels a little like snickering up my sleeve, but is Redmond really finally admitting that Winblows has been a bag of bloat-ware for years??  All those services that they so strenuously defended now, apparently, can be turned off quite safely after all. Amazing what a little competition and the looming wide scale  deployment......
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Internet, Technology

Cloud computing is the current darling of the IT business.  Companies all over are looking for new and exciting services to bring to market with no or low client footprint. Read more…

• Is Your Cat Worth It? - Crystalline Silica Normally I blog about tech, gadgets, gizmos, music or politics..... This post is different, I'm an avid cat lover, currently lucky enough to have 4 of them living with me. This post is about them. Before I tell you this story I must point out to you that these are......
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• Work begins on iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak | Apple - CNET News [/caption] To be honest I surprised it took them this long to get started on it.  Apple probably needs to figure out which one of its "we're sworn to secrecy under pain of death" developers is either the hacker or the hacker's friend but in the meantime it looks like......

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Apple, iPhone, Microsoft, Mobile, Sidekick, T-Mobile, Technology

If, like me, your professional life revolves around IT then you’re probably more familiar with Las Vegas than the rest of the planet.  Conventionville has me hostage again this week and, as now seems to be the norm, I’m entombed in The (chapter 11 friendly) Venetian resort, hotel & money funnel.   Read more…

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Theater, Trade shows, Vegas

Lately I’ve noticed a depressing plumet in half-way objective blogging about Apple on certain “mainstream” web sites.  All too often are they rushing to beat the drum on how Snow Leopard is just like Windows 7 – a bug fix…  Dream on people.

Read more…

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• Apple Adds Chinese Handwriting. Could this be more proof of a Mac tablet? There have been rumors flying around for months (if not years) about the "soon the be released" Apple tablet computer.  The closest we've come so far to actually getting such a device has been the iPhone.  Portable, connected and pretty full featured, internet-wise and built on the cult of the......
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• Kodak Alleges Patent Infringement by Apple and RIM [/caption] Kodak is challenging Apple and Research In Motion Limited (RIM) companies over alleged infringement of a camera technology patent. Kodak is claiming image preview technologies used in Apple's iPhone and RIM's camera-enabled BlackBerry mobile phones are covered by one of its patents. This follows a similar dispute with Samsung......
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Apple, Bigots, Exchange, iPhone, IT, Microsoft, Technology

As home computer use grows from playing DOOM to the occasional email and the casual 5 min session of web surfing into something more intrinsic to what we all do all day it becomes critical that the state and the data stored on that computer be protected.  As most of us know, having a hard disk fail or a motherboard die can not only be a buzz kill, it can wipe out your financial data, irreplaceable family photos and that Dylan collection you’ve spent half your life amassing. Read more…

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• Successful Telephony - A Best Practice Guide Start with what you haveA spot check on your existing telecoms strategy and current infrastructure will focus you on what you have now, and lead you onto what you need to do next. Design a simple scale (for example poor, average, good and excellent) and use it mark the......
• The Best Web Hosting   Every web hosting service provider thinks that they are the best and will stop at nothing to make you think the same. With so many web hosting companies to choose from, it might seem pretty tricky to choose the best one. All you really need to know in order......
• Erase your Internet Tracks   Erase your Internet Tracks   Do you know that your computer is also a recording machine? Your online and offline activities are not private as surfing tracks, downloaded files, cache, and some identifying data is stored on your computer’s hard drive. Internet Explorer saves a lot of information that......

Backup, Mac, Mozy, Support, Tecnology

Our Friends over at Giz’ have a nice piece on the latest incarnation of Android smartphone OS (as opposed to the Android fictional netbook OS).

What leaps at out me is that all the “gee whiz” features are things that the iPhone has had since 3.0 if not earlier.  I’m at a loss to understand the excitement over Android.  It’s not ground breaking. It doesn’t have the ease of use of iPhone OS X and it seems that all it’s hopeful of doing is replacing the truly hideous WinMob garbage from our friends in the inspiration and innovation starved North West.

It’s kind of the Linux of smartphone operating systems.  Everybody’s talking about it but nobody is really using it.  Like the Zune, I’ve still yet to see one being used on the street (maybe I just don’t get out enough).

So whether it’s a Donut or a Cupcake, I still ain’t buying it.

Gizmodo.

