joshwaller (baboba)

"Great Coke Taste Zero Sugar" - You can't make this stuff up, it's Coca Cola's new zero fat / zero sugar coke for men who think drinking Diet Coke makes them a girl. Each 330ml can contains 2 calories - which is great if you normally drink water - I mean what is the point in even drinking it if it doesn't offer you any kind of food or nutritional value? It's full of Aspartame and Acesulfame K as alternatives to sugar, which Coca Cola promise won't give you cancer. Anyway, if you're keen on rotting your teeth, giving yourself cancer, and wasting money then Coca Cola Zero certainly tastes quite nice, contains caffiene, and the can looks pretty cool.

...according to my mobile phone digital camera. I've had the Samsung E800 for over a year now, and it's finally time to send it off to the ebay pie in the sky . The Samsung E800 was a pretty great phone apart from the stupid-ness of it, such as have no means of sending a phone number to another phone (The feature was completely missing), and have no means of sending your photos to other phones or computers without and optional and expensive data cable (it doesn't let you send photos via bluetooth for example, the only way was to pay stupid amounts to send it as an email). Well I've finally got a working data cable - an old-style COM port cable. So basically I thought I'd share with you some of the cake photos (and other photos) from the phone, taken over the last year... the first one, an awesome cream banoffee pie from coffee n nosh. the second is fairly self-explanatory - featured in a mobile phone shop - the chaps from the fast show possibly the oldest novell se...

So I've installed Windows Vista Beta * (Peter) 2 - Build 5384 - The system has a C3 / Nehemiah CPU at 1.2ghz, 512mb ram (DDR, Laptop RAM), 120gb Maxtor Drive and Pioneer 16x DVDRW. Updating the VGA driver seems to have found the correct VIA graphics driver from Microsoft. * Please bear in mind that all that I post is related to the beta version, so Vista could be drastically different (better?) when finalised. It's almost like running some alien or Linux operating system because it looks so strange compared to Windows, they've lost the Start button, and replaced it with the windows logo in a circle, which will be great (not) for tech. support, instead of saying, "Click the Start button...", they can now say "Click symbol formerly known as the start button", or "Click the round blob with the windows logo in the bottom left corner..." "... no, not that one." "...no bottom left "... ad infinitum. Stupid basically. The Start but...

Boiler Room (2000) DVD. Really good, really entertaining, gripping, slightly disappointing end, but I wont go into details other than to say it would be nice if there was an extra couple of minutes tying loose ends. And how do they manage to copy the C: drive onto 1 floppy disk? When they are running Windows 95? Well worth watching though!

We've been in Portugal for a week! It was all very last minute, but it was amazing! Now we have over 500 photos to sort through to find the best ones to share! I've put some of the best one's that stood out the most in the gallery . These ones were taken with the new Canon Powershot A700. It's always slightly annoying when I go places with H with a camera, as she always tends to take the better photo! :) Update: A second set of photos has been added! Wahey!

We've been travelling a lot recently, last weekend was spent in Cornwall, 2 days there, two days travelling. The weather has been amazing. This Wednesday we travelled down to London, stayed over and then came back Thursday evening. The car has been doing an excellent job. There's some photos in the gallery however, I haven't got round to uploading any cornwall ones yet. Other photo highlights: World's Largest Crisp

I've just won an auction for Street Fighter II (Champion Edition) for the Sega Megadrive! Street Fighter II was awesome! I don't know what Champion Edition is, but I guess they just re-released it a number of times to make more money. I even remember playing Street Fighter 1 numerous times, you'd complete the game and pretty much nothing would happen, so you play the game all the way through again just to see if anything happens, only to find out nothing happens again... BeggarPrince is a new game that's just been released for the Sega MegaDrive - the last new game for the Sega Mega Drive was released in 1998! At £29 I don't think I'll be buying it just yet... maybe when it's old skool... :)

Aeon Flux - Awesome - really good concept - seems like a fresh idea (although the island is fairly similar) - seems lowly rated, and under-hyped. Interesting how a lot of the fight scenes are during the day - most other films seem to be in dark alleyways. The Thirteenth Floor - Ok - interesting twists but quite far fetched sci-fi. Basically it's like the holodeck in Star Trek. It's sort of like the Matrix, but in a more Tron kind of way, seems dated in comparison to the Matrix. Along Came a Spider - In the first 5 minutes there's a stunt that looks completely fake. This put me off the rest of the film. Unfortunate but true. Quite entertaining though as far as thrillers go. Stupid use of computers though, ooh click here and now we see a 50 megapixel image of the kidnappers home, how handy. Seems dated for a film released in 2001.

Involving relocating offices. Moving to an office using Amigas as workstations and an old Apple Mac as a server - the keyboards were covered in rubbery waterproof covers, presumably that's why they lasted so long. One of them had a multi memory card reader that was about the size of a modern computer. The new office was located next to the sea and the glass windows were specially coated so that there were two sunsets. Someone I worked with bought a new digital camera, the lens swivelled round to the left for sneaky shots.

Mission Impossible III, Confetti, Ice Age II, are all films I would like to watch. Mission Impossible III : Saw it Wed night, £3.50 at Fact, with Orange Wednesdays it works out at 1.75 each! It's very action packed, quite hollywood-ish, has some comedy moments thanks to Shaun out of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced. Entertaining edge of the seat stuff without much brain thought. Good. And in other news, you know how people say you shouldn't eat sweets because they make your teeth fall out, well that's literally what's happened to me, on Saturday, a Fox's Glacier took out one quarter of my tooth, then yesturday, a Dime bar took out the filling (that was making up about half of my tooth). Update: I'm booked in for Friday, so it could be death for my tooth or it might be saved? I'll have to wait and see...

