Semi-Random Youtube Vid

If any of you are even vaguely interested in American Warfare history, you will absolutely love Food Fight. Whichever genius decided to re-enact world History with Burgers and Kebabs deserves to be knighted.
There's a cheat sheet, that tells you what foods are what countries but that ruins the fun.

Food Fight

This is just classic.

P.S. For those of you using Firefox (you bloody well better be!), should consider downloading the extension "Better YouTube", it gives you some great stuff like a "Download this video" link which has unfortunately been blocked by the school, and the Holy Grail of youTube surfing : FlowPlayer. I swear it should be standard on YouTube, (but without the full-screen watermark).

Windows 7

There aren't many great things about Windows 7 as far as I can see, mostly because all the great things are just the same great things from Vista. We're up to Milestone 3 and it still looks like Vista and it doesn't even have the Microsoft customary icon freshen-ups. But there is only one thing that excites me, and that's that they've fixed the major problem of Vista needing an über-computer just to run in anything resembling smoothness. However, there are now screenshots of Win7 running on a mid-spec Pentium 3 machine. hooray!

One problem though, seeing as Vista required such impressive machine specs, and by the time that Win7 arrives, there won't be that many XP users around anymore, so we'll all have already upgraded so we'll be running Windows 7 on über-computers, even though we don't need them...

Did i hear too little, too late?

here are the Screenshots

Problems with following this blog

It's fixed!

(Makes you feel so much better when you say that!)

Now it is possible to follow this (great, if i don't say so myself) blog without it returning an "ERROR 400"

Turns out the problem was with the Blog Title, you may notice that it now reads _-_-_-Ferret_-_-_-_Tech-_-_-_, rather than the old (and arguably better) Ferret ||| Tech. The problem lay in the URL Arguments in the link. It won't accept anything except English letters and spaces.

Turns out the same problem happens if you have a blog title partially in Chinese, or Icelandic. Wonderful! Totally needed to know that. I was going to put my title in Icelandic characters. Won't do that ...

Anyway, you can now click Follow this Blog and show your unbridled love and affection for Yours truly, the BlogMaster of the Universe.

Okay, the love and affection is optional, especially if you're a male...

Bear with me here...

Hello faithful,
I just thought i would indulge in some self-promotion and put in some links for my other 2 blogs:
Firstly, there's a Ferret's View on the US of A, my commentary on the upcoming US Presidential Election (yay, only 91 days of George Bush left)
Then there's ferretloads of crazy my general blog on cynicism and rants.

There we go, self-promotion session ended

New Macbook Displays...

Has anyone seen the new Macbook Range? Not only are the laptops themselves incredibly good-looking and look pretty fast, at least on paper. But of slightly more interest are the new accessories, in particular, the new LED Cinema Displays. LED?? I don't know, it could be LCD's but i somehow think Apple would have run it through for spelling errors, and it appears multiple times over the page. Everyone is very confused, but i honestly couldn't care less about the acronyms, it's a semi-HD display made for a MacBook, and for god's sake it's 24 Inches! Hello, how can you not love a screen that's f***ing huge and still looks awesome. Apple has cemented their reputation for sweet hardware...

Better than that useless HP crap. There is only one thing that;s useful for, and that's flushing down the toilet...

Google can't be that old...

Can you believe Google has made it to ten years old already. Google seems like something that has been simultaneously around forever, as well as a real newcomer.

Google has made a pretty big point of their milestone, with their Project 10 thingymabob (its a word now). Some of it is quite interesting in particular their April Fool's Day jokes from their long and illustrious history. PigeonRank has got to be one of their best...

They have also released a copy of their 2001 Search Databases. I haven't had a chance to fiddle yet, but further reading reveals some interesting things:

"September 11" yields a bunch of random dates and places.
"Paris Hilton" goes to the actual Hilton Hotel in Paris
"Kevin Rudd" you've got to go to result #5 to get to our idiotic PM

Any Search engine that relegates Krudd to fifth spot has got to be good...

But on a more serious note, has anyone noticed that not only is google eerily good but it has entered society to such an extent that it is both a common noun and a verb.

If there's one thing Google can be happy about it's that has anybody actually heard someone say "Just go Live Search it".

Anyone?
I Didn't Think So...

Smartphones Nirvana

To continue on my theme of commercial overkill, i've decided to have a rant on the subject of phones. The burgeoning new segment of smartphones such as the iPhone, the htc, and some of the new Samsungs have taken off and climbed to saturation point.

Trawling through the web, you can see almost million of choices on phones such as these. Think about it, the iPhone is today's techno hero, but the other manufacturers aren't far behind.
Fringe brand 'HTC' have already worked from the original entry-level Touch model to the touch Pro, to the Touch Diamond, and now the Touch HD (being hailed as one of the greatest phones around).
Then LG has released about 4 new phones (at least one of which looks uncannily like the bastard lovechild of the LG Shine and the Apple iPhone)
Then Samsung has begun giving teasers about their new range of good phones.

If you ask me for my (semi-) professional opinion, i tend to lean toward the HTC models. They look attractive, they've got decent stats in performance, and the interface is surprisingly weildy.

One of the things that will really change people's minds when they go to spend their hard-earned will be the interface...
the HTC TouchFLO interface is my personal favourite, Samsung's also seem pretty intuitive, but I found the LG system to be the phone equivalent of IE4 -- Slow, Clunky, Ugly and outdated.

This may all seem pretty confusing and worrying but don't be fooled. This is great news for buyers. All the while there is plenty of choice, there is also plenty of devlopment and plenty of competition which all adds up to... Smartphone Nirvana

The Wide and very confusing world of browsers

Now i was reminded by a couple of friends this week about the ongoing browser war, and this got me thinking. (Hey, I do Geography, i got plenty of time to think)

Has anyone actually tried to count all the browsers available or god forbid, tried to download them all...
Think about it... There's the obvious ones : Firefox, IE7, and Safari.
But then there is your slightly more fringe browsers: Chrome, Seamonkey, Flock, Opera, Konqueror etc etc.
The list never actually seems to end, its like a new day, a new browser. Wouldn't it be easier, if we all just made one or two awesome browsers (did anyone say Chrome and Firefox) and just used them?

Okay so maybe i'm getting off into my own little Utopian world again, but it would make things easier.

Welcome all!

Welcome to my new blog!

I'm fairly new to doing this myself (i prefer to just be a parasite and read everyone else's), so i'm probably going to be fairly unpredictable, with both regular posts and post content.
Now don't say i didn't warn you!