Just to make telling time more fun here are some really unusual clocks!

http://www.toxel.com/tech/2008/09/29/collection-of-unusual-clock-designs/

Now here is a really solar powered cool night-light!

ECO NIGHTLIGHT: Moon Jar Solar Powered Lamp

Cut 'n pasted from an e-mail I got! ;-)
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	Now online: the latest Mixed Tape releases
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Check 'em out!

And just to make housing more interesting someone has come up with layered fabrication on a grand scale called Contour crafting.

Contour Crafting technology has great potential for automating the construction of whole structures as well as sub-components. Using this process, a single house or a colony of houses, each with possibly a different design, may be automatically constructed in a single run, embedded in each house all the conduits for electrical, plumbing and air-conditioning.

Now this is really cool! Solar powered night lights that look like trees!

I'm not one to get excited about solar powered thingies, but....this one really appeals to me!
This really Photosyntheseeding!

After getting all of the service packs and patches to my fresh install of Windows XP, I decided to try out the new Google Chrome browser. So far so good, definitely a replacement for IE 7.9, but will it be as good as Firefox?

Google Chrome

Well...after a lot of messing around I finally found the solution to installing Windows XP on a laptop without a CDROM drive! I found this post on EZB Systems which, after trying a lot of others worked the first time around! The only annoyance was to have to re-validate my copy of XP, which fortuneately only required a 10 minute phone call to Microsoft.

most specially if you're trying to smuggle one into prison!

7 Prisoners In Hospital After Hiding Mobile Phones in Their Bodies

here's a link to a very, very useful article about everyone's favorite search engine

101-google-tips-tricks-and-hacks

Its been a little while since I posted anything here!

At the moment just updating some documentation which should really be updated on a more regular basis.