Then you need …. An Iron Phone

Cleverly combining two of a womans favourite things ( ironing and talking ) into one handy little tool - yes the Iron-Phone really is the social-life saver you have been waiting for.

Now you need never miss that crucial chat with someone you’ll see in person later anyway, about the spotty guy from work and his small dinkle problem …

With 30 minutes of steaming, and 11 hours of talktime on a single charge, it’s powerful enough for even the most dedicated follower of fashion …

Tags: laundry, utility room, ironing, talking

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I’m not alone in this - which is why every high-street has a gadget-shop of some kind.

Sadly the human brain is wired so you can only think one of:

• “bling” is fashionable
• technology is clever
• voting Liberal Democrat is a good idea

Sadly, those always on the lookout for stupid people to buy utter crap for lots of money (aka snake-oil peddlers or marketers), have decided to once again combine tasteless “bling-bling” and hi-tech wizardry into the absolutely F-ing stupid concept that is …

The Google Vanity Ring

Yes, now you can look an utter prat and billy-no-mates at exactly the same time, simply by (more…)

Tags: gadgets, The Google Vanity Ring

It’s been around for a while, with active forums, comprehensive wiki, clans (alliances) and so forth, but takes a bit of planning and forethought to get into “late in the game” as I have - so here is a shortcut guide to getting your Empire up-and-running as quickly and efficiently as possible …

Get a good initial resource base

field workers need feeding, building staff need feeding, an army marches on it’s stomach … etc
so start by producing more food … and don’t forget buildings use clay, weapons are made from wood and iron … so your “fields” and the resources they produce are your lifeblood. (more…)

• One dark room
• 100 helium filled balloons
• 100 white LEDs
• Some string and servos
• Music by a Kraftwerk Addict

This simple formula of light, sound and acrobatic bubbles by designers “Electric MoOns” is either a masterpiece, or an experiment in causing people to up-chuck - you decide …

Electric MoOns Atom Dance Video

Tags: ballons, led lights, dance, acid techno, video

For those that missed his entry into the Big Brother House here’s the video summary …
Habitual Liar Liam Young Enters The Big Brother House

And for completeness sake, here’s link to the video of the lttle bollock-sucker getting evicted from the Big-Brother-House …
Liam Young BB Con Artist Gets Booted

One of the contestants (HouseMates as they’re called) is getting oxycuted by blogs and forums - Mr Liam Young of OxyUK / OxyTechnologies / OxyMorons etc…

I bumped heads with this pOXY muppet back when he was 16, claiming

We currently serve over 70,000 UK customers, and over 10,000 users from worldwide locations

which actually translated into

I’m a shitty little unknown affiliate for Lycos and I get paid a few $ if you sign-up under me

see Liam Young of OXYUK.Ltd

the following day he’d moved the few real clients he had and magically transformed into being a HostGator reseller
Oxy just a HG Reseller

18 months later business is going so well, on some forums he’s claiming 2 million domains on his servers, and on others he’s begging for $2 support jobs … Please employ me

You’d think someone with millions of domains, would be a Nominet member (www.nic.uk) rather than just a 1und1 customer … http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=oxyhost.co.uk

After getting shortlisted for the role on BB as an entrepreneur, he then reappears on the same forum that banned him for his bulshit last time - WebHostingTalk.com, asking How to lie about Turnover

The general thread on WHT is good background …
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=660543

As yet unconfirmed - and I REALLY am not going hunting for evidence on this - but there are multiple posts and comments about Liam Young doing himself Anal’y with a glowstick dildo - *nice* !

The DS:BB thread is already over 5 pages long, and currently if you’re not a member shows multiple adverts for gay dating agencies throughout the threads on Liam - do they know something we dont perhaps ?

*edit* I just checked back after fixing a typo and the DS:BB thread is touching *twenty-nine* pages !

ANDROIDS

This week the big-G registered and drop-caught a number of new domains now sitting on the G’s nameservers including…

• androidhandset.com
• androidhandsets.com
• androidmobile.com
• androidphone.com
• androidphones.com
• androidplatform.com
• androidsdk.com
• androidsoftware.com
• androidtechnology.com

Plus all the usual org/net variations.

No official comment has been made yet about the rumoured launch of the first human looking g-phone.

Personally I’m hoping it looks a lot like a cross between the current bionic woman, seven-of-nine and Caprica-6 with big buttons

The constant dross is on the goggle-box, designed either to make you conform, or simply to confirm that 99% of viewers are brain-dead like…

• 100 most unappaling songs ever
• 100 mind-numbing sports personalities
• 100 most repeated comedy moments
• 100 innuendos from a-n-other gay icon
• 100 worst farts left in a lift
• 100 ways to kill yourself over a list

etc.

Now normally I have enough to-do lists of my own to worry about, and that kind of cr@p gets well avoided, however the annual round-up of business c*ck-ups from Fortune magazine does at least hold some elements of humour… And CNN have kindly stuck it online for those of you who don’t normally read mags - the ones with *those* pictures in doesn’t really count as reading now does it - no matter how good the articles

#16

While working on an article about Microsoft, Wired contributing editor (and former Fortune writer) Fred Vogelstein receives a 13-page dossier about himself, describing him as “tricky” and his stories as “sensational.” The document, prepared by the company’s public relations firm, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, as background for Microsoft executives, was sent inadvertently to the writer

Quoted from CNN/Fortune Magazie

Fortune and The Business are well worth the ~£3/issue - go on, skip a starbucks to buy a copy and get some knowledge inside you, rather than brown slop that tastes like tarmac.

#3 Serverbeach

During a storm a power feed failure lead to the ServerBeach datacentre to switch onto generator power.
Sadly at SB the generators didn’t cover the aircon units, just the servers.
Internal temperatures quickly soared to 60+ degrees in the DC, meaning everything had to be immediately shut down to save the building catching fire.

Time for a design rethink lads ?

#2 Rackspace

Rackspace gets a lot of business out of their ficticious claims of 100% uptime, yet regularly suffer outages (as do all hosts).
In one peculiar incident a truck drove into their transformers, causing everything to switch to generators (like Serverbeach)
The RS back-up generators unfortunately lacked the proper cooling needed to sustain the power creation and so were pulled offline, taking all the websites with them.

The fanatics on the live-chat tried to lie about it, but the news was already public knowledge

#1 DreamHost

No list of DC fvckups could be complete without the multiple outages at DH - and my personal fave of 2007 the datacentre is on fire.
Apparently after a power problem, DH switched to generators which then caught fire. This tends to mean power stops
Servers start to go down, email stops, websites vanish - and not just a few - a serious number of customers found themselves without their hosting in the fire-prone DC, leading to several hundred angry clients posting negative feedback on the DH-Blog

Does no-one in the US actually *TEST* generators ?