Open a door, eat a cake, mow the lawn... in fact, do whatever you want on a Tuesday. But if you spent all day doing the above, you're likely bored and in need of some tech refreshment.
Well, the big news today is Sky and Ofcom having a little chat in the media. Ofcom first of all said 'yes' to Sky's plans to stop offering free channels on Freeview, and instead offer a premium subscription package through terrestrial TV.
But before the bubbly was out the bottle, a caveat was added: sports, movies and other Sky-treats must be packaged and priced fairly for competitors.
Sky then 'welcomed' the decision through gritted teeth, and Virgin weighed in with its two penny-worth, as it danced gleefully at the thought of getting Sky One back.
Our good friends the OLEDs also made a welcome return to the pages of TechRadar too today, with Sony showing off its flexible display (yes, bend your TV, flex your monitor etc. etc.). Then Panasonic went and poured cold water over the whole technology by saying it wouldn't make it in the near future.
Come on Panasonic, nobody like a party pooper.
We had a blast with mobile phones today as LG released a low-price touchscreen device, then went all leaky with the leak of (what it thinks is) the thinnest 8MP cameraphone in the world.
Then we had a mobile falling apart, which isn't a bad thing, rather a cool concept device. Facebook upgraded itself for the iPhone experience, much to the delight and joy of those phone-touching pokers.
But Android didn't fare so well: the estimates reckon that it will only sell 200,000 handsets by the end of 2008, which is less than half previously thought.
We reckon the analysts are wrong though. So there.
China Mobile, the mobile network in China proving mobile telephony networks to people in... hang on a minute... oh yes, China, tried to make everyone feel better by revealing it will be looking to bring the T-Mobile G1 to the region as soon as possible.
However, things just went from bad to worse for the world's big tech firms, with the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Google and RIM all dipping in stock market terms.
Google also had its StreetView car, which allows the company to create street level pictures of anywhere in the world, banned from a small town in Germany, and MI6 was left with egg on its face when a camera with loads of important information was sold on eBay of all places. For £17. Bargain.
Of course, there's loads more on TechRadar. There always is, and always will be. And there's nothing you can do about it.
With that in mind, why not just accept the inevitable and head on over to the homepage and have a browse there? It will be like a jamboree for your eyes and fingers, we promise.
Until tomorrow, good friends, and in the meantime sit by the fire, light a pipe, drink some whisky and muse on why you appear to be in a 1950s commercial...


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