Picasa Web Albums - Stroker - Poppy the Puppy

Picasa Web Albums - Stroker - Poppy the Puppy

Check out Poppy the Lhasa Apso the latest addition to the family :) she's a Tibetan Mountain Dog. A BIG dog in a small body :)

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Community Chest

Community Chest The guys working with my amigos from Unfrozenmind. Check them out for some serious mind expansion :) I've been hanging out with them in World of Warcraft for the past few weeks. The clans called 'First among Equals' if your interested. AND before you mock you want to check out the 'Serious Gaming' proposition

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Flock Post

This is my first post to Magicbullet using Flock

File Optimisation

I like the look of I-Logik



File optimisation of jpegs, word docs, powerpoints and assorted other goodness, can be run on your networks or on your individual machines, compression can save up to 60% in file size. I think we could use this on our corporate portal, it also has plugins for Outlook express. Tres bon

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Virtual Appliances

Virtual Appliances



I am planning to build up a stack of demonstrations around Open Source OS's and various tool that exist out there, and the best way of doing this? The free VMware Player and the concept of Virtual Appliances, check it out if you haven't already, pre built, certified machines.

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Meebo widgets

Well i have to say that the meebo widget has been a great success so far in providing expert help from our groups intranet site, however you gotta love this i got asked the following



"People have raised concerns that 'the meebo' could infect documents on the website with open source code"



I have pointed out that the widget is a Adobe Flash object and not 'Open Source' do we think that some general information sharing as to Open Source is required?



Answers on a postcard......................

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Performancing

These last two posts are using the performancing plugin for Firefox, very easy to use intuitive editor that allows me to post directly to my blogger account. I like tools that are easy and i have to hand all the time!!

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Meebo added for proactive chat

Well i've added a MeeboMe widget to the serviceofferings webpage as a means of proactively contacting users that visit our homepage. Will be an interesting experiment to also see how many people are actually looking at the site

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Adventures in Ubuntu

Well Day three has come and gone and i'm really enjoying the OS. Its smooth, quick, my laptop battery doesn't go down as quick. I'm most impressed by how easy the Open Office Suite is to use, i get emailed doc's and ppt's all the time to read and review and the interaction is seamless i can open, read, edit and save the documents and then send them all back using Microsoft's propietary formats. No one in CSC would know that they've been edited using Open Source software

Adventures in Ubuntu

Day 2
After using Sametime 7.5 and the Lotus Notes Web client, i decided to investigate WINE, this is an open source Binary compatability layer for linux that allows certain Windows programmes to be run natively in Linux, so as you can see, here's the proper Lotus notes client running on Ubuntu. Its all good!!

Adventures in Ubuntu

Adventures in Ubuntu.
Right i've decided to go Open Source, My IBM T42 is now dual boot and i'm running Windows XP (or rather i aim not too) and Ubuntu. So far Ubuntu is a doddle to install, nice friendly GUI, easier than Windows. I've decided to run this experiment for a month to see if i can do my job in the EIC without using Windows. I'm going to doc the trials and tribulations here. So far so good though, my machine now boots and turns on in seconds rather than minutes :) the main reason i'm attempting this is that i now have Corporate messaging systems in place that mean i don't have to rely on Microsoft. I've installed the Lotus samtime linux client and i'm using the web based Notes client. Linux HAVE released a notes client plugin but i'll doc that install later :)

Live Writer Post

First post to test the BETA of Windows Live Writer, see how it works

Luke's Stag Do

Portal Tech

Sure everybodies seen this but how cool is this trailer? Portal one of the funniest game trailers i think i've ever seen, plus genius physics!

Collaborative environment

Check out OpenCroquet open source 3d interactive world toolkit kit built on Squeak and Smalltalk, i've donwloaded the beta, its quite cool, works differently to a multiplayer gaming environment as in there is no central server, rather it works on a peer to peer synchronisation format.

Display Tech

Things i'm looking at for the Innovation Centre in terms of display technology.
going to go and see an Israeli company called MagInk that make digital signage, its a lightweight as paper yet can transfrom itself with images (full colour) and will fun video at 50fps! seems cool

MagInk

Also going to go and see a company called Betaminds, they are UK resellers of a heliodisplay, now this is cool an image is projected onto a wall of compressed air, very high tech although the geeks out there will remember the same thing in Captain Bridger's stateroom in SeaQuest DSV (don't even ask how my memory remember stuff like this!!)

