Tuesday Tech Tune

This week on Tuesday Tech Tune we have New Wave sensations Ultravox! The song is 'I want to be a machine'.

They were actually originally known as Tiger Lily, I wonder if this is where the Hutchens' got the idea from. There is a real Bowie vibe to this song.

One of its later additions Midge Ure, while being an accomplished musician, is the co-writer and producer of Band Aid single 'Do they know its Christmas' (i will add this video below just in case you have not had the pleasure of seeing this clip). Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is up to you I guess.

So lets hear what the boys have to teach us about technology. Open your notebooks and keep your pens poised to note down such gems of wisdom as -

"I walked at boulevards again
A nebula of unfinished creatures
From the lifetimes of my friends
I hope your innocence has depraved me"

Mark finds a new religion & our regular Tuesday Tech Tune

iPhone therfore I am

It was a big day in this nerd's life this past Friday. Finally, finally the iPhone arrived in Australia and I had the good fortune of picking up the 8gig model. (I got the last one at The Glen without having to queue.)

For me, the iPhone is the last piece in the puzzle. Now I'm a connected and fully operational nerd everywhere I go, from a trip to the supermarket to a trip to the loo.

Yes, I'm one of those people who likes to be technofied all the time.

People have tried to ween me off the gadegts, the theory being that within every computer geek is a hippy trying to get out. Such attempts always backfire.

The funny thing is I was fine with the digital deprivation . It was the intervening friends and family that couldn't handle the truth.

They just couldn't cope with the reality that without my widgits and doodads I was just a redhead with a penchant for decaffinated cola beverages. No hippy emerged. No appreciation for soy products developed. All there was was a bloke with eerily cold data starved eyes staring back at you. Many were driven to madness.

So yes, I got an iPhone and I highly recommend you do too. And if your associates tell you to wake up and smell the roses tell them to wake up and smell the wifi, then capture their indignation on your lovely new iPhone camera.

Sent from Marks iPhone



On this weeks Tuesday Tech Tune, your weekly dose of songs about technology, we have the inimitable Kraftwerk.

I couldn't help myself I just had to add a few of the comments in You tube under this clip. If you can find a better example of geek humour then I will eat Stephen Hawking's left foot.

hyberpolo - 0100101101010110101011010011110101110101!!!!

Applemask - I don't understand your accent. However, 01011001010011110101010101010010001000000100110101 00111101010100010010000100010101010010.