Or a third of the world.

If you hurry, it may still be there.

Methinks possibly there’s been some kind of error.

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I could write pages and pages on the pros and (mostly) cons of the various muscle/fitness magazines that are published monthly around the globe (notably Muscle & Fitness and Flex) but Men’s Fitness isn’t too bad a read at all, and for this price, hard to turn down.

For just £1 you can subscribe to three issues of Men’s Fitness, delivered straight to your door, with zero commitment. Better, you get a free ‘Summer Workout’ DVD, too.

Sign up here.

It’s a quid. One pound. What have you got to lose? You could be in great shape by early August - perfect timing for hitting the beach to show off your new abs.

This is limited to UK readers only.

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This new Apple Mac video is just the business. Check it out.

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This is the true story of Greg Lasrado, who went from rubbing shoulders with the likes of President Bill Clinton, and this kind of thing:

Over the next few years, Lasrado ploughed his cash into stocks and property. His homes included a $7million Palazzo Versace penthouse on the Gold Coast and a landmark $6million pink house at St Lucia, Brisbane.

At its peak his property portfolio was worth $30million. While he also bought race horses “for the fun of it”, his real passion was fast cars. “At various stages along the way, I owned four Lamborghinis and seven BMWs,” he says. “Looking back now that was was a bit over the top, by anyone’s standards.”

If Lasrado was anything, he was generous. He donated thousands of dollars to charity. A Brisbane waiter told media that Lasrado not only tipped him a few hundred dollars but a brand new watch worth $15,000.

“I never worried about the money side of things,” Lasrado says. “There was always this worldwide client base being billed and charged every month. The money just kept rolling in. Not once did I stop to think what might happen in the future.”

To gambling, heroin addiction, extortion charges and bankruptcy, all in the space of about six or seven years. Today, he owes the Australian government some $5m (AUS) dollars in taxes, and will stand trial in the Brisbane District Court on September 1, charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing grievous bodily harm with circumstances of being adversely affected by an intoxicating substance. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.

(See also “Porn King Admits Torturing Thieves“.)

The point isn’t that porn is bad or porn is evil. His porn empire is pretty much unrelated to this story. Indeed, porn was, and remains, one of the few guaranteed ways to make money online. Does that mean I’m going to do it? Hell, yeah! Well, no, but its easy to look at something like this and assume an X=Y kind of reasoning about how he ended up where he did. Or that he got what he deserved. It had nothing to do with the porn; it’s just your common or garden addictive personality surfacing big-time once the money, and means, are suddenly there. And then crashing and burning.

It’s a very good read. Check it out.

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According to Techcrunch, Google has an estimated one million servers.*

One million.

Imagine that. Imagine fixing that.

Facebook has just raised another $100m in debt, bringing their total to around half a billion.  They’re planning to add 50,000 servers over the next year.

50,000 is bad enough. One million is a lot worse. And get this - Google is adding around half a million per year.

So, in 10 years, and all things being equal, Google will have around six million servers.

When it all goes down - and you do know typing ‘Google’ into Google causes the Internet to crash, right? - how the hell would you know where to even start?

And worse, rumour has it getting into Google’s server room is a lot like getting into the core in Galaxy Quest. The video clip of which I’ve been trying to find on Google (and YouTube, which is owned by Google) for the last half hour. But can’t. I think maybe they’re on the right path.

* Wikipedia disputes this. But heck, 450,000 is still a logistical nightmare.

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