BetaMinds

i've got the SUSE feeling

SUSE is awesome

Yamaha raided over China exports

BBC NEWS - Yamaha raided over China exports... Look, I already told you; this has NOTHING to do with my Tokyo trip.

Honestly... what must you think?

Bizarre: Nuns suspended for going on wild Club 18-30 holiday

Bizarre: Nuns suspended for going on wild Club 18-30 holidayHoly Mary mother of God!! now thats religion!!

It's been proved: Testosterone linked to driving ability....

'Bad' women drivers: hormone link: "

Studies looking at finger length ratio have suggested that, in men a long ring finger and symmetrical hands are an indication of fertility, and that women are more likely to be fertile if they have a longer index finger.

My ring finger is approximately 10 cm longer than my index finger and my hands are perfectly symmetrical... only ladies with short ring fingers need apply!

BostonHerald.com - Local/ Regional News: Boston terror threat probed

BostonHerald.com - Local/ Regional News: Boston terror threat probedPlans to NUke Boston??? Dublin apparently terrified!!!

RESEARCHERS REPORT BUBBLE FUSION RESULTS REPLICATED

RESEARCHERS REPORT BUBBLE FUSION RESULTS REPLICATED

I for one welcome our US overlords!!! its the near space sky police!!

Ford Vehicles: I want one of these!!! look cool down Fleet high street

Ford Vehicles:

ABC News: Obese Dancers Break Stereotypes in Cuba

ABC News: Obese Dancers Break Stereotypes in CubaFat balllet dancers?? mmmmm smell the meat and potatoes

KeepMedia | Weekly World News:The Eiffel Tower Is A Portal To Hell

KeepMedia | Weekly World News:The Eiffel Tower Is A Portal To Hell

Silly "Axis of Evil" becomes "Outposts of Tyranny." New members appear to have signed up

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | At-a-glance: 'Outposts of tyranny'

NEWS.com.au | US military wanted 'sex bomb' (January 14, 2005)

NEWS.com.au | US military wanted 'sex bomb' (January 14, 2005)The only gay in the village????? not with this bomb!!!

Local10.com - News - Secret Service E-Mails Read By Alleged Hacker

Local10.com - News - Secret Service E-Mails Read By Alleged Hackercue benny hill music............................

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Iapetus moon bulges at the sides

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Iapetus moon bulges at the sidesCassini again proving its value for money!! in terms of scientific knowledge it is priceless, i like it more for the wonder it inspires, providing us with images of different worlds!!

BBC NEWS | Health | Gene clue to HIV origin in humans

BBC NEWS | Health | Gene clue to HIV origin in humansThere is Nothing we as humans can't find an answer too, makes you question religious faith and indoctrination. Science IS THE KEY

Armour piercing "hunting" rifle sold in 49 states because of alarming number of deer wearing armour

CBS News | Big Rifle A Terrorist Tool? | January 9, 2005�20:30:09Genius

Thats not a moon its a space station!!!

Gizmodo : CES Showfloor: Samsung 80-Inch PlasmaLook at size of it!!!

Kirsten Dunst survives tsunami -- her bikini however not so lucky

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Boy, whose 22-year-old female volleyball coach was forced by police to stop having sex with him, has become depressed, his mother says

Female volleyball coach charged with having sex with player | The Janesville Gazette | Janesville, Wisconsin, USAHaha!! yea i bet!! 22 year old female volleyball player???? sounds like a match made in heaven to me, i wonder if he got extra credit?

School has policy that leaves wheelchair-bound students inside burning buildings

TheKSBWChannel.com - Education - School Emergency Policy: Leave Wheelchair-Bound Kids BehindGenius!! Every man for himself!! its like the episode of the office!!

Super massive black hole creates bubbles in the universe, blames dog

Yahoo! News - Biggest Space Explosion Creates Giant Bubbles

Woman killed in crash had boa constrictor wrapped around her neck

WEGW-FM

komo news | 'I'm Having The Time Of My Life Out Here'

komo news | 'I'm Having The Time Of My Life Out Here'Despite not knowing if Star Wars Episode 3 will open at the Cinerama, man lines up 22 weeks prior to release

Age of Empires III HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED!!!

Official Age of Empires III website has been launched by Ensemble Studios after a long countdown. The screenshots look awesome - but will it match Generals for longevity?

When's it due? Who knows... I am sure they do.

Monkey fetus juice fights Parkinson's, wins

Yahoo! News - Stem Cells Reverse Parkinson's in MonkeysYay!!! go Monkey Juice!!!

Yahoo! News - Cleric Suspect Misses Hearing Due to Long Toe Nails

Yahoo! News - Cleric Suspect Misses Hearing Due to Long Toe NailsAl Qaeda's genius tactics at work, the West will never win with men like this fighting us!!

WFTV.com - News - Mysterious 4,000-Pound Buoy Washes Up On Cocoa Beach

WFTV.com - News - Mysterious 4,000-Pound Buoy Washes Up On Cocoa Beach: "Mysterious 4,000-Pound Buoy Washes Up On Cocoa Beach" hmm......lost by our Atlantean overlords maybe?

CNN.com - Sheriff posts snipers�after firings - Jan 4, 2005

CNN.com - Sheriff posts snipers�after firings - Jan 4, 2005There's a new sheriff in town, and he's posting snipers on the roof!!!

Little robots eat flies to survive!!

Science News DailyJesus its the Matrix!! All hail our robot overlords!!

NewsFromRussia.Com Russia develops new nuclear missile systems, Putin states

NewsFromRussia.Com Russia develops new nuclear missile systems, Putin statesAll hail our Soviet Masters!!

Holy Grail may be in Canada, Indinana Jones called in

Oak Island Money Pit

nbc4i.com - News - Family Complains About Public Access Porn On Christmas Morn

nbc4i.com - News - Family Complains About Public Access Porn On Christmas Morn Oh the hell of it!!!

Intruders break into wrong house, apologise. 29/12/2004. ABC News Online

Intruders break into wrong house, apologise. 29/12/2004. ABC News OnlineOnly in the good old UK would the criminal fraternity be so polite!! harkens back to Dickensian times i feel..........

Wired News: The Best Games You Haven't Played

Wired News: The Best Games You Haven't PlayedAfter many a week away the blog that spits venom at the world returns!!

Bloglines - Reinventing the wheel (couldn't resist)

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Engadget Engadget Updated: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:10 PM

Reinventing the wheel (couldn't resist) By Simon Spagnoletti Apparently tired of the overtly flashy stuff, the latest robots out of Japan are simple wheels. Built by Shinichi Hirai and Yuuta Sugiyama, they are four cm in diameter and one cm thick and move by changing shape. The spokes of the wheel are made of a shape-memory alloy, a substance that shortens when heated, and the picture does a pretty good job of explaining the movement (so we don’t have to). They’re powered by copper wires right now, but a battery-powered version is planned, as well as a ball-shaped design using a bunch of the robots. The best part is that they weren’t made for any particular reason. These guys were probably sitting in a lab one day and one of them said something like “I like wheels. Let’s see what we can do with that.” And the rest was history. Tue, 6 Jul 2004 04:24 PM

Hotel calls disgruntled punter a 'tw*t' | The Register

Hotel calls disgruntled punter a 'tw*t' | The RegisterHahaha!!! brilliant this doesn't need any elaboration from me!!

Christian Exodus :: Come Out of Her, My People

Christian Exodus :: Come Out of Her, My PeopleAnd here it is folks following on from the last post is the official site of the christian nut jobs!!!! damn i bvet Jesue is well proud of these guys.....................

And you thought the Libertarians were bad || kuro5hin.org

And you thought the Libertarians were bad || kuro5hin.org this is very worrying but the author's reposte is very funny!! see not all americans are mental, just it seems the ones who vote..................

The 100 Worst Porn Movie Titles !

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The New York Times > Science > A Very Muscular Baby Offers Hope Against Diseases

The New York Times > Science > A Very Muscular Baby Offers Hope Against DiseasesGenetic mutation producing a superior human? surely this kid is the first x man??? quick get professoe x on the phone!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Virtual island way to green life

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Virtual island way to green life Its Rob's World...............the game!!!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Toshiba develops tiny fuel cell

BBC NEWS | Technology | Toshiba develops tiny fuel cell I like this. Fuel cell tech, just what the world needs to see, we need new tech that improves our lives and doesn't knacker the planet too much!!

Slashdot | U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011

Slashdot | U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 Like we didn't know this already!! the DDX destroyers can be seen on the department of defense's website!!! be nice to see a rail gun in action though, and portable versions thats where the trick is!!

