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Wii Night! : One-handed, energy-charged bites for a marathon session - CHOW [www_chow_com]

We've all been there: The Queen pops around. You're chatting away and she see the Wii sitting by the TV. HRH mentions she's never had ago and you immediately pop in Wii Sports and key up a bowling match. Next thing you know it's 3 hours later and Ma'am is dealing you a Right Royal Whooping on Tiger Woods PGA.

The game is paused and everyone including the bodyguards looks at you expectantly. You rush to the fridge only to find a tin of condensed milk and other assorted ingredients, but no ready food.

She may not have the power to cut your head off (officially) but it's not a good idea to leave a Regent hungry with the news years honours coming up. What do you do?

Chow.com are concerned about your future knighthood, but more importantly, that your Wii nights stayed energy fueled. So they've come up with a Wii One-handed Food article that I advise you to checkout immediately.

And good luck, "My lord"!

An Anyone Can Edit Google Spreadsheet

And you thought networked Doom was cool? How about editing a document live with, like, the whole of the interweb?!!!

Sooo cool!

Google Operating System blog has noticed a feature in the sharing options of Google Spreadsheets that allows anyone to edit - WITHOUT LOGGING ON! (Capitals theirs) and as such has set up an experimental comparing of Office Suites spreadsheet.

The result is - I've found - incredibly fun! Seeing the cells light up next to the one you're editing is so exciting. Check out the 'Jedi mind control' column and comment on whether is supports RSS feeds.

Brings a new level of playability to what is - let's face it - a boring, yet necessary, tool.

I know, I know... small things please small minds. But let me have my moment will you?

Thanks to Techmeme for the pointer

Google doesn't like itself

I set up a Google Mail account for a job recently and forwarded everything from the company email server to the GMail account.

Had some interesting issues with having two GMail accounts on the same machine running that I'll go into later. But the one thing that amused me today was that I noticed that I had an item in my Spam folder.

Now Spam is a fact of life for me along with the majority of my hair migrating from my head to the rest of my body. But, this GMail account was used for internal mail for an email address that has only existed for a matter of weeks. Where is it going to get spammed from?

Intrigued, I opened the Spam folder and found an email alert for an appointment I had set in Google Calendar.

!!!

So my GMail account had concluded that an email from it's sister app was Spam. Is this sibling rivalry? What's wid' dat?

Not seen that before.. anyone else?

iMac noisey fan adventure

My month old iMac is the apple of my eye (Did you get it? 'apple'... do you see? 'cos of the Apple the maker of the iMac... yeah, right...?)

Anyway, this afternon is the first time is ages I've had to spend some quality time with it. But what should happen? I turn it on and fan is really loud. What? But, it's a month old. I never even heard the thing make a noise before and now this!

Well after a little research I found this link:
Macworld: New iMac loud fan noise ...

So cool!

1. Turn the iMac off.
2. Pull the power cable out for 15 seconds (I played it safe and did 20)
3. Pug back in and start up.
4. No noise!

Fandabbidozy!

Sweet!

凉快!

Just call me 'Mac New boy'.

MediaCampBucks08 - May 17

I'll be at MediaCampBucks08 on May 17th.

Be you too?

Fry's Gutenberg journey

This is just a fantastic program on BBC where Stephen Fry tracks the history of Gutenberg (inventor of the printing press) whilst building what they consider to be the closest replication of the original press.

 

This is an amazing show that throws great light on an often little thought of technical revolution. Fry's passion and enjoyment is infectious.

Only five more days on BBC iPlayer as of this post. Do watch it if you're able.

BBC iplayer link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b009wynj.shtml

Loic @ Davos

The World Economic Forum wouldn't perhaps usually capture most peoples attention. But this year a lot more people seem to be taking an interest. Presumably because of the much reported economic downturn.

Notably for me Loic Le Meur is there vidblogging his way through the conference. I've enjoyed watching Loic's video memoirs as he started Seesmic (to which I now have an invite and thus an account!). I'll be watching his daily reports with interest. Here's his latest: