I had an excursion into central London this morning to perv at support Lady Godiva with her naked plinthing.

I took my trusty Apple MacBook Pro and used my 3G MiFi device that I acquired from the Three network recently. I had never used it in anger before as the ’3′ network is poor in Bricket Wood.

It works really well. No need for drivers, no need for wires. It connects wirelessly to the notebook. Connection speed was good, I streamed video from the net, chatted on Twitter and surfed all at the same time.

With this device wireless broadband has come of age. The MiFi put’s a ‘bubble’ of your own personal wireless internet around you, use a laptop, iPod or iPhone or indeed all three at the same time to connect to the web.

It makes an iPod Touch running Skype very close to an iPhone but without the costly monthly subscription.

So far the wireless USB dongles have been less that inspiring, but this raises the game. True wireless for ANY WiFi enabled device.

The ‘Mac Format‘ magazine has published one of my letters. Very excited to get into print, even more so as it’s this month’s ‘Star letter’. See my prose on page 20 of issue 213 – October 2009.

As if that was not enough those veterans of all things Mac and geeky Dave Hamilton and John F Braun over at the ‘Mac Observers Mac Geek Gab‘ used an audio clip of mine in the show broadcast on 14 September 2009 – show number 218.

These things usually come in threes, (in a strictly secular way of course) so I am waiting the next item on the list…

Derren clearly did not predict the lottery result as he did not show the numbers until AFTER the draw.

There are a number of ways he could have proved he had the numbers correct.

Do the show in front of a live audience.
Get an independent adjudicator.
Buy a ticket!

But he did none of these things. Clever trick, but it was just that, a trick. It has got him a lot of publicity which I am sure will help his show business career.

I have yet to see an illusion or magic trick which leaves me totally baffled, I can usually work out how they are done. I suspect Darren used a camera trick to hide the balls being put in place by an accomplice, hence the lack of live audience or adjudicator. But it takes courage to do it live, it all had to work exactly or Darren would have looked a fool.

5/10 for the illusion.
10/10 for courage.
10/10 for generating publicity.
0/10 for bullshit explanation.

“NEXT…. ”

I got bored with ‘Scruffy’.

So here we are with Ahren Ahimsa.
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