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Just when you thought that this blog couldn’t possibly get any weirder, I present to you a picture of our Dyson vacuum cleaner. I know, I hear you. Why? Well, it’s packed up. It’s sucked its’ last suck. This evening it started emitting a strange burning smell so we turned it off and checked the belt thingy at the bottom.… Read more →

I can’t help but imagine the conversation that took place between the British Olympic Association and the designers of the Olympic logo… British Olympic Association – “Hello, we’d like a logo for the Olympics please.” Designers – “Errr…. sure, what sort of design do you want?” British Olympic Association – “Well, according to the research we’ve done over the last… Read more →

Driving home this evening was just insane. There’d been a crash on the M6 at Junction 15 and somehow the driver had managed a head-on collision with ….. the crash barrier. Now that takes skill. After pulling away from the rubber-necking throng I noticed a people-carrier wedged firmly in my rear-view mirror. I mover over then he, and another three… Read more →

I appreciate that this isn’t Windows Mobile related, however I had to stop and give this email from long-time reader Russell Beuken the publicity it deserves. He states… “On May 13th 2006, my brother and his best mate were killed by a drink driver. Earlier this year the driver in question received two 4-year sentences to run concurrently. The maximum… Read more →

When we were in Florida we popped into some very posh restaurants for our evening meal. One in particular was Pizza Hut, but I was a tad confused by this particular offering…. Surely no-one is going to order this ? ;) “Just the right combination of toppings” ? Eugh.. ;) Read more →

OK, we’re back. It seems that yet again that our US server knows just when I step onto a plane, because it fell over on Friday yet again and we we’re off-line. Sorry about this, there wasn’t much I could do about it :( We’ve got loads of stuff coming your way over the next few months, including new competitions… Read more →

We’re at Orlando airport right now waiting for our plane. It’s very, very, very delayed and – instead of spending the afternoon in the heat of Florida – we’re sat in the International Departures lounge looking at a screen telling us just how late we’ll be. There’s several problems here. Firstly, I won’t make it back to work tomorrow morning… Read more →

So I promised you more on the driving I did last week at Daytona International Superspeedway. As I’m now sat by the pool I can tell you a bit more about it. The whole day was handled by the Richard Petty Driving Experience and we’d called them up a few weeks back to organise it all from the UK. After… Read more →

We saw these people yesterday whilst on a trip around Kennedy Space Centre. Before I talk about them (and the fact that they took two seats each on the coach) I must mention Kennedy itself. The whole place is amazing, and it was interesting to see how many countries went into building the Space Station and how Germany contributed so… Read more →

So here we are, once again, sat by the pool. It’s the first real day of laziness today following a week of sight seeing. The first few days here were especially hectic and within minutes we found that the hotel was overbooked. We got shifted to another similar hotel a few yards down International Drive, but it wasn’t the news… Read more →

Following on from all the Nascar references last week I can now reveal what they were for. We’re in Florida at the moment on holiday and yesterday we travelled to Daytona. After some training and safety stuff I was let loose in a real Nascar racer ! I don’t have too much time to tell you how it went (although… Read more →

Good old Paris Hilton. You’ve got to admire her stupidity. After being banned from driving she decided to get behind the wheel again because she “was told” that she could still use the car “for work”. Errrrmmm… no chick, no you can’t. Click here for the full story and then have a look at her new accomodations. At least George… Read more →

My last blog post mentioned the Will Farrell film “Talladega Nights“. It’s a movie revolving around Nascar racing from the good ‘ole US of A. Some of you may have seen this – if not, get it recorded on late-night channel Five or Five US. Sure, some may not be huge fans of this sport and I’ve no doubt that… Read more →

After watching a couple of movies I’m seriously becoming a massive Will Farrell fan. He’s been a star of “Saturday Night Live” in the US for quite a while and has already been in quite a few movies. I think “Anchorman” and “Talladega Nights” were the most recent filns we’ve seen him in, although he’s now got a new film… Read more →

You’ll hopefully have noticed a distinct speed improvement here at CoolSmartphone of late. Amazingly, even though I didn’t have any beer whatsoever, I managed to twiddle about with the MySQL settings successfully and get things running a little quicker. I guess I should explain that last comment. See, I have a strange way of doing things. Usually I only ever… Read more →

Every Thursday or Friday we get the local free newspapers. They’re the usual mix of adverts, property, letters and random news items. Normally the news is ultra local stuff – people complaining about the bins, kids dressed up for the school play and details about road closures etc. There are “serious” stories, such as cars being dented or people being… Read more →

You know when songs end up going round and round in your head all day? Here’s the one that’s been bugging me today.. Read more →

Whilst not quite as good as Top Gear on BBC2, they are at least having a damn good go. Channel Five have improved the filming and swapped around the presenters. Here’s the best bit of last nights show, the Audi R8. Viva Las Vegas!!! Here’s the link if you can’t see the video. Read more →

Emily mentioned this video the other night. I’d gone out to the pub and Emily was at home doing the ironing (believe me, this doesn’t happen too often) :) She mentioned that a video for “Sunblock” had been on TV which seemed to be a little more than just “risque”. For those that don’t know, here in the UK there’s… Read more →

I’ll be honest with you guys here and admit that I’m not a bit football fan. I’m a proud Englishman and somehow I always get a rumbling in my loins when England play, however I’m not overly enthused by the normal weekly games. Football – or “soccer” as my American mates would call it – doesn’t “do” anything for me… Read more →

I need to tell you guys about a horrible experience. It’s something that I hope no-one will ever have to face. It’s hard for me to put this into words, but I’ll try.. The other night we were watching TV. It was a normal evening and we were both sat on the sofa chilling out… but then, it happened. Emily… Read more →

This week Emily has been down in London so I’ve been doing all the house stuff. This popped through the door the other day. It’s one of those “sorry you were out” cards from the local meter reader. This I expected because with Emily away, the house has been empty. However, what I didn’t expect was the scribbled note at… Read more →