The BBC News Technology website is something I check at least once a day, just to make sure nothing major happens within the web industry that will affect me. This is done with the use of a trusty little tool in Mozilla Firefox which puts RSS feeds into the "bookmarks toolbar".
One story that caught my eye today was
'Cancer link' to heavy mobile use' mainly because over the past few months I have also come across:
+ Mobiles 'don't raise cancer risk'
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Mobile phones 'safe for brains'
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Mobile phone cancer link rejected
and numerous news articles that state mobile phones wont and will give me testicular/brain cancer. This is an issue I am bothered about. As at some point in the distant future I do plan on having kids and don't want to have the consequences of my mobile phone use to affect them or me for that matter. I also never go anywhere without my phone.
I went through a stage a while ago where I didn't like putting my phone in my jeans pockets as I was worried about the unproven speculation that that microwaves being emitted from my mobile phone were slowly cooking something/s down there. But where else do you put your phone? In your jacket pocket? But then it is sitting a few inches from one of the most vital organs in the body (your heart).
It's a loose/loose situation. Unless all of this scare mongering is a load of rubbish. Just like WIFI has been banned from some schools because parents think it's giving their kids headaches. A more likely cause of a headache would be the mono-tonal teacher that has been teaching the same content for the past 20 years in the same mono-tonal way.
I now have given up paying attention to any of these studies and just get on with my radiation fueled life. We are always surrounded by radiation, toxic fumes/chemicals, computer screens that are damaging our eyesight and there is nothing we can do about it.
The iPhone dock is useful though as it provides a seat for my phone whilst I am at the computer, that at the moment is most of the time. If any of these unproven theories are ever proved at least my body is getting a bit of a break.
On another note I have been playing about with parsing RSS feeds into PHP driven sites over the past few days with great success especially with using YouTube user feeds to keep video sections on website up to date. Only a small eregi_replace was required to change the URL from a hyperlink to a flash video link.
The following few days have taught me the true value of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) it is cutting my development time and thinking time down a huge amount.