Archive for August, 2005

iPod, iTunes, iHateIt and Mr. Propriety’s New Phone

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Why are half the world sheep? What is their obsession with buying expensive, highly restrictive, propriety technology in the shape of iPods?
I have a Creative Zen Touch (40 GB). At time of purchase, it was over half the price of the iPod of equivalent storage space, had over three times the battery life and allowed [...]

10 Things Guys Wish Girls Knew

Monday, August 29th, 2005

I found these from an article obviously aimed at the opposite sex (possibly originally from a girls’ magazine), and thought I’d give my opinion on them just for something to do.
1. Calling you on the phone does not mean what you think it means.
Damn straight. A phone is just a communication device, not necessarily the [...]

EVE Online and the rest of my life

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Firstly, I refer to EVE Online. For those of you not in the know, EVE Online (or sometimes just called EVE) is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game. It is set in the future, in space and the story behind it goes something like this:
In the distant (?) future, human space flight is commonplace and [...]

About Blogging

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

“In August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website. Fourteen years on, he tells BBC Newsnight’s Mark Lawson how blogging is closer to his original idea about a read/write web.”
BBC News

For those of you who think blogging is strange and something done only by the odd, and I know that applies to some of [...]

Cloning: Grow your own… chicken nuggets

Monday, August 15th, 2005

“Scientists believe the technology already exists to directly grow processed meat like a chicken nugget.”

BBC News

So we could grow ready processed meat from individual cloned cells. Once perfected it effectively means we would no longer need to kill animals to produce meat - just take a one or two cells from them. Certainly this sounds [...]

Bobbikk and Winston Churchill

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

Just so I don’t cause offence, they’re not related to one another (the two topics of this post that is).
Firstly, upon returning I’ve been sent a few more songs from Bobbikk (remember him?), so I’ve updated his website and so if you get up and go to www.bobbikk.cjb.net then you will find his newest songs [...]

I is back!

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

.. From my holidays (with newly found bad grammer). An excellent two weeks it was. And how weird it feels to be back.
So many places I’m been and seen that I’ll probably want be describing them in a few posts.
Also, I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - what a book. There were more [...]