• Apple's WWDC 09 conference for iPhone and Mac developers sells out for a second year For the second year in a row Apple's annual World Wide Developer's Conference in San Francisco has sold out weeks before the event. This year all tickets were snapped up earlier than for 2008's conference, implying that demand was even higher despite our economic woes. Riding high on the success......
• Want an iPhone 3Gs from AT&T? - Forget it! #mac #iPhone AT&T have already sold out of their initial shipment of iPhone 3GS units.  If you haven't already placed your pre-order (and received a confirmation) then try Apple instead as it'll be a while before AT&T have them back in stock. It's hard to believe that after 2 full years of......
• Intel: A CPU in Every Pocket by 2011 #tech #iphone #smartphone One of things you have to trade off as a tech vendor is what you share with your partners & customers and what you keep secret.  Apple is at one end of the spectrum with their legendary secrecy.  Intel might be thinking about taking a page from their book as......

• Google OS A Solution not an Alternative Google OS Desktop-based operating systems have been a core component to computers for the last few centuries yet Google's Chrome OS claims to eliminate the desktop all together. Some feel that this approach is inline with the uptrend in cloud computing and a natural progression for the operating system while......
• Google Introduces Nexus One to Public After weeks of anticipation from techies the world over, Google has unveiled to members of the press the Nexus One, its first consumer electronics device previously known as the Google Phone.  Set to compete with Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry, the HTC-made Nexus One runs an updated......
• Qualcomm Snapdragon running Google Android OS www.slashgear.com at CES 2009......

Android, Communications, SmartPhone, Tech, Technology

Last night I put frustration aside and I waited the 4 minutes for my Blu-ray player to start playing Watchmen.  At 3+ hours it’s more film than most people have attention span for.  I was captivated…  A movie hasn’t done that to me at first watching since Blade Runner or Star Wars, and friends, that was a LONG time ago. Read more…

• EFF slaps Apple back for heavy-handed DMCA suit So one of Bill Clinton's less well thought through acts (apart from those involving blue cocktail dresses) was the DigitalMillenniumCopyright Act (DMCA). Apart from suffering the fate of having the all toocliché "Millennium" in its name, it suffers from being too broad, too vague and too encroaching on well established......
•   [/caption] Now I thought the first Transformers movie was pretty good.  No Oscar buzz there but a great popcorn flick.  The teaser for the sequel has me a little more excited.  Looks it's taking a bit of a darker twist.  The transformers have gotten a lot less cutesy and more......
• Next Movie | RUN, don't walk. Not the absolute worst movie of all time.  That honor still goes to Madonna's "Body of Evidence" but this turkey s certainly a contender...  Terrible dialog, appalling direction, totally ridiculous plot and Nick Cage doing the most obvious job of collecie checkie I've seen on screen in a long time. RUN, don't......

• Zynga Investor Calls Scamville Debate Irrelevant And Unfair Zynga investor Fred Wilson remained mostly quiet during the Scamville debacle in October. But he’s starting to talk now, and he isn’t happy. In a post about Etsy a few days ago a commenter brought up the Zynga/Scamville stuff. Wilson replied “Citing techcrunch on the zynga stuff is a......
• RIAA Wants Us to Pay Twice for Our Music In the past I've not really had an opinion on the RIAA. Their tactics of going after individuals is pretty ridiculous, but pirating software, music, and movies, etc. is still morally and ethically wrong. If someone creates a piece of work, whether software, music, movies, or any other digital art......
• The Legacy of Jaco Pastorius - Joe Sinaguglia For over twenty years now, the planet has been without the presence of Jaco Pastorius, the revolutionary electric bass player of the 70s. He was a member of the group Weather Report and later led his own bands. Sadly, the lifestyle caught up to him in 1987. Despite his death,......

30 years after its first release and meteoric rise to #1 in the UK album charts, Gary Numan is touring again with the Pleasure Principle album. Read more…

• Telekon - Reduxed....... I will always love Numan..... But why? OH Why???? Did Gazza only use that fab LED recreation of the original TeleTour set for only 5 of the songs???!!!! I mean I could understand it for the lesser numbers, but We Are Glass and I Die: You Die??? That was......
• Jackson dies, the web, Twitter and iTunes fail under the load #mj The second incident in a week that has strained the internet's infrastructure almost to it breaking point.  Following the Iran stories of last weekend, the news of the sudden death of Michael Jackson brought site after site to a grinding halt as fans and the public rushed to their......
• The London Times HATES The Web! #UK #web2.0 #tech Once thought of as a "serious" news outfit, it seems The Times has thrown standards to the wind and is resorting to taking cheap shots at technology they so obviously don't understand and lifestyles they so obviously can't afford. In a ludicrous but blistering "piece" (I won't give it the credit......

