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Again i have gone off track with something that has caught my eye and my hippocket. The Sony Errison X1 is touted as the phone people are going ga ga for after the iphone. The X1 is Sony Errison’s up coming flagship model of Sony’s new Xperia range. It was first presented in the World Mobile Congress last february and has recently been announced to be realesed in Q2 2008. The new Xperia range will be a line of smartphones catering for the elite buisness world.

The reason why the X1 is recieving so much hype is that is packed full of features and new concepts by Sony. The phone which has been designed in conjuction with HTC is the first device to be powered by Windows Mobile by sony. The X1 like the Iphone is a jam packed smartphone sporting:

3″ 800×480 touchscreen, qwerty keyboard, 3G phone with video talk, push email, 3.2mp Camera with 30fps video, Bluetooth (A2DP), aissted GPS, WIFI, microSD expansion and Windows Mobile 6.1 on top of Sony’s Xperia panel

From the list you can easily tell where it get’s it’s hype from sporting nearly every modern phone functions. The X1 is basicaly a windows mobile smartphone tweaked by Sony. Sony has been flaunting it’s Xperia Panel which is a concept which allows the X1 to have multiple Windows Mobile profiles (e.g. work, play, multimedia). Each profile is set to cater diferent tasks with certain functions more prominent and on the idle screen (e.g. email on work screen). The phone which is based on Windows Mobile 6 will have the usual WM features such as office, Mobile Outlook, Internet explorer and Windows media which will be used for multimedia. The X1 though only has 400mb of space but will this time support MicroSDHC upto 32gb not Sony’s proprietary memory stick. A feature which has not been fully explained my Sony is the incoporation of aGPS in the X1. The X1 will no doubt be able to be used for directions as it will be very handy for the buisness amn on the go.

One of the most dassiling features of the X1 is it’s form factor. The X1 is a slider mcuh like the HTC TyTN II where a full qwerty keyboard slides out from the side. The unique thing about the keyboard Sony’s proud curved slide design out which tilts the screen up a bit when the keyboard is extended. The deign in general of the X1 is very sleek which comes in either a black or silver metal body. The most eyecatching feature of the X1 is the 3inch touchscreen which has an oustanding resouloution of 800×480pixels. This high resoloution enables the user to browse websites without needing to zoom in. The only drawback is the screen’s colour range is only 65k 16bit which is the average windows mobile specification.

That chick in the video is seriously smokin’ hot.

Anyone who has a large music collection, has a lot of music with tags, wrong tags, or a lack of tags tries to fix that. So what do you do? You try to find the right tags for the music on the internet, right?

iTunes makes this a massive pain in the ass. As in, fucking yourself up the ass with a spiked pike painful.

There’s no option to get iTunes to auto-tag your music, well actually I don’t know, but you definitely need an iTunes account to get the album art working (more…)

I’ve found that, on the whole, science doesn’t lie to me. Science is like that irritating relation at the dinner party who tells you shitty ‘interesting facts’ when you really just want to drown your sorrows in brandy-soaked fruitcake. But you can still trust Science, because Science generally knows what the hell it’s talking about. And yeah, sometimes Science might be wrong. But, along the way, science sorts itself out via this little thing I like to call ‘peer review’ and ‘experiment validity’. Mmm. Tasty.

So, to drop the metaphor, I basically get the funny feeling that when a whole lot of people working independently reach the same conclusion it’s more than likely to be reasonably accurate. And if you don’t agree with me, I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re a dirty communist.

Of course, when along the way we start to see some results that might have an impact politically people get all antsy in their pantsy about it (see: evolution). And a big one that’s going on right now is the issue of climate change.

So, basically today I’m going to focus on the people who believe that climate change is either not happening/incredibly unlikely to happen. In fact, all those people who don’t think we should bother doing anything about it. Essentially this post is just going to be one big bitchslap, which I understand you can do across the internet nowadays.