Boing Boing: Successful test liftoff for John Carmack's XPrize contender craft

Boing Boing: Successful test liftoff for John Carmack's XPrize contender craftits DOOMed for sure!!!

see thru Khazi

Tagebuch eines Internetjunkies / Weblog Haha this is class an outside public toilet built entirely of two was glass!!! do you think you'd be able to relax enough to go????

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | The super-fast future of computing

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | The super-fast future of computingAnd just to carry on the theme with a bit more reading...................

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Teleportation breakthrough made

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Teleportation breakthrough madeTeleportation!!! nice!! this is the kind of science that makes you sit up and take notice!! massive application usage in computing, about time we had a quantum shift away from silicon to the next stage of processing power!!

Salon.com News | Man jumps from helicopter at Grand Canyon

Salon.com News | Man jumps from helicopter at Grand CanyonNow this is depressed!!!!

Wired News: The Son of Patriot Act Also Rises

Wired News: The Son of Patriot Act Also RisesIn the land of the free and the home of the brave!!! makes me want to move there right now!! The current administration have realised more constitutional change out of sept 11th than any other previous administration. The government is at its most powerful whilst also being at its most secretive. The Pres has gthe power now to make all kinds of decisions without oversight. Which is quite concerning, considering the general belief that he is controlled by a cabal of hawks that consist of most of his dads mates!!

Slashdot | Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored Vehicles

Slashdot | Electric Armor Tested For Light Armored VehiclesElectric armour? surely this could also be described as a deflector shield? Not even the orginal enterprise the nc01-a had that. they had ablative armour!! come on you Brits!!

Mirror, mirror on the wall - who is the most connected of them all?

UK Home - Mirror, mirror on the wall - Royal Philips Electronics. Look at this one - we live in the future.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Stealth ships steam ahead

BBC NEWS | Technology | Stealth ships steam aheadNice!!! Stealth warships!! Unlike the British Type 47 and the American DDX ships this Swedish number is made entirely of Carbon Fibre!!! Stealthy as a mo fo' however you wouldn't fancy your chances if you got hit with a surface to surface missile!!

Amusing places close to you

Amusing places close to youSome light heartedness for a change on the bullet, just enter your postcode (have to use GU13 for fleet its old software!!) also try SA155YY (my old address in Wales for some comedy locations!!

BBC NEWS | Technology | BT transforms phone network

BBC NEWS | Technology | BT transforms phone network.

Apparently all of that dark fibre may one day be lit up and laid! At last Lewis may get his broadband access... but it's not all good news...

Mr Beal hinted, however, that the cheap broadband telephony deals available at the moment may not continue.

"The charging model of today may not be realistic in five years time," he said.

Wired News: Water to Boost Satellite Snooping

Wired News: Water to Boost Satellite SnoopingWater powered self sustaining sattellites?? fantastic idea, clode loop regenerative power cells, definetely the way forward!! good ol DARPA getting on with thye future again!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Satellite images 'show Atlantis'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Satellite images 'show Atlantis'Anybody remember 'Warlords of Atlantis' starring my hero Doug Mcclure??? Quality adventure movie!! And now some German guy reckons he's found the place off the coast of Spain!! Some things should remain mythical i think!! adds to the glamour and intrigue!!

Media Center Pc mmmm pretty!!!

Akihabara News : toutes les nouveaut�s High-Tech du pays des SushisCheck these shots of the Sony vaio media center pc!! got a liquid cooling system built in!!! nice!!

fight aging - extend your life

The Longevity Meme -- live healthily - fight aging - extend your lifeThis is a really interesting article, the author predicts using models that the average human life span could be extended (with you looking youthful the entire time) to around 1000 years. Would you choose to do this??? do you want to see the future? would we become more intelligent if we had the oppurtunity to learn more? Would this only be available to the rich Western societies? He's used death models to show how many people die in different countries every year from natural causes!! staggering number of people karking it every day!! His figures reckon that in the entire history of man around 34 billion of us have walked the planet of which 28 billion have already died!!

Hmm self healing self managing OS?

Run to the hills it sounds like bloody SkyNet to me!!

Bank of Ireland chief quits over PC porn

Bank of Ireland chief quits over PC porn | The RegisterFinally a blog thats close to my heart!!! i wonder whether Smithy sent him this???

