Never heard of Godfrey Bloom before reading this article - Bloom congratulates France for bombing the Rainbow Warrior (he responds in another video saying that the people at the Guardian just don't have a sense of humour).

After looking at his YouTube channel and seeing well reasoned comments such as the following:

"..if you're a spiky haired, ring-through-the-nose, weirdo-beardo greenie, you've killed an awful lot of people, when you think about it. Mull that over."

and on the lack of female MEPs

"And how can she leave her family once a month to come over here to Brussels week in, week out when she has other family responsibilites."

I can only conclude the following.

Tw*t.

Labels: Environmental, Politics

Upcoming tech of 2010. Some of it looks a bit pointless but I do quite like the Ideapad U1, Skiff and dual screen netbook.

Labels: Technology

You've got to hand it to Sarah Palin, this was slick.

Hand. Geddit? I'll get my coat.

I also saw the other day that the inquiry into MPs expenses cost as much as the money they will have to repay. Still, it's the principle of the thing I suppose....

Labels: Politics

I was clearing out my junk email today (most of the junk I get is work related - hundreds of the bloody things every day) when I spotted a couple of emails from Blogger support. That's fairly odd so I took a look at what it was about.

"For that reason, we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users, and we are committed to making the transition as seamless as possible."

Bugger.

Having just paid for another years worth of hosting at my current web host, I'd rather not up sticks and move. I'm also not sure I can host the blog directly with the web host either - not without paying more to upgrade my service at least. I've read a few reviews of UK2.net as well and although I've never had any problems with them, others say the customer support is pretty bad so I'm not feeling much confidence in getting help there.

So what to do? I guess I'm not to worried about losing my blog, I can back it up directly on blogger or just copy all the files on the web host side. I'm also blogging less so a bit of a gap would not be a huge issue. And maybe it is time to change hosting services - I've thought about it but it's always just been far easier clicking the renew button. Maybe it's just a good opportunity to change the whole website around a bit...?

Seems I have 6 weeks or so to decide.

Labels: Personal

PC vs Mac security, expert opinions.

Not a huge surprise really but interesting to see the comments from actaul experts rather than fanboys. Overall consensus seems to be that Macs are less risky (saftey through obscurity) but PCs are more secure.

Labels: Computers

What is up with the Australian government? Not content with trying to block access to anything they don't like on the internet, they now seem to be trying to restrict images of women with small breasts (encourages paedophiles don't you know) and prevent annonymous online comments about elections.

Least the last one looks like it will be dropped.

Any bets on what they try next?

Labels: Internet

Behold the moo song. It's about cows oddly enough. Best line, "And the Moo' were all perfect, and love was all around."

Labels: Amusing, Odd

Oooh, quality reporting from Fox - "Turning the XBox (dramatic pause) into the SexBox!" They might have wanted to do some research before that piece as there may well be a sexbox at some point.

Labels: Internet

I finally found something worthwhile on the BBC HYS pages - a post by an obvious genius! Just take a look at what he can achieve for yourself. Or I'll even quote you some:

"It has been found by those digging water wells in the Third World that the local population responds to free water by a drop in the Birth Rate to Western Levels within three months of the water well being dug.... By scratching a woman’s back pleasurably at the same time as making love the womb lining is shed at orgasm, and this only has to be done once every cycle.... Provided that everyone is given a free supply of water and educated into this novel contraceptive method then we should have no further problems with population expansion."

Labels: Interesting

Google offers rewards for reported Chromium vulnerabilities. $500 for a normal one, $1337 (very droll Google) for a particularly clever one. Make a good part time job for some folks I would imagine.

I've switched to Chromium myself for a bit although I may go back to Iron at some point. I really do like some of the features - installing or enabling/disabling extensions without having to restart is a dream for example - but the overall browser experience itself is still far from perfect. They need to get that sorted before I'll consider switching fully from Firefox.

If only Firefox could get the database bloat which causes long launch times fixed - and I have tried SpeedyFox..

Labels: Internet

Scientist publishes paper on how to ease global warming by blocking out the sun. And the research is bankrolled by Bill Gates.

I'm just reminded of a certain Simpsons episode...

Labels: Environmental, Science