Last In London

whew!

Many people have been a bit bothered by the prospect of the UK govt forcing each citizen to carry National Identity Cards...

I can understand why, given the little 'oops' by the Revenue and Customs dept in 2007:
2007 UK child benefit data scandal

But the latest 'oops' should put the dissenters at ease for a bit:

UK spends billions on high-tech IDs, forgets to buy card readers

this will never happen.  ;)

The whole picture - almost

microsoft's photosynth in action:

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/

Nice to have a play, but I'll have to come back when they have more pics to complete the picture.

and then I noticed the 5th...

Scratch that irony pipe-dream (previous post).

Just noticed the 5th most popular Digg story of the day:

Star Wars: Retold By Someone Who Hasn't Seen the Whole Thing

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

I'm logging off before this gets too depressing.

2nd most popular story of the day

Either this is a great example of crowd-sourced irony, or the Digg user group is a LOT geekier than I'm willing to admit.

Behold, the second-most popular 'story' of inauguration day:

I have a very bad feeling about this

In the future

Well it's about time! 

World’s first flying car prepares for take-off
Sunday Times

Ho Ho NOOOOOOOOO!!!

And another reason I love Christmas:  Santa Claus.

Too bad these little tykes don't feel the same.

Prepare yourself for a few minutes of Christmas joy:  holiday horrors

useful tools

14 ovens or 17 wheelie bins? That - I can picture.

But 2 cubic metres is another story...

which is why I love this site:  http://sensibleunits.com/

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).

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