Cup Of Coffee

It’s not often – if ever – that I discuss my mates on here. However, there’s one guy I’ve lost touch with and just found on facebook. Back in the day, when I was at college, he and several others made sure that beer was appreciated and loved. As for me, I never touched the stuff… honest. So it’s great… Read more →

Have a read of this forum post. It shows some rather over zealous parking wardens in London attempting to take a car away that had gone just 10 minutes over it’s allowed stay. A flat-bed truck turns up and attempts to quickly pick the car up, however things don’t exactly go to plan as the car tips wildly forwards and… Read more →

What’s happening with the guys at Netvibes.com? It seems that every evening, just as the US comes online, netvibes.com (an excellent online news reader, aggregation tool and start page) suddenly falls off the internet. Over the last few weeks I’ve seen messages like this stating that “New servers” are being put online but I think they could possibly be coming… Read more →

Here’s something you don’t want to see in your mirror. :) It’s the Police… :) Before we pulled over (to let them get by) I took a photo. Don’t ask me why, I think the tiredness is kicking in and I’m going a little delirious ;) Read more →

I don’t normally publish forwarded emails here, but this is a fantastic one and well worth publishing. It highlights the sometimes crazy construction of the English language. See how you do! Can you read these right the first time? 01) The bandage was wound around the wound. 02) The farm was used to produce produce. 03) The dump was so… Read more →

Yes, I do keep plugging this site, but it is rather ruddy excellent. Here’s another fantastic post from the guys at The Daily Mash. Get it onto your RSS reader! Read more →

Well, let’s face it. We’re all screwed. House prices are slipping, fuel prices are rising, electricity costs are going up, food costs are soaring, firms are laying off staff and we’ve already heard the phrase “Credit Crunch” two hundred times. To be honest I thought it was a new type of chocolate bar but alas no. The future, it seems,… Read more →

Here I am. Yep, still alive. For me not to post in my blog for nearly four weeks is a bit strange, but I have very good reason. This is baby Billy. Our son. There’s such a lot to mention regarding the birth but, like most of the massive things in my life, I spend quite some time enjoying and… Read more →

The new “big bird” in the sky is the Airbus A380. Due to todays’ security concerns you’ll never get to visit to cockpit (sorry, I should say Flight Deck) of a plane, so it’s well worth looking at this 360 degree view from gillesvidal.com The array of screens, buttons and computer kit is just amazing. Read more →

The Internet browser market is now more crowded than ever. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari to name just a few. Safari was, until recently not something I used daily. Firefox is my current browser of choice but now, with Safari 3.1 available, I think I might change my mind. It’s blazingly quick and pages look so sexy, clean and… Read more →

When I was young I used to watch Rainbow. It’s a classic kids TV show, but I certainly don’t remember the pilot. Here’s the first episode, complete with a rather scary-looking Zippy and Bungle. It looks like Bungle has stuck his head in the tumble-dryer…! Read more →

Here’s Beth and Brian Willis. Their dogs died recently, so to remember them they kept the hair which had been combed from their pedigree dogs and spun it into a yarn. This then got knitted into these rather “interesting” tops. I bet they stink in the rain… Link – Sky News Read more →

Oh the irony…. I’ve sent this out via email to quite a few people, two of which replied with, “Ha, that’s funny – they spelt Engish wrong” …hmmm. Should I worry ? :) Read more →

Here’s a photo taken by an American photographer called Kyle Cassidy. He went out to ask “Why do you own a gun” and snapped the shots for his book. The Washington Post states… “Each picture in Armed America could be a pro-gun advertisement – or an anti-gun poster. That’s what makes the book so riveting.” I doubt many people outside… Read more →

TheDailyMash is rapidly becoming my number 1 “coffee break” website. I don’t know who writes it, but they’re extremely good at what they do. Top work guys! Here’s a couple of my favourites… – Brits react to the Budget – The Queen has problems opening Terminal 5 Read more →

I’ve just done a search for the HTC P3470 on Google and got this…. :) We seem to be above HTC themselves in the search results! (BLUSH) :) Read more →

There’s been a lot of coverage about the mighty “storm” that’s currently blowing across the UK from the Atlantic. I’ll admit that I’ve tried to make light of these storms, suggesting that a bit of wind shouldn’t be enough to scare the whole country. Last night though we had some quite strong wind and rain. At 4AM I woke up… Read more →

If there’s one thing that gets on my nerves it’s over-reacting to stuff. In every news bulletin and newspaper today and yesterday the headlines seem to concern “the worst storm of the winter”, which is now hitting the UK. The result? Well, down in the South and South West a few branches fell off trees, we had a bit of… Read more →

Let’s not forget, this gentleman still has his finger on the big red button marked “huge nuclear war”. With the US and several Allies still at war and America slipping head-long into a massive recession, the President dances like a fool… I think we can all sleep safely now. Oh, and all this footage is real – they’ve just added… Read more →

ITV is posting some poor profits today. I think I know why. I’ve been doing a bit of research and, after careful analysis, it appears that the majority of programmes are s**t. Let’s take “The Palace” for starters. It’s a drama based on the Royal Family.. not the real Royals, this is just some family that ITV have made up.… Read more →

Take a moment to think about the pilots who fly large passenger airlines in these winds. Here’s a landing at Hamburg airport during heavy crosswinds which didn’t exactly go to plan. The Lufthansa Airbus from Munich struggled through 155 mph gusts of wind upon landing… Here’s how it should be done, courtesy of a BA pilot in a fat 747-400.… Read more →

Last night much of England experienced an earthquake. It was one of the biggest in 25 years and I … slept through it. Compared to certain parts of the world a 5.3 magnitude quake isn’t anything to worry about but… when I got to work this morning.. I noticed the damage that had occured. This is my exclusive picture, only… Read more →