These are my web picks for July 2nd through August 4th:

YouTube – iPhone4 vs HTC Evo – A brilliantly funny conversation of a typical iPhone customer with a mobile salesman. “I don’t care” what the HTC does “I want an iPhone” even if its a brick!
Google Me social networking rumour is “very real” – Reckons rival Facebook’s ex CTO | TechEye – Google to start a facebook rival, it makes a lot of sense, but will it work? Google could have a second mover advantage and take heed of …

As I drove to Dover Ferry port at 3am Saturday morning I heard on the radio it was 100 years since the “heavier than air plane” first flight across the Channel by Louis Blériot in his Blériot XI plane.

(Source Wikipedia) 100 years ago he used the Blériot XI, which was a structurally strong but simple and manoeuvrable monoplane of his design, powered by a 3-cylinder Anzani radial engine with 25 horsepower and a 2-bladed fixed-pitch wooden propeller. He took off at dawn, just after 4:30 AM on July 25, 1909. …

I haven’t posted much lately so this post is a catch up to mention several things that have caught my attention lately.
Facebook introduces usernames
Facebook have now introduced usernames.  This doesn’t make a huge difference to the site itself but does mean that if you want to link people to your page you now can have an easy permalink such as www.facebook.com/CharlesBarsley.  It will be interesting to see how this develops over the next few months and if the site evolves more.  Get your  username here http://www.facebook.com/username/
TV Licencing
June is going to …

I’ve been meaning to write a brief post for a while now on comment spam and a comment I received today pushed me over the edge, but more about that in a minute.
Comments – Anyone with a blog loves comment’s, it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling to know that someone is reading your blog and takes the time to make a comment.  However 99% of all comments are spam!
Spam comments – What do you classify as a spam comment?  You may be surprised to know I get around 100 …

Listening to Net at Night, Amber and Leo interview Link from the comedy duo Rhett and Link.  So I decided to check out their You Tube page and blog.  Their best videos in my opinion are either songs or commercials and they have worked with some big companies like Taco Bell to produce fun viral ads.  Here are a few of my favourites.

The Fast food Folk song was recorded for Taco Bell, although the employees at the branch they hit didn’t know this.  I can’t believe they managed to take …