Lazy Robot

So I just got back from seeing Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen , and having read various reviews from serious film-lovers and SF fans, I really didn't know what to expect. After all the anti-hype, I hoped it wasn't as bad as all the reviews made it out to be. But do you know what? I really enjoyed it. Yes, sure, it was absolutely ridiculous. The storyline was present, sort of, and there was a lot of very silly slapstick moments throughout the film, but none of that is really a criticism. If you were hoping that the Transformers franchise would be turned into a serious, epic SF story arc with poignancy and emotion, then you will definitely be disappointed. If you were hoping that it would be a comedy action flick with lots of things blowing up and big robots fighting a lot, then you are most certainly in for a treat! There's not a lot else I can say about it really. It was a good film insofar as it was very entertaining. If that's not the point of such things,...

Good news! If you are fortunate enough to own an iPhone 2G, and have unlocked it to any network using my previous instructions ... The OS 3.0 upgrade will present no problems at all, except it seems that the Youtube application doesn't work unless you are on a "proper" iPhone contract. No idea why, but it claims not to even be able to contact youtube.com. Very strange. Not a big loss for me, seeing as I never used it, but there it is.   So just let iTunes do its thing and upgrade the phone. The baseband on the 2G remains untouched, as does the bootloader. It's all good.

Last weekend, the company that used to host this blog ( 4Uhosting ) had a major meltdown, along with several other companies using the same datacentre. The UKGrid Greenheys DC had a major power outage, taking out many servers entirely and effectively causing many hosts to drop off the 'net completely. A news update on the support page at 4uhosting.co.uk had the following to say: "We would like to make it very clear that this incident occured through no fault of ours. It could happen at any facility at any time. We rent floor space in UK datacentres to run our business and we do not expect this kind of thing to happen. Unfortunately, from time to time it does and we can neither predict, or prevent such problems." Fair enough, if your entire data centre melts down and takes servers out with it, you can't expect to have a great deal of control over the situation and it comes down entirely to disaster recovery. They did, in fact, do a grand job of moving their entire o...