Consumable Wireless Camera Capsule

Consumable Wireless Camera CapsuleHow mad is this? Its like Inner Space or Fantastic Voyage for the youth of today!!! a consumable camera?? i might buy one just for a laugh!!

TIA lives? Report lists US gov 'dataveillance' activities

TIA lives? Report lists US gov 'dataveillance' activities | The RegisterThis is a bit worrying, on the one hand do you want the government to be able to datamine for information that may protect you against terrorist attacks? that has to be a worthwhile goal, however the current administrations policy of preemptive control as opposed to the traditional American isolationist principles make it a much more worrying proposition. Information can be used badly and it can also be manipulated to prove the case for harming people and countries. Seems like we are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, here's hoping for regime change in Washington later on in the year. Principles shoule be an inherent trait of government not a 4 year term of office

CIA fears Iran duped U.S. into Iraq war

CIA fears Iran duped U.S. into Iraq war - (United Press International)This would be a major turn up for the books this is clandestine manipulation on a Mossad scale if the Iranian intelligence service have managed to trick the US and by proxy GB into ousting Saddam, although i'm not sure what their reasons would be, i suppose the country is now destabilised and they can send agitators in themselves......makes you wonder though

Wired News: Virtual Dopers Crave High Scores

Wired News: Virtual Dopers Crave High ScoresVirtual crack and people dying in online games, just shows how the digital world replicates the real world!! we constantly crave the next exciting thing, humans eh?? you gotta love us, this kind of demographic behaviour shoots Rob's communist commune theories right out of the water, as nice as we pretend to be we're basically still going to want more than the next guy!!

Cell processor in a tv?? mmmm technology

News for nerds writes "Sony Corp plans to offer a broadband television by 2006 that would incorporate the powerful new 'Cell' processor it is developing with IBM Corp. and Toshiba Corp. The Cell processor is expected to power the upcoming PS3 console, a workstation, server, and other home appliances to form Cell-based P2P network. The sample production of the processor has already started. In PlayStation 3, TV props you!"

Rude Boy Computing

In the Max Power world, guys soup up Nova's and Clio's in our world we get Half Life 2 modded boxes with 7 yes count em' seven fans!!

Life, the Universe and why stats can make you feel better

Life eh?? whats the point of it all? We get up every day, shower, dress (iron a t shirt) leave the house and either get in our cars (or other peoples) and travel to a place of work. Sit there for 7.5 hours (maybe have some lunch) then turn around and head home. We relax, watch tv and sleep, then we do it all again. Its kinda depressing to think that in this week where Scientists (you go guys) have discovered that the UNIVERSE is actually a billion years older than they thought it was (14.3 instead of 13.3) that we spend so much of our infitisamal time on the planet in such mundane pursuits!!! Average life span of a western man in the UK, what is it now? 86 maybe? 90 possibily, so i'm sitting here at 28 (soon to be 29) that's a third of my time used up already (at the high end as well!!!) a third!!! thats ridiculous!! i haven't DONE ANYTHING YET!!! and i've used a third of the time up!! This of course is a failing in our species as our young are so crap they can't do anything on their own for the first 18 years (some parents may disagree with this low figure!!) So technically if you remove the first 18 years from the figure of 90 that leaves us with 72, and then technically i've only been independent for 10 years so really i'm only 1 seventh of the way thru my life!!!! Damn thats a relief i was starting to get depressed about that!!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | EU 'confident' of star power site

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | EU 'confident' of star power site: "One kilogram of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000 kg of fossil fuel" Thats a pretty amazing fact!!! look slike Fusion will become the norm in a few years time, at least in the West anyway, don't think this will transpose or filter to the poorer nations anymore easily than Nuclear power has. Looks like the gap is about to get bigger people!! Its a dog eat dog world, and we're a great big snarly mastiff

Christian Reconstructionism - The Foundation of Modern Conservativism || kuro5hin.org

Christian Reconstructionism - The Foundation of Modern Conservativism || kuro5hin.orgAnd in the right corner we have the Christian reconstructionists..............nutters all of them!!

UK's RAF planned WMD delivery via 'pigeons of death' | The Register

UK's RAF planned WMD delivery via 'pigeons of death' | The RegisterRule Britannia!!! We do things differently over here don't we, hard a snails but a little bit quaint!!!

