Best analogy ever?
Hey dudettes,
I don’t normally look at sites like lamebook but I saw a link to this on a friend’s facebook profile and couldn’t resist sharing!
Enjoy.
Share. Check. Rapid. Not so much…
Does anyone else think Rapidshare should be called very-slow-unless-your-premium-user-who-forks-over-lots-of-money.com ?
Facebook: The place to name and shame your friends
One of the features that the facebook people have added really bothers me. It is the feature that if you type a name of one of your friends into you status, facebook will put a link to that persons profile in your status, thereby advertising you to the world (or at least all of the friends of this one person).
That bothered me enough, but today I think I have seen the worst case of name-linkin on facebook.
Naming and shaming! That’s right, if it wasn’t bad enough to air your dirty laundry on facebook, you can now provide a direct link to the object of your disapproval. Have a look at this example below and then think about where it will go next…
I think it should give links for every word to fan pages or anything remotley realted. For example ‘Kristian Brimble thinks sporks are cool’ and then this would link you to the spork fan page. Good idea? Didn’t think so.
Steampunk
Firstly, you can tell my exams finished on the 2nd of June can’t you? No posts since the 1st of June. It has been some busy times since then. A lot to write if I was planning on giving another life update post but for today something simple…
Steam. No, not vapourised water. Something much more dangerous in my opinion.
What I am talking about is the game and content deilvery service by Valve. Steam is a very dangerous thing.
The danger lies in how easy it is to use (ironically, usally it’s things being really hard to use that is the dangerous thing). With just a few clicks I can easily spend a lot of money on games that I am not very likely to play. BOOM! £50+ spent on a PopCap games pack and I can just download and play them straight away.
Most would say the fact that you can download the game and then play it straight away is an advancement. It is. The problem is; it is too good! When I go out and buy a game, I may not hand over any actual cash and see it leaving my hand, but at least I have a physical object in my hand afterwards. The more I buy, the more phyical objects I aquire and it will get too a point where there will be enough of these objects in my room that I stop buying things!
Not with steam, you just keep buying and buying and soon you have a page full of games to play, no hard drive space left (you get to order a new one with Amazon Prime then, another devil in disguise for similar reasons) and no cash in the account. Balls.
Guess who has been playing Team Fortress 2 and Portal all day 
Which one kills more?
After once again trying to avoid revision by being on Facebook, I noticed this like posted by one of my friends:
Word Of Warcraft Totally Looks Like Swine Flu
As much as this made me chuckle, it was one of the comments below the picture that said ‘WoW probably kills more people’
I have actually thought about this, and it could well be true. There are have been a number of reported murders and things about people who were aggrieved by something that happened in an MMO.
So the question is: which has claimed more lives, MMO’s in general or swine flu which has been another ‘we’re all going to die!!!’ disease that no one ever catches.
Hmm, the answer to that could be interesting in a sick sort of way…
/endProcrastination
Quite scary isn’t it?
As I have mentioned in my last few posts I have some more time on my hands these days. Yesterday I was browsing Wikipedia, and in the news section I came across this.
I must be honest, I knew this was possible and all those crazy Hollywood films like Eagle Eye make it look like the government is spying on us with insane amounts of technology that the average citizen can’t even comprehend. It may be possible that the government are doing this, I wouldn’t be surprised if I am honest. On the other hand, neither would I be bothered, I can’t say I have a lot to hide…
I just never would have thought that something on such an international scale could exist and not have been found out by now. It just makes me wonder a few things like how do they do it? and am I being monitored right now?
The answers are probably not as interesting as the questions but it does seem like one step closer to something from 1984 or V for Vendetta.
Virgins of the internet
Long time no see guys! Well, it hasn’t been that long, but still, I have missed you.
The reason for this hiatus is simply my lack of internet connection. I have moved into my shared student house in Swansea and I’m enjoying it a lot. Even though we had no internet for just over 2 weeks it has been a good laugh and I can see I have made the right choice in house mates.
Strangely, the lack of internet was a good thing. Male bonding (not bondage) and all that.
The lack of internet is a great segway onto why I am posting.
Basically, we chose Virgin Media as our ISP with the nice fiber optic 20Mb/s connection (which is rumoured to be going up to 50Mb/s soon). We signed up, paid the installation and everything was installed fine. Hunky-dory then? Almost.
With the Virgin internet package we get a free wireless router, a nice Netgear one not unlike the one I have back in Newport. Sounds good eh? It is. Sort of.
See, Virgin have installed their own firmware on the router for some reason (I can’t see the point of this) which is locked in and is un-upgradable.
We had a browse to see if we could unlock it but no dice. Seems odd to me that an Internet Service Provider wants to stop their users from benefiting from security updates that they don’t provide and therefore don’t really have to support but can be of great advantage to more advanced users.
Moral of the story: you get what you pay for.
Facebook is the root of all knowledge
I’m back from sunny Benidorm (no, I didn’t see it as somewhere that I would enjoy either, but it was fun). Not much of a tan because I dont like too much sun but I have been on holiday all the same.
When coming back from holiday you feel strange, you partly feel like you need a holiday to recover from your holiday and you also feel that normal life is very mundane.