Playstation Price Cut

Sony has suprised everyone and cut the price of the Playstation 3 by $100. It has never been a better time to buy a Playstation 3 as Sony are highly unlikely to make another price cut. The price of the 60GB PS3 is $499 now.

Sony have also announced that they will bring the 80GB PS3 into the US market for $599 next month.

You can already see the price cuts at the Playstation Bible site, so head over and begin buying now!!!

Live Earth Favourites

OK, I watched Live Earth on cable and enjoyed many of the performances across the world. I'll be honest - I did fall asleep on some of the newer big name performances. Some of the newer big acts (no names to be mentioned) sound good on your MTV, radio and MP3s but generally are not so good in a live performance.

This post is for 2 of the performances that really caught my attention.
My favourite performance was a song called "From Little Things Big Things Grow", sung in the Australian Live Earth by Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins, Tim Conway and John Butler. This song stuck in my head long after all the other performances. One thing I have to say, Missy Higgins is sooo cute in this song. I just loved this performance and would reccommend you all have a look at this video if you missed it:





The concert in Japan featured a band called Rize. WOW, these guys rocked big time. I thought they were going to be just another wanna be metallic/hard rock band but they totally held their own. My mum actually watched the entire performance which suprised me and just shows how well they captured the attention of the audience. The US singers performances at the Live Earth Japan afterwards felt extremely lackluster and Xzibit for example did not come even close to the audience reaction that Rize got.

Check out the performance by Rize here - do watch the entire performance to see how good they were:

Captain America Collectables

Ok, how many of you actually collected Captain America comics? I read them but could never get into them to go buy or collect them.

As with all things, there are folks out there who are hardcore fans. Of particular interest is a few auctions going where Captain America memorabilia is giving Spider Man a run for the money.

Click the following for examples of Captain America Statues on auction and the number of bids going:














or check Captain America Statues Auctions for more.


That's just one example. Will a Captain America movie make them worth more, unlikely perhaps unless it is as successful as the SpiderMan movies.

England on Auction !!?

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Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Are Engaged !!

I was checking through some search queries and found out that Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai have gotton engaged . Congratulations to both of them.

I really really hope this future marriage is a good one. I have felt sorry for Aishwarya Rai as she is so larger than life in India (and around the world), and as such would have a tougher time finding a partner who loved her as an equal (not a trophy wife, or smitten/lust type love).

Abhishek seems to be a good guy - my Aunt met him and was very impressed how down to earth the guy is. I am not sure what happened between him and Karishma Kapoor but hope this going to be a fruitful relationship.

I wish them both the very best and hope they will be happy together in a harmonius relationship.

Lycos and Hotbot Down Update

Now that Lycos and its websites are up, newsites are beginning to report on the outage.

Basically put, their internet provider Savvis had an extrodinary outage where two of their Data Centers went offline.

Now note that these Data Centers have backup lines to cater for various types of outages. So, what went wrong? Well, the backup data line connecting the Data centers was accidentally severed while repairs were being conducted on the main line which was also down at the time. Talk about Murphy's Law in full action.

I have seen no figures yet as to how many sites were affected but wow!! Every site in the Lycos network in the US was offline for way to long. Lycos stands to lose users as a result of this - already something hard to keep hold of in the world of Google, MSN and YAHOO.

So, who gets to pay any lawsuits should they pop up? Actually, will any lawsuits come of this? Note that many other websites went offline, not just the Lycos Network. Either way, good to see Lycos and Hotbot back home on the Web.





Blog entry when it went down http://iceorb.blogspot.com/2007/01/lycos-and-hotbot-down.html

Lycos and Hotbot Down

For a while it looked as if HotBot was gone - to become just another part of Internet History. Forget getting to Hotbot, I could not even resolve its DNS address. Upon further investigation, it looked like Hotbot UK was ok.

So...

Think process goes that if Hotbot is gone, then Lycos would have some sort of new message about it (they own HotBot). Guess what, Lycos had the same issue!!!
Every Lycos site in the US including their news, mail and main site were down. I noticed the Canadian site for Lycos down as well.

Now something has gone terribly wrong here. The way the internet is designed, there should have been redundancies built in so that both Lycos and Hotbot could be resolved if the primary DNS was out.

Should be interesting to see what the press release about this comes out as. One would suspect a major stuff-up on the side of their ISP or Registrar.

We wait....