I saw this video over at Guinesspig.net and if there ever was a reason to give money to charity, then this would be it. Is this a con?, well watch the video and make up your own mind. I did a little research online and came across this website.

And if there ever was a reason to wish for Mugabe to be gone forever,  then this would be it as well. He has caused this problem.

Someone has got a good sense of humour. Check out AdultSheepFinder.com (New Zealand’s #1 Internet Dating Site).

Only in New Zealand

Our English Twenty20 team are almost as bad if not worse that our useless football players. They are paid a fortune to embarress us and this latest match that lasted less than 3 hours must be the cherry on the top.

They had the chance of winning twenty million pounds if they won against the Standford Superstars, but they failed miserably and were all out for less than a 100 runs. I don’t quite see the point of this whole massive prize money for one game.

The entire English Twenty20 team should be sacked. None of them deserve to stay on.

The Stanford Superstars celebrate their victory with their Twenty Million Cheque.

What is happening in the financial markets is not great? Hell it’s down right terrible, but why should any government or tax payer bail out these banks and financial institutes when they have been so reckless with other peoples money?

Look around and you will see a lot of people with houses they can’t afford, cars that have been paid for on credit cards, debt up to their eye balls, and yet when times get hard and belts get tighter, and house prices are dropping faster than a lead balloon, why should they not have their houses & cars reposessed because they can’t afford the payments and why should the banks and mortgage companies who dished out those ridiculous loans now beg for a bail out?    That doesn’t seem fair at all.

All this talk of a $700 billion bail out and I see the house of representitives in the US has voted against the bail out plan. Mmm, I see it was Bush and McCains party that voted against the bail out. Surely that is a major backfire for both of them. What does it say about McCain?

Here is an interesting poll on CNN:

So George W. Bush and his useless government are going to bail out the US economy by releasing 700 billion dollars of money that they doesn’t have. A brilliant plan and who is going to pay that money back?

Add that amount to the ten trillion dollars he already owes back to the government and one starts to wonder if the US dollar should be worth anything. I always thought that in order to make or print money the country had to have the equivalent gold bullion stored somewhere like Fort Knox. Unless of course he has robbed Iraq of all their gold bullion.

It seems that Bush has a printing press in every government office and they are just printing away. Who is to say that they owe ten trillion dollars? It could be ten times more than that.

Sky News Headline: US needs $700 billion dollars to avoid disaster. The actual disaster are the fools who think this is a good idea. Rather than bailing out these companies who have been making a mockery of the banking system, the government should be locking them up for being so irresponsible with other peoples money.

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It’s been a while since I wrote anything worthy on here, and looking at my desk got me thinking about the few new bits of hardware that I have been using a lot recently that was money well spent.

Synology Cube Station CS407 4-Bay Sata Gigabit Network

I have had the Synology Cube Station now for about 3 months. I have had a few problems with dodgy hard disks, which to be fair have not been caused by the CS407. This NAS is incredible, quick and has a plethora of extras thrown in for good measures, namely IP Camera Video Recording (I.P. Surveillance if you are into that sort of thing), Photo Station, File Station, Website hosting, iTunes Server, BT (Bit Torrent) download etc, AD support, MAC compatible, SSH, Telnet, FTP etc). It has an awesome interface and it’s very easy to use. Best of all it supports 4 Sata/SataII disks, and large capacity. I currently have 2TB’s in the way of 4×500GB at my disposal. Did I mention it’s silent as well? It’s also future proof as there are regular firmware updates from Synology’s online site. For an excellent review on this beast of a NAS, look at Benchmark Reviews, who review it in all it’s glory.

Magic Bridge II

Through the years I have collected hard drives of all sizes & types (IDE, SATA/SATA2) from the various PC’s I’ve owned, rather than throw them away. You never know what people can find on a hard drive, even when you think you have formatted it. You see it on TV all the time, these crooks use software to get back sensitive information.

So I have mine all in a box, just gathering dust, until last weekend that is, when I discovered this neat little gadget calledMagic Bridge II. It allows one to connect an IDE or SATA/II or eSATA drive or both together (SATA on one end and IDE on the other end) to a USB interface. It is brilliant and fast, since it’s USB2.0 connection (or 1.1 if you have the older type). To start, just slide a disk(s) onto the connector and hit the power button. There is also a backup button, which you can press and it backs up the contents of the disk to your HD. The Magic Bridge comes with all the power connectors, cables etc that one would need. It’s small and light as well. Backing up software to old or spare drives couldn’t be easier. It’s even better than an enclosure, since this supports everything. I paid £33 for it at Maplin.
Note: The only problem I have come across is that it doesn’t recognise drives with multiple partitions. In Computer Management it shows the disk as unknown and “format the partition” is the only option. Formatting the disk into one partition does the trick, but if this was an old disk with stuff on it, then Magic Bridge II is not the solution to reading the disk.

Belkin High Speed USB 2.0 7 Port Hub

Having an iMac has some serious disadvantages, especially if one has lots of USB devices. I have loads (Camera, Phone, Universal Remote, Magic Bridge, Key, speakers, webcam, keyboard, external drive etc), and the iMac is sadly lacking in the USB 2.0 department with only 3 USB ports. So to compliment the lack of USB I bought a Belkin 7 port USB 2.0 hub. It’s got two vertical ports which is great for quick inserts or pullouts, and 5 ports at the back for those devices that are always in use. For £17 from PC World it was money well spent. The hub is weighted as well, and has a cable management clip. Very useful.

Aren’t the Google logos good looking? They are so clever! I bet the guys/gals who design them get paid a fortune to sit around and come up with cool ideas.

Talking Olympics. Did you see the opening ceremony? I read somewhere all the dancers were practising their moves for a year to get it right. Talk about perfectionists. They even had a massive fireworks display a couple of days before to test everything out. That must surely scared the shit out of every animal in the vicinity.

Spare a thought for the millions of displaced chinese people who still don’t have homes after that earthquake a couple of months back. I wonder how they feel seeing all this money being wasted on fireworks and the Olympics Ceremony. I guess the UK will be in the same position in 4 years times.

1. Well Five Hundred Billion Dollars gets the US budget deficit resolved.
2. Ten Hundred Billion Dollars and losses in in the US sub prime are no more.
3. One Hundred Billion Dollars frees the world of Dr Evil.
4. In Zimbabwe it gets you a loaf of bread.
   

   One Hundred Billion Dollar Note (worthless in Zimbabwe).