Wired News: Los Alamos Lab Loses More Data

Wired News: Los Alamos Lab Loses More DataWhoops!!! wonder where this has gone then? lets hope some budding sci guy hasn't wiped it clean and used it to take a load of porn home!!!

Rob's going to love this..........

Make Some Useful ShitRun and hide quickly before Rob tries to get us all to install one of these bad boys!!

Sexiest Geek Alive - 2001 Hall Of Fame

Sexiest Geek Alive - 2001 Hall Of FameMust.......not.........take......piss...........
strength failing......must mock geeks........even though
may be one myself...(talk like william shatner in ST-TOS thats the original series for you none geeks!!!)

Where'd we put 'em? US to buy Stealth bomber detecting radar | The Register

Where'd we put 'em? US to buy Stealth bomber detecting radar | The RegisterWhat a good idea, develop a trechnology that counteracts an important American military product then threaten to sell it to foreign powers!! normally wouldn't you just end up floating face down in the Danube courtesy of Delta Force??? These guys must've been quaking in their boots before this sale went through!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cosmos 'a billion years older'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cosmos 'a billion years older'So the Universe is 14.7 billion years old not 13.7 billions years old, and our lifespan has just gone up to about 80 years since 1950.............does anybody in the Vatican read this stuff? How can rational people subscribe to a Deity GOD figure when we live in this digital age. the universe is 14.7 billions years old for god's sake!!! What do they think happened? God created that then went down the boozer for 14.699999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999 years and 30 mins then got back and thought 'bugger i better get on an create Earth' then he left that for a couple of million years snuffed out the Dinosaurs (big mistake...... he doesn't like talking about it!!) then he created Man in his image!!!! DO ME A FAVOUR!!!!!!

Sony Global - Sony Design

Sony Global - Sony DesignCool as a cool thing!!! bendable computing!!! i envisage a pen like communicator with a roll out tft like screen with full video communication, humans kick ass when it comes to inventing stuff!!!

Dolphin skin key to subaquatic speed | The Register

Dolphin skin key to subaquatic speed | The RegisterYes but would you seriously get into a submarine that had skin technology that was based upon the principle of flaking off every two hours??? call me a scaredy cat but that sounds a bit dodgy!!

Work induces catatonia: official | The Register

Work induces catatonia: official | The RegisterIts finally official, work can induce catatonic states, these are usually found to occur in the afternoon in management type meetings??? shock horror at this annoucment then!!

Barcelona nightclub chips customers | The Register

Barcelona nightclub chips customers | The RegisterWave of the future, its only a matter of time before technology such as this becomes the norm, it is already used in the pet passport scheme sub dermal chips that can be read by bar code scanners at ports allow your animals in and out without a quarantine period. Why bother with the national identity card scheme, lets all get chipped instead!!

baltimoresun.com - A hand-held translator is boon to GIs in Iraq

baltimoresun.com - A hand-held translator is boon to GIs in IraqIts a universal translator!!! just like in Star Trek!!! only a matter of miniturisation and we're away i'm sure loads of the world's problems would be resolved if people understood each other!! General Custer had that problem at little big horn, he was saying 'look lads we just want to talk' which translated into cherokee turned into 'oi red face i'm going to kill you and feed your children to the old women' and look what happened there!!!!

Optical Camouflage

Optical CamouflageGotta love the Japanese, ingenious little bunch!!! and this tech is still in its early days (in the public eye at least) who knows where other countries are with this? battalions of soldiers in this gear remaining virtually invisible in the jungle............cool and the gang

Pulse Detonation Engine Technology Project

Pulse Detonation Engine Technology Project Check this out amigo, current thinking is that the military are always about 12 years ahead of current known technology, this pulse detonation engine is the engine meant to be powering the Aurora aircraft, consistently able to travel at plus Mach 6 effeciently and the main reason the SR71 was decommishioned

House Committee approves DOD budget

House Committee approves DOD budget
War Huh? What is it good for? absoute.......well its good for about 422.2 billion dollars in defence spending this fiscal year!!! not a bad little pay out for the army navy and airforce. Did you realise that they also compete technology wise against each other, each branch is developing its own UAV technology, madness!!! but strangely enough all this money is being spent, especially in the area of quick technology turnaround for the battlefield, and yet DARPA has had its money cut down by over a 100 million dollars, this to me is strange?? they are the cutting edge and if they aren't who is??