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About four years ago I decided to install my own Sky+. Back then the cost of Sky+ installation was quite high, so I went up the ladder and added a new LNB and ran the extra cable needed myself. Last week my mom moved into her new home. The previous owners had cable TV but my mom didn’t want to… Read more →

For people, like me, who upload videos to places like YouTube this will no doubt make you smile. It contains a whole dollop of swearing, and I mean SWEARING – big, fat swear words that will easily get you thrown out of work, school or college. You have been warned. OK? Good.. Read more →

Saw this on TV last night. You can lend £70 for a week (ideal for funding drug habits) ;). I know it’s only for short-term loans but just check that APR ! There’s other companies doing similar “pay day” loans, including txtloan.co.uk – they will send money into your account after you’ve simply sent a text! The APR is better… Read more →

Another day, another phishing email. These are getting more and more sophisticated, using images from the official websites (why banking websites don’t stop remote linking I’m not sure) and worst of all – they’re not being stopped. I had this one last night but now, a full 20 hours later, both Internet Explorer and Firefox are allowing it to display.… Read more →

…when you can buy a cheap knock-off version from China ? Here it is in all it’s glory, fresh from a random spam email I’ve just received. $348 ? Bargain! Read more →

Don’t ask me why, but Michelle Heaton gets on my nerves. She seems to pop up on every two-bit trashy TV show in an effort to become famous. Apparently she’s a singer or something. Anyway, here’s her falling over .. :) Read more →

Those people at webuyanycar.com have just sent me a mailshot. They may have a catchy song and an advert that makes me dance a little but it all falls down after you visit their site. You enter your registration plate, you’ll get a great valuation, then when you turn up at Carcraft (that’s who they actually are), some nobby salesman… Read more →

It’s perhaps laziness and not having enough time to do it, but I’ve noticed that the main coolsmartphone.com site wasn’t as fast as it could’ve been last month. Google are now reporting site speed in their Webmaster Tools and I’m quite happy to show it here. To be honest, it was pretty rubbish with an almost 9 second load time.… Read more →

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 →

Now, you may not know this, but I’m a massive fan of TheDailyMash. It’s hugely funny and the writers have a happy knack of being bang on the money with their daily news items. Do give it a read. My favourite stories from today include this Lady GaGa story. The second paragraph is comedy genius. Another one worth checking out… Read more →

Here’s how it’s done. This is for getting (AHEM) backups if you know the filename. Just google for.. intitle:index.of FILENAMEYOUWANT Thus.. http://bit.ly/aMozGZ Results in.. http://bit.ly/agQRVr ..or there’s always http://www.jimmyr.com/mp3_search.php Read more →

Further proof, if it were needed, that people are f****n stoopid. Using Google Insight I’ve done a lookup on the most searched terms during the last 7 days. Here’s what people have been GOOGLING for.. (the link above may have changed since I typed this). Yes, people are going onto google and doing a search for google. Irrefutable evidence that… Read more →

The people that host this server have just ramped up their prices. Prices are being increase “in line with inflation” and they’re using the Retail Price Index (RPI) to bump up prices by 3.7%. According to the email I’ve just had … “RPI shows prices for goods and services have increased by 3.7% over the past year, and this manifests… Read more →

Hamilton got told off for his driving in Oz.. They’re being particularly hard on him because they’re launching a new safety campaign called “Don’t be a Dickhead”. No, seriously, that’s what the Australian Government call it.. Read more →

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I can’t really explain this one properly. It’s footage of a lorry on a motorway in Yorkshire. It’s pushing a car along the A1(M) quite happily and, according to reports, the driver of the lorry knew nothing about the car wedged on the front. The video was taken by someone in a car that was OVERTAKEN by the lorry. You… Read more →