Apologies!
Wow, I do apologise for not giving you a daily dose of my personality yesterday, I managed to follow a day at university with several hours running round at work, so by the time I was home I was feeling pretty drained. Surely you’ve had this at some point in your life? Well, I just couldn’t bring myself to write anything witty and amusing, so I didn’t bring myself to write anything. Fair enough I think you’ll agree, my motto as always, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.
As I write this now however, following a wonderful day of losing money at online poker, I feel refreshed and rejuvenated, if a little poor. So here we go, I plan to cover a few things today as I have a back log of articles building up in Firefox. Stick with me, I’m going to skim quite quickly over the last couple days, okay? Ready? Go!
First off, the story (fiction) of yet another major Internet backbone cable being broken in the Middle East. I say fiction, because the conspiracy theorists of the world are united in their efforts to bring meaning to the freakin’ coincidence of two cable breaks in a week. Please people, relax, Egypt will still be able to access online pornography, don’t you worry.
Next up, a new record for valuable domains has been set with cruise.co.uk buying cruises.co.uk for over a million dollars (I say dollars, because, even in the current economic climate, they’re much cooler than pounds). Wow! All that for a co.uk? Seems over priced if you ask me, but then what do I know, being but a lowly bloggist. Sigh. Of course being a UK domain means that it is inherently cheap and nasty, as proven by the two most expensive domains of all time, sex.com and porn.com, which recently changed hands again for nine million and eleven million dollars respectively. Needless to say, it’s obvious what the Internet is home to.
The next titbit to catch my eye was the interesting news of Egg’s website outage, announced a little too recently to the culling of the less interesting credit card customers from it’s books, for theorists to take sitting down. That was a mouthful wasn’t it! Woah. Umm, yeh, well egg.com was down for about 24 hours, so obviously, the hacker who had his card declined wasn’t that awesome.
Also in the last couple days, I discovered how to write ‘supermarket‘ in Chinese, I learned that shooting at youngsters is acceptable some of the time, HSBC doesn’t have anybody check the doors are locked when they close, and people would like their poultry to be a little more expensive.
And as a totally random distraction, I also found this amazing shopping website. Check it out!
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