Playstation 60GB

I finlly decided I would cough up and get a PS3. It's a lot of money, but unlike the general populace I know just how powerful this thing is, and not surprised it's a lot more than a Nintendo console since they just use cheap out of date technology.
Unfortunately, it turns out Sony have stopped supplying the more expensive 60GB version that has backwards compatibility with PS1 & PS2 games for the European (PAL) market. I can't bring myself to buy a 40GB version that has been "crippled" to make it a few pounds cheaper. I'm certainly not keeping a PS2 connected to my TV alongside a PS3, and there's NO WAY I am throwing away my PS2 games - they're far too good for that!
Sony, for heavens sake, backwards compatibility (as I understand it) is done in software on the PS3 so since you've coded it already, add it to the console! You do WANT to sell me one surely?

***UPDATE***

Just realised this post needs the following added:

I crumbled and bought the 40GB version. Turns out the 60GB was withdrawn from sale due to a rather embarrassingly high failure rate. I was concerned that the backwards compatibility was missing, and still am although I really don't understand what the problem is, and why backwards compatibility with the PS2 needed to be done through hardware. Here's what I think. The PS2 was powered by a 300MHz RISC processor (a single core). The PS3 is powered by the cell - a multi core (there are 7 cores) processor that runs at 3.2 GHz. Now I'm crap at mathematics, but if you could squeeze the miracles that the PS2 achieved with ONE 300MHz CPU, you really ought to be able to create a stable emulator if you have SEVEN 3.2 GHz CPU's available purely in software, or am I missing something? The sneaky suspicion of course is that Sony don't want me (as a PS3 owner) having access to a huge catalogue of cheap PS2 games.

As a footnote, Call of Duty 4 is without doubt the best FPS I've ever seen, but I can't play it because Activision/Infinity/Sony saw fit to not bother including mouse support. I angry as a hornet about that, and may well end up buying this.

GT5 Prologue is just so damn impressive and enjoyable I set up a new GT5 Blog just to talk about it.

Man made global warming - rubbish!

This week I was horrified to discover that man made global warming is now part of the national curriculum here in the UK and my children are being spoon fed this nonsense as part of their education. How on Earth an unproven media scare can be classified as science amazes me.

Here are a few problems with the "theory of man made global warming" which from what I read are not in dispute:

1. Global temperatures fell between 1945 and 1975, just when the post war economic boom was creating ever more man made carbon emissions. Solar activity was lower during this period (as anyone with any common sense knows, it is the sun which ultimately drives climate change).

2. Ice core samples, going back millions of years show a higher level of carbon in the atmosphere are as a result of temperature change. Not the other way around. Al Gore didn't feel this was important enough to mention.

3. Human CO2 production is MINISCULE compared to the natural sources.

I honestly do not understand why this farce is continuing. The theory that it is being used to stifle economic growth in the developing world is an interesting conspiracy theory. The idea that political activists have joined the ecological activists and are using ecological issues to attack governments is easily believable.

I'd love to see some SCIENTIFIC evidence that can convince me that what we are told is happening is really happening. I never will of course - there is no evidence!