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Unless you’ve been living under a very large rock on the wrong side of the moon recently you’ll be aware that next Monday is Christmas Day. To celebrate there will no doubt be many thousands of people buying trees and decorating them this weekend. But wait – how about your own beer tree?! Sure, this isn’t strictly beer – the… Read more →

Agh! Winter, I hate it. Why? Well, all this week I’ve found myself waking up in the middle of the night – I lie there in bed tired and groggy all ready to roll over and go back to sleep when….. …you glance across at the alarm clock… …no, it’s not 3AM… …it’s 7.15…. …and it’s time to get up….… Read more →

It’s the run up to Christmas. I’m running around doing a million different things and yet I feel as if I’m not achieving much. The CoolSmartPhone cat – our cat – is costing hundreds per week in vet bills, we’re busy buying and wrapping presents, writing cards, putting lights and a Christmas tree up, working on the site, working at… Read more →

Woaha! Anyone remember these? Yup, they’re pound notes. I’ve actually purchased these from ebay.co.uk for a “secret santa” thing. We’re restricted to just a pound so I figured it was cool to eerrr…. double it….) :) Read more →

After a weekend of Christmas shopping I figured I’d got off pretty lightly. We’d gone to Birmingham and around the Bullring – Selfridges, Debenhams, Starbucks, Comet, Costa.. not in any particular order. So when I’m feeling that I haven’t spent too much, why does the petrol station take all my money away instead? Bugger.. :( Read more →

Today someone attempted to hack us. They displayed a rather jolly fellow and some text which mucked around with the layout of this page. The person who did this is on 87.238.209.101, which an the IP address belonging to an ISP in Kosovo. The picture and website address is hosted at a Russian domain and the IP above resolves to… Read more →

You may remember me talking about the Christmas ambulance. Well, unfortunately there’s been a bit of rather unfortunate news. It’s broke… Luckily for Santa there was someone available to fix the blacked-out ambulance that he’s been driving around out local town in of late. Phew! Santa can go on with his rounds as he meets local children in the area. Read more →

OK, I’m stuck. It’s Christmas and I need help. I know I’m slightly abusing my position here but I’m a tad desperate. I need to get one of these – a Nintendo DS in pink, yes pink. At the moment here in the UK they’re like rocking horse poo – I just can’t get one anywhere and with just a… Read more →

I’m having another busy week so it’s time to do a quick brain fart in the form of a blog post. Bobby Wallace (he of SmartPhoneCinema.co.uk sent me a news story on the email. It’s all about this news story describing how some thieves took a garage apart brick by brick – removing some 200 bricks – in order to… Read more →

What a weekend it’s been. Yesterday we decided to get a dishwasher. Great, I thought, no more washing up. Surely that would mean less work ? Err… no. Not at all. Fitting the dishwasher in proved to be a nightmare, however I’ll get to that in a minute. Let’s hop back to Saturday when we’re on our way to B&Q… Read more →

Just before dinner I was busy downloading some incredibly cheap albums from mp3spy.ru (about 40p for a whole album and apparently it’s legal too!) … then my belly started rumbling. It was time to come up with a culinary masterpiece for us both…………errrr… chips it was then. On my way to the chippy I stopped at a junction. As I… Read more →

I used to work for a company called EDS in Telford. I didn’t stay long and, if I’m honest, it was one of the weirdest places I’ve ever worked at. For 6 months nobody could really tell me what my job title was or what I was meant to do with the day. There really didn’t seem to be a… Read more →

The weather here in the UK is pretty rubbish at the minute. It’s dark, windy, wet and the roads are greasy. Here’s another YouTube video showing you why you shouldn’t drive quickly in the wet. I should know – especially in the ice – I managed to do a lovely spin in my old car. Doah! :) If you can’t… Read more →

Ummm.. Errrmm… I’m not going to say anything about this particular piece of video – you can get some opinions here if you want. This is the US Army in action somewhere in Iraq. They appear to be taking a slightly different approach with the locals compared to other troops… If you can’t see the video above, click here (tinytube.net). Read more →

I’ve spoken about the M6 Toll before. I live about 2 miles from T6 and we’ve got one of the M6 Toll Tags in the car and both Emily and I use the road. I usually use it if I’m late for work and Emily uses it to get to Birmingham Airport quickly. Although it is strictly a luxury, the… Read more →

Emily had to call Orange Customer Services this evening. Her phone (a Samsung D600e) has been playing up for a while and refuses to turn on. She called up Orange yesterday and waited 10 minutes to talk to someone about a replacement. I was quite impressed with the response from Orange. Everything was done and the new phone arrived this… Read more →

I live in Staffordshire. It’s a lovely area. Actually, if you need me to be accurate I’d say South Staffordshire. It’s so “South” that we’re a few miles away from the lovely West Midlands which is where I was brought up. Yes, I do have the remnants of a “Black Country Accent” and I’ve even visited the famous Black Country… Read more →

Cast your mind back a few months and you may remember how I purposefully replied to a Nigerian scam to show just how well planned and nasty they can get. I kept the whole thing running for several weeks and we received certificates and pictures of cash in huge chests via email. It’s all a big con of course, with… Read more →

Today I was reading a newspaper in the hospital (long story I won’t go into) and spotted this story. Though it may not mean a great deal to a lot of you guys, I have had the pleasure of meeting Susi Weaser of shinyshiny.tv whilst at the Mobius conference in Boston. Congrats Susi on getting a job at the BBC.… Read more →

Are you having problems getting to certain websites today? Well, it looks like PSINet are having some severe problems. Everything seems to be offline – their name servers aren’t responding and they’ve been offline for about 4 hours solid now. The company itself is owned Cogent Communications – which has a terrible reputation in the industry. This is due, mainly,… Read more →

Another day, another YouTube video in this blog. :) This is a video featuring possibly the worst burglar ever. It’s probably been on the internet for a while, however this time somone has decided to edit it down a bit and add some music. Suddenly he becomes the Buster Keaton of our day. If you want to see it on… Read more →

Pah, “I’m a Celebrity, Get me out of here”. What a load of arse. It started yet again this Monday – a load of “never heard of them” celebrities trying to get some cash by doing cheap demeaning stunts for TV. The only one I recognised at first was Jason Donovan. AGH! Yes, I found myself actually watching part of… Read more →