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Following my earlier post about the state of our economy and the Government plans to drop VAT (which is a tax on goods here in the UK) from 17.5% to 15%, The DailyMash have yet another fantastic story on the news. There’s also a great story about the Police here in the UK getting tasers.. :) What a bloody fantastic… Read more →

You’re probably all aware that the economy is completely knackered at the moment so our Prime Minister and Chancellor are trying to find ways around it. Today he’s to announce a cut in VAT – the first change in a long, long time. It’s aimed at boosting consumer spending and getting the economy going again. He’s reducing the rate from… Read more →

Meet two lottery winners.They’re from Stoke (I know, it’s a shame). Skip through the video on the bottom of this page to about 1.20 and you’ll find the lady saying, “We’re not leaving Stoke, it’s lovely”. They’ve won 2.6 million quid, it’s November, it’s cold, dark and raining constantly… And you want to STAY HERE?!?!?! YOU WANT TO STAY IN… Read more →

A year ago I blogged about OneTel and how utterly crap they were. They’ve since been swalled up / taken over / rebranded (I don’t know) by TalkTalk, who are actually AOL. Unfortunately a few weeks ago, in the middle of changing my sons nappy, preparing his bath and cleaning the house up, they decided to call us up. Emily… Read more →

How much does a 55 grand Supercharged Porsche Cayenne cost in the recession? Here’s how much… Read more →

I’ve just had a play with Windows 7. It was running on a fairly old laptop which you wouldn’t normally dare install Vista on. It worked fantastically well, and it made me think… this is what Vista should have been. Put simply it’s got the stability and speed of XP with the GUI enhancements of Vista. Let’s hope that there’s… Read more →

Some months ago I broke my old car. It was a Lexus IS200 and, to make matters worse, it was the second Lexus I’d written off. I caused 14,000-worth of damage to the first IS200 I broke after twisting the chasis. Both cars are fantastic to drive and were rear-wheel driven. I loved the handling but now it’s time for… Read more →

The new series of Top Gear is back and it’s as excellent as ever. On Sunday I particularly liked the Porsche test and the feature on lorry drivers. Unfortunately some muppets have decided to make a complaint about a comment made by Clarkson. Pfff.. Is there room in this world for free speech any more? Link – Top Gear Read more →

My nephew has just come home from school. He’s five. He’s been learning about the “olden days”. He’s drawn some pictures, they’re now on the fridge in his home. The first picture is Princess Diana and Price Charles getting married. The second, a picture of the stage at “Live Aid”. This is part of a project looking at the “olden… Read more →

I’ve just had a Firebox.com spam mail with this as the “featured product”. Just where the c**k is this thing going to live in the house? It’s massive – you can even ride it ! Wait a minute… 300 quid!? Read more →

Woah, I think I’ve found my new car. :) Yep, whilst going around the local Car Supermarket I found their “Deal of the week”. It’s got a massive 19,000 saving included plus it meets all my sensible requirements. Good fuel economy – a massive 20MPG on a good run or …. ahem…. 9MPG around town and nearly 500 BHP. Sensible,… Read more →

We’ve just been to the shops and spent a truck load of money on.. err.. stuff. Food, baby clothes, y’know. Anyhow, while we were out I wanted to look for a rubber duck for little Billy. He’s loving bath time at the moment so a rubber duck seemed to be the thing to get. I spotted this duck on the… Read more →

The Credit Crunch. The Slump. The Recession. Call it what you will, we’ve all got less money than ever. Go to your bank and the cash-point will show a balance of 5 million overdrawn purely because the bank has secretly loaned all the money out. Brilliant plans have been launched in the USA and UK to bail out these banks,… Read more →

After reading TV worth watching on another blog I thought I’d list the TV I’m watching at the minute. Firstly, Little Britain USA. It’s fantastic. It’s on HBO in the USA and the BBC here in the UK. I’ve seen the US version of the show and it seems that a couple of sketches have been moved around but it’s… Read more →

I’ve let my blogging slip a bit recently. There was a time when I’d post one or two blog posts per day y’know. Now it’s a little more difficult, especially when there’s always so much to do. Reviews, news items and forum posts here on the site keep me busy, but there’s also a full-time job and my baby boy… Read more →

Many thanks to everyone who’s drawn my attention to virus warnings popping up when you browse to our site. I’m looking into this right now and I’ve put a fix in place while I investigate further. I can’t find anything in the main site code so I’m gradually going through our advertisers and the relevant Javascript / iFrame stuff plus… Read more →

Reporters asked the US Treasury how they came up with the $700 billion bail-out figure…… “It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.” Umm…. Link – forbes.com Read more →

I’m watching a lot of kids shows at the minute. Things are NOT like they were when I was a child. Now there’s stacks of childrens channels and even a few dedicated to babies! One show is called “The Night Garden” and is just …. mad.. It’s on CBeebies and the characters sound like words Jim Davidson would use in… Read more →

Fifth Gear is going up in my estimation – there seems to be more programmes being made (Top Gear is on a constant loop at the BBC with what feels like 4 or 5 new shows per series) and the filming has got much better. I loved the episode from last Monday – Tiff Needell and Jason Plato test the… Read more →

Woah. Another fantastic cartoon from weebls-stuff.com. This has been going around in my head all day. Release this into the charts. It kicks ass. Hot Tamale.. hot hot Tamale… Link – weebls-stuff.com Read more →

OK, first up I should mention this advert from some months back. It features a classic ’80s tune by “Blancmange” called “Living on the Ceiling” (here’s the music video itself). I always thought that the ad (above) was kinda cool, but never really blogged about it here. So, it was a slight surprise when their PR guys emailed me to… Read more →

So, you’ve seen Firefox and IE, now comes Google Chrome – a new browser which has been written from the ground up. It’s coming very very soon indeed and it’ll be interesting to see what Google can do. It’s designed to be fast, lightweight and power todays web apps with ease. I’ll be downloading it and testing it out, give… Read more →