I have moved to a new Wordpress 2.3 blog at a new site.

Please visit: http://markbenson.org/blog/

I don’t frankly give a crap what else happened in Tech in February of 2008. i don’t care bit the MS >> Yahoo merger. I don’t care about new MacBooks, or The iPhone SDK, I don’t give a flying about any of that.

This is what matters and I’m absolutely chewing at the bit to get my hands on it:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224

It’s Microsoft Worldwide Telescope. I think it is, from what I’ve seen at least, truly wonderful. It made Scoble cry, apparently. Frankly I don’t blame him, I can’t wait to show my niece this.

So here I was sat at my desk, playing with my new LAMP server, and suddenly the whole house shakes like nothing I’ve ever experienced.

It would appear we had an earthquake! Epicenter is reported to be about 30 miles west of here and magnitude 4.7.

It’s rare to even have a quake in the UK, especially one of this mag. It’s been felt right across the centre of the country.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/0_55.php

Epicenter map form USGS and info.

Yeh, sorry, I’m not having an interesting time atm. MacWorld was a bit of a let down, the Air is a nice looking, ne stunning, lightweight laptop but it has fundamental drawbacks that even an ultra-portable user will eventually find inexcusable. 1 USB port? No FireWire? Oh please…

In other news, I bought 2 500GB drives for the Mac Pro because I’m sick of running out of hard drive space. I found out the Apple Wireless (Bluetooth) Keyboard works flawlessly with my Windows Mobile 6 HTC Touch. I also worked out how to use the Bluetooth phone system with sad same HTC Touch in a Land Rover Discovery 3 the other day and I have to say it’s DAMN cool

Wait, that all sounded vaguely interesting. Oh well, whatever…

Hi y’all, just wanna wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

I’m sat here typing on my new Apple Wireless Kyeboard and god-damn I have to say this is a revelation to type on.

Have a good one… I’m off to help give the gift of iPod to my bro’s g/f

… of the Christmas Holidays! I am now using MarsEdit registered and fully paid up. Less guilt - more blog - everyone’s happy

Erm, until probably Friday, when I get paid. I have to register MarsEdit (and I will because having it there on the desktop and a handy OS X app makes mr blog more!!).

Why won’t I just use the web interface that’s been so excellently crafted into Wordpress? Well simply because the rich editor doesn’t work in Safari and it involves doing to much clocking to get to it. I think Wordpress needs a ‘POST’ button in the admin tools at the side bar.

While you are waiting in the lobby for your next flight you might want to muse these:

QuickLook Plugins (sorry, Leopard only )
http://www.quicklookplugins.com/
http://www.qlplugins.com/

In the News:
Macalope: I’ve got nothing against the iPhone. I just wouldn’t want my daughter to marry one.
PC World: Top 15 Tech Disappointments of 2007

More when I return (I hope).