You know the feeling when you are in a room, talking to someone and there is a TV positioned right behind their head. For some reason, you just can’t keep your eyes off it..why is that??

Well you can solve this problem with a universal device that will switch off 95% of TVs. Just point and click

If you need to borrow some cash, have a poor credit rating or just want to try and nab a good interest rate, have a look at Prosper. It’s an online marketplace for matching up borrowers with lenders…you could become a lender too!

Are recent disappearances of bee colonies across the US and Europe caused by mobile phones? Some scientists seem to think so. Research from Germany has shown for a long time that power lines affect bees navigational systems, now research is indicating that mobile phones may be to blame.

Hmmm,makes me wonder if I should get rid of my mobile phone..

Here is a handy website (thanks Sparkles), codes to use for bypassing those pesky phone menus. Yes ANZ, that means you!
http://ivrhacks.com/

Apparently these seven things may enhance happiness: become spiritual, be authentic, know yourself, connect with others, think positively, take control and live healthy. Oh, and get a ring on your finger..

Found today a handy little program for testing websites in multiple versions of IE

I’m a list writer.

I am constantly writing and rewriting lists to try and organise myself. Someone sent me a link to this list/task manager called Remember the Milk. You can easily add tasks, get reminders via sms, email, instant messenger, add tasks while out and about…the list goes on!

This is amazing - satellites have been able to detect lakes hundreds of square miles across, up to 700 metres below Antarctica’s ice

Hopefully someone else might find this bit of code handy too. I used it in a shell script to get the oldest numbered file in a series of files (eg the oldest file from a set of file_1.gif, file_2.gif, file_3.gif, file_4.gif etc)

ls /mnt/nfs/data/file_*.gif –sort=time | tail -1 | cut -d _ -f 2 | cut -d . -f 1

I came across this idea and absolutely love it. One of the biggest issues with normal consumers using solar power are the costs and expertise required for installing and maintaining solar systems in a home. This concept by a company called Citizenrē allows people to rent solar panels for a fixed monthly rate.

Citizenre pays for, installs, owns and operates and solar installation - all you need to do is pay the fixed monthly rate which is set when you sign up for a 1, 5 or 25 year contract. This means as energy prices go up, you’ll be paying less for your electricity while reducing your greenhouse emissions at the same time.

Now all we need is this concept to work in Australia…