Don’t get me wrong, though – I don’t ever want to stifle (more…)

As the Editor-in-Chief, I’d like to welcome a new writer to the staff of PlasmaShield.

Meet, Barley.

Barley will be our environmental columnist, although she won’t be writing about methods of tree hugging all the time. Her interests include, music, environmentalism, playing beach volleyball with dinosaurs and eating instant noodles/ramen of varying degrees of unhealthyness.

Yes, unhealthyness is a word.

What can we expect from Barley? The most up to date methodology concerning coming into bodily contact with trees, the best ways to eat instant noodles, and computer games.

Everybody Loves Ramen

[Update] A further email response was sent by Mullenweg to me:

My email was private and not meant for publication, thanks.

Also, negative comments are not censored, read the thread for plenty of negative feedback. Yours, however, seemed like it needed a response and it was so far down the thread and I didn’t get to moderating it for a day or two that you probably wouldn’t have seen it, hence my email. But suggesting that there are only positive comments on the wp.com blog is demonstrably false.

As for spam,

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/04/09/why-wordpresscom-is-virtually-spam-free/

Finally, related links always point to the same blog/author first, and to the exclusion of anything else *if there’s enough related content on the same blog*.

Here was my response:

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After the death of the Master in the modern series it seems the writer has confirmed the point the Doctor is the last of the Timelord race. Now the writer have pulled a rabbit out of a hat for tonights episode ‘The Doctor’s Daughter’ will introduce us to Jenny. In real life Jenny played by Georgia Moffett is the real life daughter of Peter Davidson the fifth Doctor. Making Jenny truly the daughter of the Doctor.

In last week’s teaser the Doctor is lured off course to the planet of of Messaline. A planet which is intwined in a planetary civil war, not the most impressionable place to find a long lost relative. Jenny is potrayed in the series as a tough warrior of prominent power. This could come in handy if Jenny would be implemented into the Doctor’s gang. Now composing of himself, Donna and Martha.

The fact that the writers have pulled a timelord out of the hat now questions how many other timelords will pop in for a visit. Tonight’s episode i believe a turning point of the TV show as Jenny if she survives the first episode will be a usefull character. I however doubt she would be come one of the doctor’s companions. These speculation though will be confirmed in tonights episode which from a TV.com survey many people will be expected to tune in.

But not in a good way, WordPress.com has a feature on the dashboard that shows you what terms people used on search engines to get to your blog, most of them were pretty obvious and makes sense. Here’s a few examples.

Then you get stuff that are a little unexpected:

New York Times: New Hacker Economics

Company e-mail, business documents and personal health information are the new targets of choice for illegal hackers, according to Finjan, a San Jose-based maker of Web security software and appliances.

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Craziest… Idea… EVER…

Marvel Comic has just announced that in October this year, they will be releasing “MARVEL APES”. A mini-series in which all your favorite marvel heroes; including so far: Spiderman, Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Woman, Luke Cage and Wolverine; are… wait for it…

MONKEYS

Yes, that’s right. You will get to witness a Gorilla in a Captain America outfit, more banana jokes than you can handle and; as has been severely implied by the series’ writer, Karl Kesel; your favorite comic book characters flinging their own feces. Quite honestly, what more could you want?

The Hip:

THEY’RE FREAKING MONKEYS!!!!! I mean, what could be cooler. Honestly, until they come out with Marvel Ninjas/Pirates, this is the coolest thing they’re going to do for a while. Also, it features Gibbon, Marvel biggest loser. The WORST villain of all time. Marvel has officially stated that he is the Biggest Loser in their comics. And he’s not on a diet*. Notorious for having nothing go right for him (as in, born a mutant, has had two additional forced mutations, been poisoned and burnt AND MORE), he must now save a universe filled with monkeys. Yes, that’s right, FILLED WITH MONKEYS. And it’s also filled with monkey puns. My favorite one they’ve shown us so far is Spiderman now being Spider-Monkey. (more…)