Dardoz gets stuck in

Yes. It’s not a figment of your imagination. After becoming a little weary of UT2004, I’m going to give it a break until UT3 comes out. One of my friends who has a few WOW accounts has offered me one of them to play, so the game I have slated for so long is finally going to get a few minutes of my time so I can really evaluate if it is as big a waste of energy as I have always thought it is.

At the minute I haven’t even gotten the game yet and my excitement has gotten the best of me. I’m trying to decide which character I will use. Now bare in mind this isn’t the expansion to the game. I will just have the original.

So my avid readers. What is the best character for WOW beginners?

I’m sure a lot of you who have had a pc for more than 5 minutes will remember well the floppy disk. God I even remember when it waas the norm for software installation. Having to load in 5 or 6 floppies in a row to install a program. What a painstaking task that could be.

To this day, a small percentage of PC’s sold throughout the world still come with a floppy drive. Unfortunately to the detriment of floppies everywhere, this day could spell the end of them entirely.

PC superstore, PC World will no longer sell the devices, individually or as part of their prebuilt computers.

Way back in 2003, Dell started the demise when they hammered the first nail in the Floppy coffin by banishing them from their higher spec machines.

I was sitting there listening to the Spin 103.8fm news headlines on the way to work this morning thinking to myself, “God!! I miss Colm Hayes and JimJim” when suddenly….BOOM!! HEADSHOT!!

Just 1 day after I blogged about the potential of the Fon Movimiento product, Dublin City Council have announced they are going to give free Wifi access for the whole of Dublin city. They haven’t as yet decided on a provider, but the project is rumoured to be costing them in the region of €12 to 20 million.

I don’t watch TV very often, but earlier tonight I turned it on, flicked around until I hit Channel 4 and a show called ‘The smallest people in the world’. It was a documentary dealing with Primordial Dwarfism, a condition I had never even heard of until a couple of hours ago.

I don’t actually remember the last time something moved me as much as this program, and more specifically, the young people that the documentary was based on. It features Danny (3′6″ at 17),
Hannah (2′10″ at 10), Brianna (2′3″ at 16) and Bradley (3′2″ at 14). Brianna is actually smaller than her 20 month old cousin.
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Last Thursday, a French appeal court made a an epic ruling which could set a predecent the file-sharing that neither the file-sharing or Anti file-sharing lobbyists could have foreseen. The French Court of Appeal of Montpellier ruled in favour of a 22 year old man who had downloaded almost 500 movies online. He didn’t stop at this. He burned them onto CD’s and shared them with his friends.

The court’s decision was based on the French Law “article L-122-5″ which states:

“Authors can’t forbid copies or reproductions that are only intented for the private use of the copyist.”
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Fon Movimiento have released an exciting new poduct which will allow their members to share their broadband with each other. Eventually, they hope this will mean broadband access no matter where you are. All you have to do is buy their modem for about $29.95 and that’s it.

About time someone did this. If it catches on, wouldn’t driving around all to meetings be so much less boring.
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Speaking from the World Economic Forum, Chad Hurley, CEO of Youtube has revealed that the company plans to financially benefit users who produce and upload their own content. They are certainly not the first to do this, Revver and Brightcove have long offered a revenue-share to content creators, but with their huge user base, they will certainly be the largest and most likely financially viable option for video producers.

It could spell the end for the likes of Revver and Brightcove who were using revenue-sharing as their main marketing ploy to pull users away from Youtube.

Apple was dealt the first of most likely many blows on Wednesday as Norway’s ombudsman ruled that their itunes online music store was illegal.

This stance comes about because songs downloaded from itunes won’t work on rival mp3 players, they will only work with an Apple iPod. It therefore goes against consumer protection laws. This is the case in most European countries and my hunch says this just might be the beginning as other countries will look to follow suit. Sweden and Finland have infact already given their support to Norway but have yet to take legal action.

The Norweigan Ombudsman has set a deadline of October 1, far too long in my opinion, for Apple to comply with regulation and make their songs playable in any device. If it fails to to do, they will eventually face closure by court action.
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If Paris Hilton is your thing, then lucky for you she has this habit of making sex videos and leaving them lying around for people to pick up and broadcast all over the net.

This time, Paris left some belongings behind at a Los Angeles based story facility. Upon leaving the facility, she apparently refused to pay the €208 bill which meant her “private belongings” were sold to an unidentified buyer. Now they are in the hands of Bardia Persa - the brains behind ParisExposed.com.
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A competition to create a robot capable of operating in urban warfare conditions was launched by Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) on Tuesday. The robot who completes an as yet unreleased obstacle course in record time will be declared the winner.

Currently, robots deployed for urban warfare missions are normally operated remotely by a human. DSTA wants scientists to create an A.I. powered robot that “must, on its own, be able to navigate both indoors and outdoors in an urban landscape and accomplish a set of assigned tasks within a stipulated time”.
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