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Engadget have managed to get their hands on pictures of the upcoming T-Mobile HTC Dream, the first phone to be powered by Google’s new Android mobile-OS.

It is my birthday next month and want a Furby Gurdy, it is available on eBay.

Tags: weird

I saw this on Boing Boing, David Van Tieghem’s excellent street percussion video Ear To The Ground filmed in New York.

Tags: percussion, music

On my visit to Oxford this weekend prior to my week long bootcamp at a nearby training company, I went to The Gloucester pub. Unfortunately it was no longer there, which is a shame as I remember having loads of good nights there when I lived in Oxford.

In fact I noticed dozens of Oxford pubs now closed and even the venerable Zodiac in Cowley Road has become the ‘Carling Oxford’ - sad sad times we live in. I suppose the Gloucester will become just another trendy pub alongside The Duck next door.

Before virtualisation a bad patch would affect a single server, but now thanks to virtualisation and bad coding, you can easily take down a large part of your infrastructure.

Sloppy programmers managed to leave beta code in VMware ESX 2.5 Update 2 and ESXi Server 3.5 Update 2 release on 12 August , resulting in the VMware licence manager thinking the software was beta and had expired. This then resulted in VMware refusing to start any of the virtual machines on the patched server.

Wait, aren’t VMware a part of EMC, the World’s premier storage vendor? Doesn’t EMC also own RSA, a leading security vendor - triple ouch. Sloppy coding practices after the EMC acquisition on such a mission critical product is inexcusable.

Over the past year VMware have been using EMC’s marketing dollars to make a massive push to convince organisations to move their critical applications to virtualised servers, this has got to hurt.

The popular Fedora linux distribution closely related to Red Hat is to include a security tool called secTool that will audit the security posture of the operating system once installed according to an article on ann an article on InternetNews.`

At one time Fedora was the most popular Linux distribution available, but both Ubuntu and SuSE have become more popular in recent times.

I’ve spent the best part of a month convincing organisations they need to put in better policies to protect themselves from leaking their customer’s personal data and then I read this Register article on how the British government have managed to loose 29 million records this year. Not bad in a country with just over 60 million inhabitants - almost one data loss per UK citizens.

4 million of these leaks have occurred since the Government’s review after the loss of 25 million records from Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customers from unencrypted CD-ROMs that went missing. Good to know that they’ve tightened up policies and procedures then - eh?

The Information Commissioner who is responsible for the protection of data within the United Kingdom has been too busy suing Marks & Spencer for the loss of a mere 26,000 employee records to look into how the government has managed to loose details of half of the UK’s citizens.

I’ve been suffering from the man flu for a couple of days now and our CTO sent me this video:

Medis Technologies have just announced the first commercially available fuel cells for consumer electronics.

Their 24-7 Power Pack provides up to 30 hours talktime on an iPhone (I should image with 3G turned off!) and up to 80 hours playtime for an iPod.

Some great pictures on this website (part English, part Chinese) of Windows getting a Blue Screen Of Death during the Olympics opening ceremony.   The website also points out that Bill Gates was there to see his doppelganger explode.

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, olympics