In the terms and condition on the website interneteyes.co.uk it states:
Linking to our site: You may not link any other site to our website.
OMG what have I done.
D’ya think they’ve told Google.
Surprise, surprise when you stick salty water (your hand) in the way of your mobile phone signal then the signal gets attenuated.
So it’s not just the iPhone 4 that suffers from the death grip it is also the Droid, the HTC, Nokia in fact any mobile phone suffers unless the signal is so strong the attenuation becomes insignificant.
Haven’t we known this for years, or has the whole world fallen over and banged it’s head.
More info: http://www.apple.com/antenna/
Samsung Death Grip:
HTC Evo Death Grip:
* Nexus One Death Grip:
Droid Death Grip:
I wonder what life would be like if other professions lied as blatantly as politicians.
Just imagine!
Pilot to ATC: “This is BA544 inbound to Heathrow at flight level 320″
Co-pilot to Pilot: “But were at flight level 120!”
Pilot to Co-pilot: “Keep telling them 320, no wait, tell them 280 – but make it sound convincing”
And imagine getting home from the vets with your assuredly healthy cat, only to find it as stiff as a board in the carrying box.
So if there is anyone out there who has day to day contact with any of our politicians feel free to just randomly lie to them.
If Tony Blair pops into your newsagent for a paper and a packet of fags tell him you haven’t got any papers (despite the mountain on the counter) and the fags are 14.50 euros each. When two Jags Prescott pops his motor in for a service tell him your a party hat manufacturer and you don’t remember ever selling him anything.
See how they like it.
Currently listening to: The Distance by Travis
A US carrier battle group of five ships centered on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, and a Marine assault group of seven ships centered on the helicopter carrier Bonhomme Richard are heading for the Indian Ocean disaster area.
With a total of 37 helicopters between them and each ship capable of producing 90,000 gallons of fresh water each day their potential contribution to the relief effort will be invaluable.
I was surprised to discover that Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world with a population of 239 million four times greater than the population of the UK, and the world’s fourth most populous country after China, India and the USA.
Currently Listening to: Be True by Bruce Springsteen
Here are a few links to Charities where you can make a donation, as it seems our governments pathetic efforts aren’t going to stretch very far.
The Disasters Emergency Committee - is an umbrella group of UK aid organisations – including ActionAid, British Red Cross, Oxfam – working to provide clean water, food and shelter to thousands. To call from the UK dial 0870 60 60 900.
(I’ve just tried to donate using this site and the web interface is poor so it isn’t clear if my transaction went through – I haven’t had a confirmation email either.)
The United Nations World Food Programme – is seeking donations to feed victims of the earthquake.
Medecins Sans Frontieres – is sending aid workers to the region, focusing on medical care for survivors and displaced people after the rescue operations.
Islamic Relief - has also launched an appeal to provide medical supplies, tents and sanitation facilities for those affected.
The United Nations Children’s Fund, Unicef – is working to meet the “urgent needs of hundreds of thousands of people” affected by the tsunami disaster.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR – which has been helping victims of conflicts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, is delivering relief supplies to tsunami survivors in both countries.
Save the Children – has already flown a plane out to Sri Lanka carrying plastic sheeting for temporary shelter, tents to run children’s services from, and essentials such as clothing and cooking utensils.
Anti-poverty organisation Care International – has already provided food for thousands of affected people in Sri Lanka.
Apparently the UK Homeland Security Budget will be £2.1 billion in 2006 (this is the money the government uses to scare us into believing in their leadership), and the commitment so far in Tsunami aid is £15 million – before you reach for a calculator that’s 0.7%.
Tony, you should be embarrassed.
Christmas lasted just 22 minutes, which was much shorter than I had expected after all of the build up.
A film I watched on Christmas afternoon lasted much longer – well over two hours and it felt like four because it was so dull and slow. Some time should have been spent in the editing suite shortening it – dramatically.
How do you measure how long Christmas had taken?
A Sky+ box is the answer. I had paused my Christmas morning viewing – can’t remember whether it was Soccer AM, or a program about the building of the Hoover Dam – to open my pressies. When I returned to my program I noticed it had been paused 22 minutes. So that was it – I’m led to believe even sex can lost longer than Christmas.
Incidentally one of my pressies is a book entitled “How to Spot a Complete Bastard by his Star Sign” – do you think someone is trying to tell me something.
The dull film was Paris, Texas, – friends had recommended it very enthusiastically one drunken evening, so trusting their judgment I gave it a try. I’ve recommended films myself I raved about High Fidelity to a friend who popped off to the local cinema to watch it and didn’t enjoy it at all, I’m not sure she even got to the end without falling asleep.
By the way the book was a gift from my parents!
Currently listening to: Barely Legal by The Strokes
Had to visit London on Friday to go out and get drunk with some clients – what a hardship!
Whilst there I decided to visit the new Apple store on Regents Street and worship at the altar of quality computing.
I’ve been an enthusiastic Macintosh user since my first Mac back in 1984. It ran at 8Mhz, had 128k of memory and a 400k floppy drive. Constant nagging of my boss eventually got it upgraded to a massive 1mb of RAM and dual 800k floppy drive. If memory serves me correctly I think this upgrade was £1,000!
I used it to run the production load for a continuous stationery company. All done in a linked Excel spreadsheets – Excel existed on the Mac a couple of years before it arrived on Windows, so to did Word and many, many graphics packages.
Back to the Apple store – very impressive, lots of space, lots of staff, lots of polished wood and LOTS of glass including a fantastic glass staircase – which is a bit unnerving when you first step on.
I’m kind of in the market for a new laptop, and was quite tempted as a result of being able to touch and feel, but the rumour mill suggests revisions to the PowerBook are due with a faster chip (as always) and larger cache and maybe even dual cores. So I think I’ll wait for a while…
A conversation in the pub last night started with a button falling of Milt’s coat and ended up with the memory of my Mom shouting at me for using all of here wool up.
You see we got talking about the practice as kids of button and string spinning. By threading some string through two opposing holes in a button, tieing the ends together to form a loop, “winding” the button up to then spin it very quickly by pulling the loop taught.
The momentum of the spinning button would then wind itself up in the opposite direction and away you went again. Some buttons made an interesting noise – easily amused in those days.
So, not having any string I used some of my mom’s knitting wool. However the process quickly made the wool break and another 2 foot length was purloined. The trouble was this wool had been ordered specially for some knitting project and there now wasn’t enough left.
So I got a bollocking…
Currently listening to: Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks. I’m not depressed – honest!
I had email this morning apparently from “the-girl-next-door”.
She is seeking boys, who is sweet, with a ador for a gal.
I can see a problem here as the the-girl-next-door is a retired police segeant.
Anyhow I’ll fire off an reply email, but I’ll pretend to be the guy from the house two doors up the street.
Currently listening to: Window Shopping for Blinds by The Beautiful South
