Cup Of Coffee

Here’s another one of those mixes that deserves to be bigger than the original. This Lazy Jay remix of Conor Maynard is fantastic. It’s called “Can’t Say No”

Today I’ve got a couple more tunes which have been playing around our house. The first is B.Traits, Fever. It features Elisabeth Troy and is a fantastic throwback tune :)

Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand the reasoning behind Embarrassing Bodies as a TV show. It’s telling people to get checked out. Go to the Doctor and get those niggling issues sorted out instead of hiding them away. It’s basically better to be safe than sorry.

My wife loves the show and we usually end up watching it. The whole “Embarrassing” part is confusing because there’s a seemingly endless stream of people going onto the show, quite willing to show various bits of their body in front of millions of viewers. This is confusing because, for reasons best known to themselves, they weren’t prepared to do this with their local Doctors and instead waited for Channel 4 to roll up in a big truck.

The show usually goes like this…

Weird-looking Doctor – “So, what’s the problem”

Guy – “Well Doctor, I’ve got absolutely massive piles that I’ve done nothing about for years”

Weird-looking Doctor – “Ohh… OK, bend over and we’ll get Camera 2 to do a massive close-up on your sweaty hole”

Me – “Bleughhh… I didn’t go HD for THIS !!!! I THOUGHT YOU WERE EMBARRASSED ABOUT IT!!!! AGGHHH!!!”

Even worse, there’s now a “Live Clinic” version with people hooking into the show live via WEBCAM. There they are, getting their privates out in front of their webcams… probably not the first time. I’m sure I heard the guy last night say, “Yeah, look at it.. look at my penis…”

Strange. And stranger still, one of the Doctors presenting it said, “OK ladies, sign onto our website at channel4.com and send us pictures of your breasts”.

WHA!? Can’t you get arrested for this ?

Link – Embarrrassing Bodies

If you’ve got loads of power at your disposal and all those horses feed the rear wheels, don’t plant them down on a corner….

A few of the kids TV channels close down after about 9PM. Strangely, many keep on going, broadcasting on some mad continual loop. I’d love to know just how many people watch “Dora The Explorer” at 2.35 AM….

We have a various neighbours (obviously) but I have to tell you about the people who live a few doors down. They work hard, both of them, and don’t have any children. Both of them are out the house for 6AM and work 6 days a week.

But that’s not what I love about them. I love the fact that they get pretty hammered every Sunday and stumble back about 8PM. Last night I was out when their taxi pulled up and they almost fell out of it. “Aaaallloo mate….”, said the guy, as he helped his wife out the car. She was holding. On to the door for dear life and managed to whistle (not sure why) and then started singing, “Old McDonald had a farm…”

So, neighbours. I salute you. :)

Doing what I do, I get a lot of email from China. Most of it offers random knock-off handsets for some .. err.. money.

Imagine if those emails were offering knives. Imagine if those emails contained video advertisements. Now imagine if the person voicing the video had a bad-shit crazy accent.

Result ? This…

So, Google have got a licence from the state of Nevada for their driverless car. Here in the UK I doubt it would cope with the round-abouts and increased traffic, so I’ve been thinking.

How about a slimmed-down version here in Britain? Remove the overly stupid things on the roof and restrict these to just the hard-shoulder of Britains motorways and BOOM, you’ve got a moving bed.

Imagine, you drive yourself to the motorway, flick a switch and an alarm wakes you up when you reach the right junction.

Oh yes, I’m full of ideas today.

I’ve got an even cheaper solution involving a lasso and a Polish truck.

Link – BBC News

I work with virtualisation daily. Apart from the constant battle with the letter “z” (virtualise / virtualize / virtualisation / virtualization) and the incorrect spelling of “data centre” as “datacenter” there’s another thing that bugs me.

“The cloud”

What a crap name. In reality, the ideal solution for many is a protected, resilient, private virtual data centre. But hey, let’s just call it a “cloud”.

Clouds are fluffy white things in the sky. They float about and are damp. If they get too close to the ground everyone calls it “fog” and has trouble getting from A to B. These are not secure and solid places to store your data.

Given the choice, where would you stick your USB data stick? In a safe environment known as “the locker” or a safe environment known as “the cloud”.

Sorry.. perhaps it’s just me, but it bugs me :)

If you’re getting a little miffed with the high cost of Sky TV then there’s an alternative which is growing in popularity. For for 15 quid you can get a Dreambox satellite receiver, install some sharing software on it and then get it talking to other boxes which do have valid Sky cards. It’s all explained on sites like this but it’s becoming incredibly popular now. You can literally install the dish and the box yourself and get a lot of the Sky channels for not a great deal of money.

Link – www.cardsharing.co.uk