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This morning I woke up to two bits of news both making me sad.  The first is the Paul Hunter the snooker player has died of cancer.  He was a great player and I’m sure what we saw of him was only the start of wonderful things in his career.  The world of snooker has lost a big personality and my thoughts go out to his family.  We’ll all miss you Paul.

Secondly, Google has bought YouTube for £882million.  Now I like google the search engine, its the only one I use.  But I have a problem with this big giant of the internet buying what is essentially a ‘free for all’ video hosting site.  As it stood until yesterday you could upload pretty much anything and no-one was really bothered; so copywrite was sometimes broken but no-one really cared.  But now Its owned by Google I wonder how long the entertainment lawyers will leave it alone.  Google has shed-loads of cash that they could try and sue out of them.  The disasterous thing which I think will happen is youtube will loose all its interesting and fun videos because as soon as G notices a copywrited song or tv show they will simply pull it from the site.

How long before we see a new youtube style site pop up to fill the void?  Not long I’ll bet.

Earlier today Richard Hammond, the best of the three presenters on BBC’s Top Gear, attempted to break the land speed record in a jet powered car.  Apparently he reached upwards of 300mph and then had a ‘malfunction’  and flipped it.  Its been reported by different stations that he’s in critical condition in Leeds General Infirmary, but some people say that he was unconcious when the emergency services reached him, while others say he was talking.  All I know is its a tragic thing to happen to such a funny guy.

Hope its not too serious Hampster.