Friday Eve? Dunno. Saturday: Limo-ride to ball, champagne, wine, lots of food, no ill feeling. Limo ride home. Sunday chilled out sleeping, then 3pm Extreme Monster Truck Show! This involved: Motorbikes jumping, Quad bikes jumping, Off-road thing jumping, a rollover of a Fiat Punto, people driving through fire, 4x4 on 2 wheels, setting fire to a person, you know like it's a normal and entertaining thing to do(!), a vauxhall crashing into a renault clio and rolling over, and then a big chuff off monster truck driving over cars! Followed by church, and then Madagascar - an entertaining (and funny) film that's slightly short (78 minutes).

Can anyone spot what might be the problem with this computer here? Hint, the PSU needs air to work properly. PS - Some new photos added to the gallery .

They are different. Quite fundamentally different. The Pentium M, Celeron M, "Centrino", Dothan is a completely different chip to the Pentium 4-M - the Pentium M at 1.8ghz is roughly equivalent in speed to a 2.8ghz Pentium 4, but uses about 21 watts, whereas the Pentium 4 uses around 80 watts! The Pentium 4-M uses considerably more watts than a Pentium M, but is significantaly slower than the Pentium M. The Pentium 4-M is based on the crappy Pentium 4, the Pentium M is not! There is regular confusion (especially on ebay!) and people think the Pentium 4-M is the same as the Pentium M, they are not the same. Thankfull, Intel provide a CPU information page: http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/default.asp You simply put in the CPU code ie: SL7EM brings up a Pentium M 2.0ghz CPU etc. If you enter SL6FH, you get details of the Pentium 4-M. They are not compatible, you can not put a Pentium 4-M in a Pentium M motherboard and vice versa, without an adapter, and even then, there ...

I don't know why, but I have another cold, I thought having one last month would mean I'd be alright for another 6 months... This one's around a level 2 cold, I'm hoping it will get better rather than worse. I'm in work, but I'm concerned that I might be infecting other people. I guess that's just the way it is, and presumably if anyone else if infected, then it'll boost their immune systems - so it must be a good thing?

Apparently Double Deckers have changed, in a bad way, not in a good way, here's a pic of what they should be like, quite large for a chocolate bar, 60g, with 36% nougat. Also - have you seen the new Dairy Milk Bars with Creme Egg - they're quite nice - but not as much fun as the real creme eggs. The chocolate's not as thick as the bottom bit in real creme eggs either so that's a bit dissapointing, but if you prefer more chocolate than creme, then they could be for you.

Here's a "Lomoesque" photo - it was taken with the Sony Cybershot DSC-L1 and edited with Photoshop ( here's the original ). The L1 is a great little camera that I can take with me everywhere I go, I especially like the generally high saturation the photos have. Unfortunately photos have lens-flare more often than I'd like. Anyway, on the subject of "Digital Lomo", there are numerous Photoshop Actions * that are supposed to provide a digital equivalent to the Lomo camera, but in my opinion, it's not possible to produce one set action or process that produces the same results as a real Lomo LC-A . Lomo photos tend to be more random, one photo may come out looking like a normal camera has taken it, whereas another will have a large yellow area, and another will show a very small depth of field, another photo will have vignetting, another lots of lens flare. Digital photos all tend to be the wrong aspect ratio to start with (4:3 instead of 3:2), and oft...

I've had this Dell Inspiron 1300 (in the middle) for a week or two now, as a replacement for the dead Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 that Toshiba wanted £520 to repair! The Dell cost me £336 inc vat and delivery, and I also bought another 512mb from the excellent Crucial for £36. The Inspiron has a 1.5ghz Celeron-M (1mb cache version of the Pentium-M), 768mb DDR2 ram, DVDRW/CDRW, 15.4" widescreen TFT, built in wireless, and a long life battery. Flipping bargain if you ask me. I've also managed to sell the dead Toshiba on ebay for £139! Panoramic courtesty of the cute little Kodak Easyshare V570 . The Dell has a nice keyboard that is easy (and enjoyable) to touch-type on. The base and screen plastics feel solid and robust, and the built in wifi works well through-out the house. Added this new page to the site: The Animals of Sefton Park, Liverpool .

Which is worse, dog poo all over your pavements, or pictures of dogs pooing all over your pavements? Seriously, these grose pictures of dogs with poo coming out of their bums (the sticky down bit at the back) are at boths ends of every pavement on our street! Who designed this? Ideally there would be no dog poo on the pavements, but I think putting these paintings all over the pavements is unneccessary.

Failure to Launch - Romantic / Comedy. Pretty good, some stupid (annoying) bits, such as the 3rd guy at the end and the woman in the cafe. Like, what the chuff!?! It's good though, just "watch at home on DVD" good, rather than going out to cinema good, unless you're after a romantic outing to the cinema that is... The Inside Man - Action / Thriller. A solidly good film, entertaining, clever bank robbery, fairly obvious what's going on if you're paying attention. Some stuffs still left in the dark, and there's not much "closure" regarding what happens next after the film ends, ie. they left it so vague that I don't really care what happens next. The camera shots often seemed too close-up, and when they were panning, it seemed overly jerky / choppy making it hard to focus what was on screen. Again I think it's one to watch on DVD, saving yourself money. Unpleasant use of the naughty 'C' word. (as though it's now becoming an ac...