Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! I hope 2012 will be filled with happiness and success for everybody.

2011 was filled with plenty of talking points, breaking news and food for thought, as well as some happier moments and rarer occasions, such as Prince William and Kate Middleton's stunning wedding.

For me, I already know 2012 will be a year of change in a number of ways. Hopefully more positive than negative.

The picture above shows just how much a Dyson hoover can actually pickup from your carpets without you realising it's even there! (I'm sure they have little pixies inside the thing just pouring it into view to baffle you!). This was taken after I used it for the very first time to hoover my apartment, which consists of 2 bedrooms, a lounge/kitchen, bathroom and entrance hall...pretty standard. But LOOK at how much it picked up! And that's not because I'm a messy sod; trust me (OCD...).

Even better, this Dyson is a new toy for me...yes I did just call a hoover a new toy.

£40 from a local hoover repair man was all it took to land this baby! And now my carpets will never be the same again...joyful.

I'm not going to go into an in-depth explanation, I'll leave the YouTube video above to explain it.

But it's pretty simple, and sick.

Billie Joe Armstrong, of the band Green Day, was recorded on video screaming at thousands of fans at a concert in Lima around one year ago. The singer shouts disturbing words about Steve Jobs and cancer, after previously shouting how much he hated technology (oh the irony of this moron selling millions of records only made possible with such technology, being active on Twitter and no doubt being the owner of the latest iPhone/Galaxy S II etc).

Begrudgingly I'll quote what was said, purely on the basis that Warner Music Group has filed a copyright claim on the source video.

I can't wait for Steve Jobs to die of fucking cancer! - Billy Joe Armstrong

Take a moment for those exact words to sink in...then realise how disgusting, vile and inhumane those few words really are to anybody, let alone about a man with a history of battling so bravely against the sickening disease.

The original footage is currently being pulled by Warner Music Group as much as possible, so I'm not going to post a link to where you can view the offending content. But a very simple Google search will uncover it.

Please, if you have any soul, morals, heart or sense, boycot this excuse of a band. Delete any content of them that you may have, ignore any future releases and expose this disgusting truth. As somebody with a personal experience of cancer, like many, I find this so hard to stomach...it's totally knocked me sick. I wonder how he'd feel if the shoe was on the other foot.

#fuckgreenday

Alongside today's Kindle Fire launch announcement from Amazon, they also introduced another offering; Amazon Silk.

"The browser observes aggregate user behaviour across a large number of sites," said Jon Jenkins, Silk's director of software development. "For instance, we might notice that people who view the New York Times homepage, often go to the New York Times business page afterwards. Our browser is capable of detecting these aggregate user behaviour patterns and actually requesting the next page you're likely to need before you even know you need it."