Month: April 2010

Following news of abuse accusations within the Roman Catholic church, this picture is now whizzing around email boxes.. I’m saying nothing… I think it probably seemed like a good design at the time. Read more →

They’re like the Red Arrows… but.. actually.. no, they’re nothing like the red arrows… Here we have the UK’s only mobility scooter display team. The best video is probably here at the BBC – wait until about 20 seconds in. I’ve also found the video below. The cross-over bit is simply ummazin’.. Links – YouTube / BBC News Read more →

I’ve read a lot of articles by Guy Kewney. He’s worked for IT Week, Personal Computer World, eWeek and has run his own newswireless.net site for quite some time. Sadly he passed away this morning after being diagnosed of cancer in 2009. We’ve linked to a lot of his stories over the years and he’s a great loss to the… Read more →

A long while ago I blogged here about a pirate radio station in the Midlands called Midlands Underground. It got shut down shortly after (like they usually do) but now there’s another one, and this time it seems to be even bigger. It’s called Frontline and they seem to be quite high on the “pirate quality” scale. What is the… Read more →

This one comes from The Sun and features a brilliant headline. It’s about a marketing campaign / complaint for a store called “Simply Dutch” up North somewhere (ker-ching). Apparently some nutter has complained about a 4ft stone penis in the shop window. The Police were called because apparently it’s against some old law or something and constitutes an “offence”. Loving… Read more →

Hello peeps. I’ve been made an MVP again. Amazing but true. Although the Windows Mobile platform is currently undergoing the biggest change of its life there’s still a helluva lot of people out there using it and loving it. The Microsoft letter tells me that.. “The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide… Read more →

I’m perhaps showing my age here but you’ll all have seen the classic 80’s show anyway. This is how it looked in the 1980’s.. Now they’re making a movie out of it. Obviously they’re not using the original cast and it’ll either be a huge success or a hilarious failure. It’s got Liam Neeson in it though, and they’ve not… Read more →