I break my eighteen day posting drought to bring you the knowledge that used chicken breasts are healthier. It must be true, it’s printed on the takeaway menu for a local Perth restaurant, as shown above.

Image: Used chicken breasts, local restaurant takeaway menu.

All this talk of using shoestring budgets and what you have on hand to release your web2.0 applications, coupled with talk of the new Googleplex being tens of thousands of domestic grade equipment being used for their serving of applications made Bam Creative realise that we needed to get on board in a serious way.

So, with much feedback from our technical advisory board and the top engineers we could get our hands on, and keeping with the idealogy that we should release early and release often means that we’re finally today gone online with our own Web2.0 server farm, as shown in the image above, and these Flickr images.

Those with good eyesight should notice;

• A punching bag
• Internet Starter Book (published 1994)
• Huge green colour swatch
• Internet for Dummies book
• Car air freshener
• Four stress balls
• Macintosh ‘No Disc’ screen
• Monkey doll
• Old bar heater

I’d like to congratulate everyone who put in a few minutes each to build our state of the art facility, and look forward to releasing our Web2.0 applications soon. We’ll be celebrating our launch with pizza and beer shortly.

You know you’re too Web2.0 when;

1. You’re painting your home, and ask the hardware store for gradient paint
2. You wonder why the clouds in the sky don’t have tags
3. You call young families ’start ups’
4. You ask people their del.icio.us usernames instead of their real names at parties
5. You don’t call them parties, they’re called social mashups
6. You wonder why the microwave button doesn’t say SUBMIT
7. You start signing your name like fu.lln.ame
8. You paint your car lime green or light blue
9. You consider opening a bar called ‘Social Network’
10. You buy two goldfish and name them Yahoo! and Google
11. You write love letters in 24 point Tahoma
12. You have more usernames than friends
13. ’syndicate user-contributed web services’ starts to actually mean something
14. You play scrabble, and just add R’s to the ends of other players words
15. You tattoo your Flickr username on yourself
16. You wonder how you even survived back in Web1.0
17. You wonder why newspapers don’t have rounded corners
18. You catch yourself explaining ‘folksonomies’ to your grandparents
19. You find this list untrue and offensive
20. You can’t catch a train without making a Rails joke
21. You like your credit card for the fact it has rounded corners
22. You ask staff at your local clothing store if they have any t shirts in #C4F400
23. You look for the RSS button on your TV remote
24. You find this list funny

Image: ‘Pray for Australia’ sign, Maylands, WA.