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The Facebook Addiction

I’m sure I’m not the only person to notice this nor the only person to dedicate a blog post to it! There’s an addiction running through the country but for the life of me I cant understand why even though I’ve been afflicted myself. I mean there are people who seem to spend all their day on the thing and the only benefit I can see is to be really annoying to other people (for the last time I don’t want to be a vampire or a werewolf, and I sure as hell don’t have enough friends that I want to sell any of them) Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: Miscellaneous 1 Comment » January 2008


Rise of a new Sun for MySQL

Depending on your point of view this is either really good news or the most worrying development in open source for a long while, Sun Micro have purchased the MySQL. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: Software No Comments » January 2008


Re cut Trailers

There are lots of people on the internet are quiet creative when they set their mind to it, just lately I’ve gone through a spell of finding recut movie trailers amusing and thought provoking. Just making you wonder what it might of been like with the fiml made this way.

Something else it does make me think though, if a person with limited funds and limited footage can create hype around something none existant, just what can some one with much greater funds and the ability to shoot more video to back up their story, make look believable, i.e. A large media corporation faking a story ala Wagging The Dog Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: Miscellaneous, Video No Comments » January 2008


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Posted by Andy Posted in: Miscellaneous No Comments » January 2008


Return of the iMac

Finally its back, I didn’t realise how much I had missed it until I got it back. My iMac is back on my desk where it belongs and while it’s been gone I have managed to get my room rearranged. I now have my own little corner to be a geek in. It’s light and spacious, much better than where i used to be. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: Miscellaneous No Comments » January 2008