• Titleist Pro V1 Golf Ball The Titleist Pro V1 golf ball has been around for nearly nine years since it debuted in 2000 on October 11, and yet it is still the top ball in the game of golf. This top of the line golf franchise has proved that the Titleist Pro V1 is not......
• Ozine Online Magazine Review I am taking a break from my 6th installment for my internet coaches series to have a little diversion. I am regrouping on the series, and am not sure where it will go after the next post. However this could be part of the internet coaches and mentoring series since......
• Viking Classic in Madison Drawing Top Winners Nine previous majors winners along with the last four of the Viking Classic winners have come to be among the players committing to be playing in the upcoming Viking Classic, as the deadline for committing to the tournament passed on October 23, 2009. The defending champion, who is Will MacKenzie,......

80's, Music, Numan, Tour

The second incident in a week that has strained the internet’s infrastructure almost to it breaking point.  Following the Iran stories of last weekend, the news of the sudden death of Michael Jackson brought site after site to a grinding halt as fans and the public rushed to their favorite web sources to find out more. Read more…

• Twitter users are a fickle bunch! According to Neilsen Online, a company who measures internet traffic and sells the data to advertisers, Twitter users are a fickle bunch. They assert that 60% of people who sign up for Twitter don't return to the site after a month. Maybe someone needs to educate Nielsen about the nature......
• Brideshead - Relived So, yet again, back in the day (ie. the early 80s) there was a seminal event on British TV called "Brideshead Revisited".  Seminal not only for it's stunning narrative by Evelyn Waugh but seminal for it's stunning production.  Especially amazing as it was produced not by the venerable BBC but......
• VOA News - African Catholics March in Support of Vatican AIDS Policy If you ever needed a crystal clear example of how religion is a negative factor in society , I think this is it.  It's criminal for anyone to tell young people, whether they are African of not that using condoms helps promote the AIDS epidemic.  As a testament (every pun intended) to......

• Article Marketing Plan - 7 Steps For Creating an Effective Plan That Will Increase Web Traffic Article marketing requires a consistent effort to be successful. It's not enough to send out one article a month then expect an increase in visitors to your web site. You need to create an effective marketing plan that fits within your timetable.Steps for creating an effective article marketing plan1.......
• So Why Do You Need a Web Site? If your business has flourished in spite of not having a Web site, you’re probably wondering why you need one — or why you should take the time to develop one. Those of you who already have a Web site might not have seen any noticeable increase in your business.......
• The Birth of a Professional Web Site: Part Six Search Engine Preparation An important part of developing a successful web site is attracting a steady stream of targeted traffic.A significant amount of web site traffic originates from the major Search Engines. A Search Engine is a web site that indexes web pages. These sites run software programs called "Spiders" or "Robots"......

Internet, iTunes, Michael Jackson, Music, Twitter

With Iran exploding under their noses the major news networks (in the US at least) were powerless to do little but sit back and watch it happen.  With the activities of their correspondents cut short by the Iranian government all the likes of CNN could do was turn to social networking for its information. Read more…

• Controversy surrounds 'Bristlebots' book | Geek Gestalt - CNET News   [/caption] So now we have grown men and multi-million dollar corporations fighting over toothbrushes with tiny motors stuck to them.......   WTF?  Does anybody think this is patentable? (Well in the US who knows, you could probably get a patent for house numbers without too much trouble)....  It's a......
• Proposed law might make Wi-Fi users help cops | Macworld How many times have we got to go around this loop?  No body is saying that offenders (especially of child related crimes) should get an easy ride but this isn't the answer!  It's been debated god knows how many times in recent years but yet again Republicans from Texas bring......
• Is Your Cat Worth It? - Crystalline Silica Normally I blog about tech, gadgets, gizmos, music or politics..... This post is different, I'm an avid cat lover, currently lucky enough to have 4 of them living with me. This post is about them. Before I tell you this story I must point out to you that these are......

• Types of Coin Collecting Software Collecting different coins is a truly pleasurable and profitable type of hobby or endeavor. Most people who are novices in collecting encounter problems relating to having too many coins, and therefore they do not have an adequate amount of information about the coins that they have or about the coins......
• Debt-hit Dubai gets surprise $10 billion bailout [/caption] DUBAI - Abu Dhabi threw its flashy but debt-laden neighbor Dubai a $10 billion lifeline on Monday to head off a bond default, cheering Gulf and global markets but raising questions about the undisclosed terms. The surprise rescue should enable Dubai World to repay a $4.1 billion Islamic bond......
• Twitter - Is It a Money Maker? Can You Make Money Online from Twitter? - If you aren’t on Twitter yet then you are one of the few people who aren’t, and if you have never heard of Twitter then you must have been living in a jungle cave for the past year or two. Every internet......

Communications, Iran, Politics, Technology, The Internet, Twitter