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ROFL.

Classic ‘The Onion’ news story.
New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

Peak Oil

Two quite interesting stories in the press. First up is the Guardian’s reporting of Lloyds of London’s acknowledgment of Peak Oil.

One of the City’s most respected institutions has warned of “catastrophic consequences” for businesses that fail to prepare for a world of increasing oil scarcity and a lower carbon economy.

The Lloyd’s insurance market and the highly regarded Royal Institute of International Affairs, known as Chatham House, says Britain needs to be ready for “peak oil” and disrupted energy supplies at a time of soaring fuel demand in China and India, constraints on production caused by the BP oil spill and political moves to cut CO2 to halt global warming.

“Companies which are able to take advantage of this new energy reality will increase both their resilience and competitiveness. Failure to do so could lead to expensive and potentially catastrophic consequences,” says the Lloyd’s and Chatham House report “Sustainable energy security: strategic risks and opportunities for business”.

Japan, low tech country?

Quite an interesting article which is a bit of an overview of the paradox of Japan being consider to be high-tech… yet being completely backward sometimes when it comes to technology.

Popped into town today, and stopped off at the Apple Store (the new one in St. Davids 2 shopping centre in Cardiff). As expected, a fair old crowd around the iPad table with people playing around with the demo machines.

Had a quick play myself. However, unlike when I had a play with the iPod Touch/iPhone for the first time, there certainly wasn’t the the feeling of “Oh my God, I really want one of these now!”. Yes, nice device, kinda funky. But not a ‘must get’. The ‘locked down’ model for iPhones makes sense to me. However, for a laptop type computing device, it felt to restrictive. I guess I still want a good old fashioned MacBook instead.

Why the hell have I bothered with it for the last year or so?

I guess the last day or so has been a bit of an epiphany, where I realised Facebook really is a pile of shite!
I mean really, what’s the point of the stupid applications which people waste their time playing on (come on, surely there are more interesting things to do), the aquisition of ‘friends’ who aren’t really your friends (who you never kept in touch with after school, why is Facebook any different) etc etc.

So, today, the process of Facebook Account 切腹 (Seppuku) has started.
Since I don’t trust Facebook to clean up properly, I guess I’ll pollute my account with junk for a month or so, before finally ‘deactivating’ the account.
Also, since Facebook are spoil-sports and banned things like Seppukoo and Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, I’ll have to do this the long winded manual way.

PS: Family, real friends etc…. don’t worry. I’m not ‘real-life’ suicidal, just Facebook life suicidal.