Okay, so everyone has been there. You are asked a simple question and then spout the most amazing crap as an answer. People in this country do it when drunk most Saturday nights. This poor girl did it at the Miss Teen USA pagent on live TV - OUCH!
….has gone all sitcom and dropped the geekiness ::SOB:: It’s funny but not the geeky laugh genius from last series
But I’m very amused by the introduction of Microsoft’s MOS
Named for Moss?
Good news..Richard Briers, James Marsters and Alan Dale
Bad News….Martha….but maybe she’ll create an interesting dynamic and the other duller characters will take a back seat?
Check the press release here
I was lucky enough yesterday to play with an iphone (thanks to the lovely Vero) and although I had been skeptical about them (well it’s a phone and I’ve been disappointed for so long with just about every phone in the last 5 years)…..however it’s bloody brilliant!!
It’s so easy to use and the functionality is just amazing, the screen quality is really clear and large enough to read the web with ease. The camera which I’d had doubts about isn’t up to the quality of the N73 or N95’s but it’s about 5 times faster at taking pictures and although the quality of the lens isn’t all there, I could live with it. Here’s a shot of iphoto on it:
If you are reading a web page in portrait and want to read it in landscape, all you do is turn it round an automatically it follows your hand and changes. However the perfect app for it is Google Maps, it just works so well and it’s easy to zoom in and out just by opening and closing your fingers on it.
Hopefully this will give Nokia and the others the kick in the ass they need to start producing decent web phones, rather than the crap they have been producing for 10 year olds.
All in all I’ll be buying one, I’ll happily break my contract for it - just brilliant!
Ok, I know I’m getting too excited about this. But I *loved* the Bionic Woman as a kid, I even had an outfit! So I’m hoping this is as good as the trailer looks. Michelle Ryan is excellent and the production team is headed up by the wonderful Glen Morgan of the X-Files and Final Destination films so it could be good.
I’m a complete Post Secret junkie, and I love seeing what’s new on a Sunday night. The whole project is obviously a labour of love and this video sums up what the site is about.
If you want to learn more there is a link to the site over on my blogs section
I’ve just been rejoicing over the fact that the *horrible* Barbie and pooing Tanner the dog are to be recalled by Mattel
Now we made the gigantic mistake of buying this for baby geek at Christmas, as I thought it was cute Barbie had a pet. I didn’t realise the bloody thing ate magnets and then pooed them out so you could collect them with you’re poo-per scooper! Oh the fun we had Christmas Day with that..what a shame it was *lost* 2 days later, the magnet poo was the first thing in the bin 
But as always with these things, there is this *HUGE* announcement from Mattel and then where the hell do we send these things to get refunded? I would have loved to have done that on Boxing Day.
I haven’t posted for ages sorry! Work has been manic which means when I’ve been getting home, I’ve generally been collapsing in a big heap and just wanting to play with my computer.
Facebook has been my new shiny of choice, it’s been really nice catching up with some of my friends who I’ve not talked to in an age. We’re all in our 30’s with careers, husband and children who suck 90% of our time. Facebook has been a godsend in that I can send someone a poke to let them know I’ve been thinking of them, or drop a message on a wall seeing if they can have lunch the following week - LOVE Facebook!!
But my main reason for this post is to shout out my love for my new Mac. Dearest hubby bought me one as my old windows laptop was 5 years old and the screen only worked if you punched a part of the keyboard - LOL!
Now you have to understand I have spent the last 10 years supporting Microsoft desktops and servers in one version or another of Microsoft - there are few things I’ve not seen one do to self- destruct over the years. However for all the faults, I’m very fond of Microsoft. It’s like an old car that you know all it’s faults and you know how to keep running.
So I’ve never really felt the need to have a Mac. Hubby had one from his last job and whenever I used it to try and surf the web quickly or just print something out it frustrated the hell out of me. I’d shout at it and then not use it again for another 6 months.
So imagine how shocked I was when he started his new job, got a new Mac and created me my own account that he hadn’t screwed about with….I started falling in love with Macs…I felt dirty and ashamed I was cheating on my knackered old laptop 
Then last week my lovely man bought me my very own MacBook and I’ve not turned it off since So here are the pros and cons so far I’ve found.
Pro’s
The MacBook is faster than my work Dell laptop which is comproble
She’s prettier
PhotoBooth is just a genius app
Bluetooth is great and simpler than on PC’s
Everything so far has been fairly easy to grasp.
I really love it!
Cons
Networking more than one PC is a fucking nightmare! Maybe it’s because I know MS off by heart but I can’t for the life of me get this connected to my old PC to pull everything off.
Finder is a bit pants - know by heart I can’t use anymore..bugging me a bit but that will change.
So all in all I’m a happy girl and I even want a new iMac now as a home media server - woo hoo!
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