Category: My blog

Hello Black Countrayyyyy!!!

I live a few miles from the M6 Toll. Well, actually it’s about 2 miles. Either way, this crash would’ve been all dramatic and wot-not if it was filmed in the USA. Here in the UK, the Black Country accent kinda takes the shine off it a bit. Oh, by the way. The car coming the wrong way down the… Read more →

What’s happened to my internet?

At one point the internet was either a brilliant global forum for free speech or a dangerous, uncontrolled network lacking regulation. Sadly the Governments of this world took the second view and, here in the UK especially, we’ve seen the major ISP’s getting strong-armed into implementing firewalls, warning systems, blocks and policing their users. It’s not porn or disturbing images… Read more →

Sky TV gets on my babs at times

So, I want to record the latest episodes of Family Guy. I whack on “Series Link” on Sky and, just a few weeks later, I’ve got about 58 episodes. From BBC3 to Fox HD, there’s old episodes, slightly newer episodes and, for some reason, three copies of each episode. Checking the episode number is no clearer either. I can’t make… Read more →

Rolf

Personally I can’t believe it. This guy was a TV personality and someone we all trusted and perhaps grew up with too. Now he’s in jail. Still, here’s a sketch from “Not the 9 o’clock news” from many, many years ago .. Read more →

The truth about broadband

I used to work for an ISP and I’ve had up-close and personal experience of both customers and the BT Wholesale side of things. It’s been a number of years since I worked there and now I’m seeing more and more people switching across to FTTC, commonly known as “Infinity” according the BT. However, there’s massive problems which I’m dearly… Read more →