Just read an article that sounds like it was written by Borat. Please to give miraculous benefit for betterment life of battery. Anyhow, have advice good. Turn off bluetooth & wireless if not in use. Drop the brightness. Run video off the hard drive, not DVD. Turn off auto-save in Word & Excel :)

This leather metallic laptop bag. Computer Mechanics has ordered a batch and each of our girlfriends is getting one. Kidding. We don't have girlfriends.

Should you wait for Win8 before buying a new laptop or PC? Not necessary, according to Kim Komando, since any new box will be upgradable to Win8 without any drama. The only drama is that the download will take two days and use half your monthly download allowance. Kidding. Don't delay on account of that.  

Dave Taylor explains in this article how to set up a group chat window in Facebook. He also makes the point that group video chats work best in Google Plus. G+ has also added a broadcast facility now, so you can video-cast your birthday party or plea for clemency far and wide. And simultaneously save it to YouTube. For posterity. For the win.

Yes. That's what the web site is called. And it's appropriately named. Mothers! They should have a special day in their honour.

Unverified, but reputed to be a welcome note to Apple employees. Inviting them to not worry too much about a personal life. 

For those of you interested in tall poppies called "Thompson", Yahoo's CEO Scott Thompson has been accused of fabricating a qualification on his resume. "About that computer science degree; I may have made that up". He didn't really say that; instead he said he was "staying focused" which is the important thing, under the circumstances. Story.

Now legal in Nevada. I'm crossing that destination off my bucket list.

The latest attempt by US legislators to give them access to what you do on the internet has successfully passed the House of Representatives. According to the reputable EFF, the bill lets companies bypass ALL existing privacy law to spy on communications and pass sensitive user data to the government. 

Here's their statement on the matter, which will become law if it passes the Senate. More power-shifting legislation is proposed "to secure the cyber-systems that keep our nation running". Source.

Joe Carnevale makes art from everyday objects sometimes forgetting to ask permission first. The barrel man artwork shown here got him 50 hours' Community Work. You DID REALISE it's possible to make a shark out of two vacuum cleaners?

Not making it up. Apparently he's very excited and is getting new stationery as well.

Sometimes people, we just take our education for granite. Warning: a bit funny and contains some bad language. Quote: "This restaurant got a real nice umbeyonce".

Looks like all future candidates for the 2040 US election have been ruled out as unelectable due to their Facebook pages. Details from The Onion. And here's Obama's re-election campaign: "I have big ideas but we'll see how it goes".

Here is the Google dream sequence about its unlaunched product, Google Glasses. And here is the first of undoubtedly many spoofs; the Windows version. Ya gotta laugh.