Pentankh Eternal’s Blog

Scientists have invented a remarkable toothbrush that lets you listen to pop songs while you scrub away - by transmitting the sound waves through your teeth and jawbone to your ear

I’d give my iTeeth for something like that…

The Register reports that Google plans to use PC microphones to collect statistics on a user’s environment. Peter Norvig, who directs research at Google, told Technology Review that this software would start to show up in Google software ’sooner rather than later’. The software collects short sound clips and removes background noise. Google then targets its ads based on the statistics collected. With the current level of online privacy, this new level of invasion would seem to have frightening possibilities.

 Reminds me of this quote from Futurama:

My internet browser heard us say the word “Fry” and found this movie on Philip Fry. It also opened my calendar to Friday and ordered some french fries.

Go Google!

Heyooooooooooooooooooo!

 I finally got my new mobile phone. It wasn’t the one I talked about before. I had been chatting to a friend of mine (Hi, SirK!) and he was telling me about this funky phone called the Sony Ericsson K800i. If you plug it into a Windows PC and put it in File Transfer mode it automatically uploads Windows drivers to your PC and becomes a USB Storage device. If you want it to share out the 3G internet to your PC then your PC sees it as a standard Windows ethernet connection which means you don’t need special software. The camera in this is 3.2 megapixels which beats the pants off the 6280’s 2mpx camera.  Here’s some specifications:

Specifications

Not bad for a mobile phone It fits neatly into my old phone’s case too with a bit of room to spare, but the camera out the back makes the fit snug nonetheless.

Tonight I went and checked out the local Ten Pin Bowling alley and had a couple of games. First game I scored 160 and the second 150. When I left they asked me to join a league team so I did and now will be playing every Monday night. How’s that?

From http://www.couriermail.com.au/:

THE Crocodile Man, Steve Irwin, is dead.

He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said.

It is understood he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest.

He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that’s when it occured.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.

It is understood Mr Irwin was killed around midday,  Eastern Australian time.

Now I’ve seen a lot of Press lately that Nicole Kidman has a baby bump which was faked in photos by journalists. Above you can see an image and she is definitely bumpy. You can tell this image has in no way been altered and it’s a totally original photo. It’s obviously a pose so she must have agreed to it. Now let’s stop calling journalists liars. I know for a fact that none of the photos of models and stars have been altered in any way in any photo either published in magazines or on the internet.

Thursday night I got home ready to heat up my leftover pasta and rush to poker. Wouldn’t you know it but the microwave died…. sorta. Well, I’d set it for 5mins to heat and after 10sec it turns off. So I tried again and it did it again. So I tried 10min and after 30 sec it turned off. I wonder if I put it on for 2 hrs if it would have heated for 5 mins? Anyway, so I heated it up in the frying pan and headed off to poker.

My game of poker finished way before the 8:15pm half time break so headed to the shops to find a microwave.

I first nearly went to Homeart cos they have an “up to 80% off sale”.. but figured they’d not have a microwave so went to KMart. I then checked Target and found another better one so went back to go to KMart again and decided to check Homeart since I thought I saw a microwave up the back. There was a Cookwell Microwave 25L for $179 (down from about $299) so I grabbed that and two touchlamps for my bedside tables. I headed home and threw out the old microwave (which turned out to be 42L!) and installed the new one.  The weird thing is this microwave does not have a clock on it to tell the time. Only the countdown for the cooking. Never heard of that before. It only has 5 buttons on it, but looks nice. I will take a photo and post it here cos I can’t find any Cookwell Microwaves on the internet to link to!

Sienna is asleep in the bedroom so I’ll just take a photo of the side of the lamp box and you can see:

Here you can see one of Sienna’s favourite sleeping places:

Yesterday some guys from work and I went down to the bridge in Brizzy and saw the jets doing a test flyover for the Brisbane River Festival:

I got a phonecall yesterday from my phone provider and they said I can upgrade to a new Nokia 6280 for FREE!!!!!!! Yay! I’ve about had enough of my Motorola A1000. Time for some new blud. This one will have better camera, faster boot times, less crashing and other stuff. I CAN’T WAIT TO GO! I’m so excited I’m going in on Monday and getting my new fone. I also get to keep my old mobile phone but have to sign another 2 year contract. Oh well. Gotta be connected through SOMEONE!

Had a fun day with Sienna today. We got up around 7:30ish (well I did. she got up earlier and went to watch tv). While having breakfast I remembered the Sydney Morning Herald had a free CD if you bought it today so we rushed off to the shops! I got my Beethoven CD played by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as well as some light bulbs for my lamps (who would think they wouldn’t come with bulbs??? everyone? oh ok..). I got a bubble making gun for Sienna and some toy boats for the bath.

When we got home I put on the washing (clothes and dishes) and we went out the front and planted some bulbs and seeds (not the light bulbs you nong!). She had so much fun doing that. She loves to help out around the house. I had bought some more solar lights during the week. Two for $10 so got four. We put them up the driveway so it lights up at night.

We played for a while then she watched some Little Einsteins and I put her to bed and she went to sleep in there. That gave me some time to type this up and play a few games of Texas Hold’em Poker on PartyPoker.com

That’s it for now cos it’s cutting into my Poker time