Category: My blog

Virgin Galactic – Anyone wanna lend me £127,000 ?

Let me just see if I’ve got this right. Richard Branson has opened his new Spaceport. It’s where very rich people will take off and enjoy a short time in space. The Spaceport is called “Spaceport America” and cost $209 million to build, but part of that was funded by the US taxpayer. I wonder how many of those taxpayers… Read more →

Vax obviously can’t be arsed..

Poor old Vax. Dyson has come along and vacuumed up the market (or should that be hoovered?) They’re pretty screwed so, with Dyson taking Patents out everywhere, Vax have just copied the shit out of every Dyson vacuum cleaner. It’s not just the odd likeness either, they’re cloned. Same colours, same styles, same everything almost. Have a look at this.… Read more →

Here’s how I would cut back the BBC

Hey Mr BBC, if you want to save money, why not close some of your crappy local radio stations? OK, perhaps that’s going too far. Why not reduce the power of them at least? Here in the West Midlands I can get BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio WM, BBC Radio Leicester, BBC Radio Shropshire and BBC Radio… Read more →

October. Heat. Mega.

I guess I could fit this into a tweet, but heck – Twitter is killing the traditional blog so I’m rebelling. Eat that Twitter… …oh bum.. this is going to get posted automatically on Twitter anyways… Doah. Well, after the rather glorious weather this weekend (shorts and sun-tan lotion in October here in the UK just isn’t something you ever… Read more →

eBay Illiteracy

eBay is a great resource and can help you save stacks of cash. However, it does reveal those “real people” who use the internet. Let me explain myself a little. I often think that people reading this blog are pretty intelligent and work in IT or similar roles. There are those, however, who sit on Youtube and eBay all day… Read more →

Government pissing money away..

You may have heard about the £469 million that the Government wasted on big Fire and Rescue service control rooms. The IT system never arrived and everything was rushed, but still the Government are paying to lease the buildings. The Beeb had a look inside one of the 8 unused centres today. They’re costing the tax payer £4 million PER… Read more →

Anna and Katy

These two sketches had me crying with laughter last night :) They’re from a comedy show on Channel 4. The channel is doing a “comedy lab” and hopefully they’ll get their own series. :) More on the links below.. Links – Channel 4 – Facebook Read more →

Speed tests

I hate broadband speed tests. Do a speed test now. Wait 5 minutes. Do it again. What happens? Yep, it produces totally different info. Don’t trust them. Still, I ended up doing one today for testing and got this… :) I had to smile a little, even if I do treat them with a pinch of salt. FTTC is, in… Read more →

Creme Brulee and a heat gun

Last night we were eating dinner and, after, we decided to have some creme brulee. We’re not posh – it was from Tesco and had a little sachet of sugar on the top which you had to melt onto the creme brulee with a grill. Well, we couldn’t be bothered, so we had a think and I remembered the heat… Read more →

Build yourself a model boat

I moan about stuff sometimes. Those magazines that get advertised with free gifts or things you have to build… I don’t like them. You may have seen them. They usually sell the first edition for 99p to get you interested, then the other editions are a few quid. Here’s one I spotted tonight. You can build this big-ass boat. Nice… Read more →

Cool new camera technology

Come on, you’ve got admit that this is pretty cool. A new camera technology, available from Lytro, lets you take a shot and THEN decide which bit you want to focus on. Here’s a few examples – click on the shot to focus on different areas. There’s a good video of it in action on the BBC. Read more →

Gotta get me one of these…

Ashton Kutcher (that one who’s with Demi Moore) has taken the place of Charlie Sheen on “Two and a Half Men” after he went a bit mental. Anyhow, the people behind the TV show bought him a little caravan to stop in whilst filming.. More pictures at the bottom of this page.. Read more →

FTTC – Huawei EchoLife HG612 Feeling hot, hot, hot.

A few months ago I added a couple of posts about FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet). It’s also known as “BT Infinity” and basically ramps up your broadband speed by moving the exchange closer to your home. How does it do this? Well, BT add some large green boxes in the street. These are connected back to the exchange via… Read more →