GRINDR the iPhone app that Gaydar should have created

I’ve been banging on about this for a year since the iPhone 3G came out with GPS. It’s a perfect fit – gay men, gadgets and location finder. A plug from Stephen Fry on Top Gear hasn’t hurt the number of users either in recent days šŸ˜‰

Plan to test mobile phones on the Underground

Transport for London (TfL) had appealed for telecommunications companies to come forward for a trial on the Waterloo & City line but have drawn a blank.

The aim of the test – originally scheduled for 2008 – was to find how out technically and commercially viable a scheme would be.

All I can say is thanks god – it’s one of the few places where you get peace and quiet from people on mobiles. I commute using the trains and so sadly don’t get the luxury of not being in contact on my way to and from the office.

Still we know it’s possible as mobile operator O2 already offers mobile phone access on the Glasgow Underground. So really it is inevitable that eventually there will be a London trial on the tube.

o2 and ticketmaster

So the o2 page for priority tickets to see Michael Jackson simply has a link to ticketmaster anyway! So that was kind of pointless. Now the ticketmaster website has a lovely message:

Your wait time is approximately 15 minutes or more

If you refresh this page or hit the back button, you will lose your place in line!
We’ll continue to update the page to let you know approximately how much time you have to wait and
we’ll tell you if we’re able to find tickets.

So that’s 15 minutes to let you know if we have tickets even…

Hunt for murderer on the run from Tooting mental hospital

I’m not sure what’s more worrying the fact that I had no idea Tooting has a secure mental hospital or that I had no idea they keep losing patients who go on to murder people!

A convicted killer was on the loose today after breaking out of a secure psychiatric ward that has a history of patients escaping.

A great onion youtube parody

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video
The youtube asks for some decent content parody! Like google care when they are raking in that many ad impressions.

The best job in the world?

Want to be an island caretaker at the Great Barrier Reef? Yes so do I and probably hundreds of thousands of others – especially since the salary is ridiculously high too. Ā£73,500 and a six month contract – smells like a tourism campaign to me but hey I’m heading on over to islandreefjob.com with everyone else – will let you know how I get on šŸ˜‰

cool new browser plugin

Thanks Dave for sending me a link to cooliris which is a great browser plugin – I love Flickr and now with the help of cooliris browsing photostreams is much more fun and so much easier – cooliris works on hundreds of sharing and web 2.0 websites, including the likes of Bebo, Facebook, Friendster, Google, Yahoo and Photobucket oh and not forgetting YouTube
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