Last In London

My folder's full of cook-ies, eatin up my memory

This is bound to be a classic.  This new video from Seagate MUST win the hearts of IT teams everywhere.  I know I've already passed it on to mine.

I'm goin buy ba-by, a new disk drive ba-by.
1.5, tera-byte, stack the memory to the sky...

Happy Holidays

I love Christmas.  I love the ice skating, the decorations, the overwhelming urge to hug strangers, the obsession with nostalgia, the sachrine-sweet holiday songs and movies and yes, even the family gatherings during which all of my siblings and I regress to our 8, 9 and 10-year-old bickering selves. 

But I especially love buying gifts for people, which is why I love this sweet and simple John Lewis ad:

(and it's also a reminder of how much I hate gift cards).

cures

Just in time to pull me out of a tech-defunct pity party:

live puppycam!

- the most-viewed channel on ustream (nearly 2.5mm unique views since launch last month, and over 66,000 hours of puppy oggling goodness).

Free video streaming by Ustream

curses

September:  External hard drive dies
October:  Blackberry lands in puddle, fries
November:  ipod peters out; Macbook screen shatters during my sleep

But this? this is too much:

Either I'm repelling technology, or Magneto Man and I are meant for each other (in 10 years or so):

12-year-old "Magneto Man" breaks every computer he touches

Coming in 42 minutes - my most creative moment

It's 9:10PM, and after a full day of dueling laptops (why work on 1 when you distract yourself with 2?!), I'm finally in full swing...  Slides are filling up faster than my neglected Bloglines account, and I have to pause every now and again to revel in my expedience. 

Which reminded me of this interesting article from Telegraph:

Brainwave most likely to strike at 10:04 PM

And 4:33 is your least creative moment of the day.

I couldn't agree more, and only wish that this survey went a bit deeper (and was conducted by a more credible research firm than the Crowne Plaza hotel chain).

Another interesting point in the report:
"58 per cent of people forget their best ideas by failing to write them down immediately, although women are more successful at keeping note of their brainwaves."

Hmm... Are women more successful at writing them down, or do women just have more 'best ideas?'
Discuss.

Image courtesy of Slashdot.

(that's right - news for nerds)

"Let's make together - Imagination."

Just goes to show, enthusiasm for what you do will get you everywhere. (and a great product doesn't hurt).

Thanks to Techcrunch for uploading the full version of this video - reviewing a mobile tagging app from Tonchidot that seems more reliant on crowdsourcing than the presenters would like to admit. 

Skip to minute 8 to see Takahito Iguchi's enviable evasion tactics.

scary facebook ads

The "still single?!" targeted facebook ads are bad enough...  why do I deserve this?