nope not the singing kind.. and I’m sure Mark/Rich/Matt someone will pipe up n say something like, oh that’s so last year… but the mobile internet browser.

Installed opera mini onto my Nokia N70 and it is a beauty! I can’t believe how much better it runs, some incredibly good features (like using RSS feeds straight into the browser and the use of the joystick to jump a page at a time to save you scrolling down for hours – one of my pet hates with mobile internet)

bugger it. my phone bills going upwards.. still this will keep me amused while I patiently await my new toy – the Nokia N95 on Three (hats off to them for FINALLY doing a proper data tariff on a mobile internet handset – the 3 X series – think broadband, pay once no per MB bill, has skype, messenger and loads of other cool software pre-installed)

it’s not often I get excited about software (gadgets, yes… ok) but seriously, install this on your phone! It works with most decent phones (ones that have cameras and mobile internet), browse to mini.opera.com and then follow the steps to download and install.

hint: ignore US english, there is a proper UK english

Took me 2mins to install and setup, on both a Nokia N70 and a Rim Blackberry… why was I doing this? I needed to find a way to get hotmail onto a Blackberry at work… seemed a good excuse to use work time “testing” on my mobile first! Woop!

If anyone’s around, I’m playing Toko friday and Revolution in Reading on sat. Ciao.

Happy Christmas Y’all!

I’m not doing christmas cards again this year, I’ll be making a donation to the Samaritans instead and sending this round on email and txt:

Decorations in Bournemouth town are poor and lacking everywhere.. some exceptions (the square) but offices/shops/flats… don’t seem to have any!? Booo!

And with this, I find myself at an odd impasse.

On the one hand, I’m starting to see myself as more of an evangelical atheist, I believe that there is an underlying power behind all things called “nature” and not some unproven deity with 6 arms or whatever, but, I’m disgusted at the fact workplaces are not celebrating Christmas.

Whilst these two things seem at odds, I don’t think they need be. To value ones heritage is not to contradict the view that we need to move on from “whence we came”

To me, believing in the unexplained is one thing, having an open mind is another… but, to advocate a theory with no proof that contradicts established and immensely documented science, to the detriment of furthering scientific knowledge is dangerous!

I used to accept that people believed in things and that was ok, I didn’t, but that was my choice. Increasingly I’m taking the line that these beliefs holds us back from our true potential to evolve, causes divisions in society and, whilst I admire the values inherent in most of these beliefs, I think religion is generally a bad thing for society as a whole.

Primitive man didn’t understand the world around him, he thought volcanoes were gods… all things were a mystery… life was survival

Modern man invented, explored and understood lots of the world, his beliefs evolved away from those things he now understood… a volcano isn’t a god, its a geo-thermal whodyamaflip that we understand…

what comes next?

Well, we need to evolve again, I think we’re on the edge of another evolutionary type stage. DNA is going to be mostly decoded in our life time, we can implant tehcnology into our bodies, all people could be connected to all knowledge via the internet… science is answering some of the big questions about the creation of the universe…

is this Human 3.0 perhaps?

Yeah I like that, I’m not an atheist… that be like saying I’m a non-tooth-fairy believer… it defines what I’m not.

Human 3.0 – I might start a wiki to define it… hmmm… anyway… it’s late and I’m prattling on now on increasingly random tangents. Night world.

PS Apologies for the lack of posts recently, weddings n company formations, DJing n dayjobs… flatmate manouverings n project plannings makes Luke a busy boy.

5 points for this one..

Why does everything have “serving suggestion” on it?

I bought some mince pies, and there is a photo of them on a plate, with a sprig of holly… ah nice n christmassy image… why does it have to have serving suggestion plastered across it?

Surely this can’t be as simple as covering any potential lawsuits??

“My mince pies didn’t come with a sprig of holly… I demand compensation!”
“I’m terribly sorry sir, but it says serving suggestion so tough titties matey!”

Ok, this is just silly… I think someone somewhere is havin a laugh… the jar of beetroot I have in my fridge… says serving suggestion on the label… it’s a jar!!! I can see the fecking product inside! Maybe the mince pies is more understandable.. but this is a jar, you can clearly see the beetroot inside!!!!

stuff pretentious fashion parades… dressing up is the new cool!

Saturday night I played at The Legendary Mr Coole’s Bright Young Things Birthday bash… themed in decadent 20/30′s style… everyone made such an effort and I think most people would agree the night kicked ass!

One of the amusing things for me was how, “Bright young Things” became “Clockwork Orange” just by swapping my flat cap for a bowler.