30 December 2007
Time to be Wiinabled
In one of my madder moments, I have become Wiinabled after managing to find one of this years most demanded gifts – a Nintendo Wii. What was even more surprising was I found it on Boxing Day, despite claims that they were all but sold out over the entire country …
29 December 2007
End of Year Site Updates
I’ve been busy doing some background updates to the site, adding some new plugins to the WordPress install I am using as well as adding some tracking via Google Analytics. I have also recently updated the sites theme to make it a bit brighter and more welcoming.
First off the new …
24 December 2007
Merry Christmas
It’s that time of year again when the UK grinds to a halt – it’s Christmas. A time for giving and receiving, over eating and over drinking.
I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and hope you all get what you want. Try not to over do things, and keep the …
17 December 2007
Vinney and Cody start a new business
As most who know me will know, I love American Chopper (shown on Discovery here in the UK) but at the end of the current series the unthinkable happens – Vinnie Dimartino leaves – and he is closely followed by Cody Connelly. Since I heard about this back in September/October …
7 December 2007
Using a TomTom with an O2 XDA Graphite
I recently upgraded my O2 XDA Graphite to Windows Mobile 6 using the upgrade path on the O2 website. Overall this was a very worthwhile process as my phone is now faster and more stable. The downside is I could no longer get my TomTom One V2 and the phone …
26 September 2007
R.I.P ABC1 in the UK
Today is a sad day for my Sky TV viewing as Disney turned off ABC1 in the UK at 12 noon. I had just watched 2 episodes of Home Improvement (one of my favourite sitcoms from the 90’s) when the channel just went off the air. Not having seen any …
2 September 2007
Freecycle – recycling your unwanted waste
Recycling waste is always a good idea as it typically uses less energy to recycle than it does to extract the raw material and make new. Freecycle is a scheme that goes a step further (and has done for quite a while now) by being a service where people with …
24 August 2007
Websites Websites Websites – and now hosting too
For some reason I have yet to work out, I seem to be getting a lot of requests to create websites for different people. I personally have 4 domains, but only this site has anything resembling a website associated with it. Along with my own domains I also host the …