Some mind-blowing photography of rural china…
Monthly Archive for March, 2006
This is pretty ridiculous…the phone is dead after two weeks of usage. It would seem to be a software problem (surprise, surprise) as the phone simply refuses to boot.
It crashed quite spectacularly last night while using internet explorer (yea…who’d have thunk it), to the extent that it required the battery to be removed to power down. As obviously the power button doesn’t work when it is crashed (gah!).
Then when you turn it on, it brings up the o2 screen (normally takes about 30 seconds or so to boot) then the backlight goes off…the o2 screen is still visible, so I am assuming it is crashing sometime during the boot process.
Just on a sidenote, I noticed the lens has already been knackered ipod nano style…guess they made it out of the softest plastic known to man. oh well, guess the camera lens cant get much worse. By the way, it is not like I play catch or knife games with the phone…it goes from my pocket to the pc to charge and back to my pocket, thats it…
Anyway, I am performing a factory reset which I found on this page, hopefully it will be fixed…will update.
UPDATE - 2 minutes later The factory reset worked nicely, I now have to reconfigure windows mobile, install the applications necessary to make it useable, add all my contacts again (thank god I had only added three since the last sync), morn the loss of the first images the phone took and first documents I tried writing with it.
Apparently they would look like this. The rumour goes that this is a little video made by the makers of the Simpsons. It is pretty impressive in quality as well as the attention to detail. Could this be a precursor to a live-action Simpsons movie…I really hope not!
Ok, This is a pretty n00b thing…but sooo many people (not techs) ask me ‘how do i play videos off the internet?’. Well, I have been watching TV (pretty much exclusivly) on the pc for about 5 yrs now…and I can say that all you need is two programs.
Media Player Classic to open the files in, and ffdshow to decypher the contents.
Thats pretty much it…you obviously need the files too, but they arent too tough to find 
Some fantastic images of petri dishes with fractal-like goo, growing in them. Would love to see an exhibition of this work, they would be (even more) fascinating if they were the size of a wall!
I did really enjoy the original punch out for NES, imagine my joy when I heard it had been remade in flash form with a bunch of american celebrities as the opponents. Well, ok, I wasn’t that excited…but it’s good for 20-seconds or so
So, apparently Bill Gates drives (has registered) a 1999 Porsche 911 Convertible as well as a 1988 Porsche 959 Coupe. This man has good taste in cars…! Steve Ballmer on the other hand drives a 1998 Lincoln Continental…
A site that lets you specify cup size and see them jiggling with various forms of activity…kinda like watching a lava lamp.
Oh yea, it is supposed to be for promoting sports bra’s…as well as getting a massive amount of online publicity, see if you can spot this site in next months FHM, it has probably already done metro, no doubt the sun/express in a month or so…viral advertising at its best.