Flour Power

The image above shows the closest I could get from the WiFi service on board of a gobus coach… That was after accepting the terms and conditions and answering questions about my opinion about the service. Yes, they did ask my opinion about it before I even used the damn thing…

Now it’s safe to say the service wasn’t that good, don’t you think?

I got all hyped up when I got the news that Gobus would start providing free on-board WiFi and was eager to test it. And now that I actually get to do it, it just doesn’t work. Big fail.

Well, at least I do have an opinion now, if they ask me again.

UPDATE: On the way back I tried to use the Citylink service, and didn’t work either. And it seems they’re both using the same system (fleetconnect). Well, considering that I have friends who managed to get it working, I’m wondering if it’s some kind of operating system incompatibility.

Back in Portugal I usually had a very small version of the Continental breakfast. That’s when there was a breakfast at all, which didn’t happen very often. Now in Ireland, I sometimes have a full Irish breakfast, which can be a bit overwhelming on a first look. It’s quite heavy on the stomach – sausages, bacon, ham, eggs, beans, black pudding, white pudding, tomato, mushrooms, potatoes, bread, butter, jam, tea and coffee (did I forget something?) – but it’s a great way to recover from a long night. With “only” 2 of each of the ingredients I mentioned, I always feel quite stuffed when I finish it, and I don’t know anyone who wasn’t at least pretty satiated after one full Irish breakfast. I only have it on weekends, and it serves as breakfast, lunch, and sometimes a light snack is enough for dinner. It really is quite more than enough for an adult Human.

So why the hell would someone create this monstrosity?

It’s 10 eggs, 10 sausages, 10 rashers of bacon, 10 slices of toast, five black pudding slices, tomatoes, mushrooms and baked beans. It’s served at Mario’s Cafe in Westhoughton, UK. The price tag: only £10.95 (about €13)! That’s a good price for 5000 calories (FYI, that’s about double the recommended daily calorie intake for men) And if you eat it in 20 minutes or less, you get it for free!

Looks delicious, doesn’t it?

(via The Inquisitr)

The Iran election has been all over the Internet in the last few days, due to the post-election protests over a suspicious (some say statistically impossible) landslide victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current president.

With the Iranian authorities blocking a lot of web sites, like Friendfeed, and major news outlets like CNN failing taking a lot of time to report what’s happening (it’s now finally the top story), Twitter has proved to be the most active news source for the post-election protests.

Recognising this, the Twitter team postponed the scheduled maintenance to try and minimize the impact in Iran:

A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight’s planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).

This is a very significant step by Twitter and a great way to show that they’re serious about becoming a source of real time news. The #IranElection hashtag marks this as the top trending topic on Twitter at the moment, and hundreds of tweets per minute keep flowing.

If you think you have a bad job, take a look at what this guy has to do each and every single day:

Poor man…