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British visitors will already be well aware of this but for everyone else let me tell you just how warm it is. I took this snap a few nights ago whilst popping to the shops when it was particularly hot. The air-conditioning still wasn’t on because I’m a tight git and my 1-a-litre fuel isn’t gonna get spent powering the… Read more →

It’s sale time again, which is pretty good news if you can afford to buy anything. We can’t, we’re skint. If you’ve just got married and recently come back from Honeymoon then you’ll probably know how it feels. Getting married is very expensive and the “multi-centre” holiday afterwards is by no means cheap either. So this weekend we both agreed… Read more →

The British people are a weird bunch. If it snows then we’ll all say, “Oohh, it’s too cold”. If it’s a bit warm – like now – people will say, “Oooo, it’s too hot” ! You just can’t win. We’re not alone though because in Los Angeles there’s a heatwave too. It’s got so bad that the mighty MySpace recently… Read more →

When I was a little’un I distinctly remember spending Saturday afternoons watching the wrestling on ITV. Yes, it’s showing my age a bit but some of you may remember the likes of Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy slapping each other around in an almost panto-like way. It was nothing at all like todays’ WWE crap and although it pioneered the… Read more →

A few years back I first had my Nokia 5 (it was like a brick with a rubber aerial) on Orange. One of my primary reasons for choosing them was because they had free itemised billing. How things change. Suddenly, and for no real reason that I can see, there’s a charge of 1.50 per month for having an itemised… Read more →

Meet Emma Cox, 28, and Luke Pittard, 23. These guys live in South Wales with their respective parents and they both work in the Pontprennau branch of McDonalds. In fact Emma has worked there for 10 years and has worked up to area manager for 16,000 a year. Luke meanwhile is a staff trainer on 12,000 a year. They both… Read more →

The Middle East has been plunged once again into an escalating crisis. More attacks, bloodshed and air-raids and no end in sight as Israel and Lebanon trade blows. The Hezbollah raid into Israel, in which eight Israeli soldiers were killed and two were captured, was a provocative attack which caused Israel to immediately retaliate. The situation is pretty desperate, with… Read more →

It’s great to see Top Gear back on Sundays again. I laughed pretty much all the way through. If you missed it then it’ll be repeated on Tuesday or you can watch the whole programme right now here (you must be a UK resident) thanks the the BBC website. It was great to see Jeremy Clarkson taking the pee out… Read more →

It’s Saturday and today I’ve actually got up early and I’m on a very quick Virgin train down to London for the MoDaCo event. It’s already been a hectic morning. I had everything planned with almost military precision. I’d get up, be out the house for about 8.45 and that’d give me more than enough time to get to the… Read more →

Good old Sir Clive Sinclair has obviously recovered from the whole Sinclair C5 problems in 1985 and is coming out with some pretty decent ideas. His Sea Doo device seems to be doing quite plus he’s got some other interesting stuff including some strange power-drive thing for a regular wheelchairs. The original C5 above was probably ahead of its’ time.… Read more →

I’ll try not to make this another rant about Google still being a bit confused. Last night I did another simple search for “coolsmartphone” and this time I got my old Bornsloppy.co.uk website, which is where this site used to reside.. about 4 years ago. Why the heck it’s suddenly started giving this as a high-ranking response I don’t know… Read more →

The Google madness continues. Only yesterday, if I did a search for “coolsmartphone” in Google, I got every other site in the planet apart from our own. Now – for no real reason – Google is showing www.coolsmartphone.co.uk at the top of the list, not www.coolsmartphone.com. I’m really confused now. Things seem to be jumping all over the place and… Read more →

There’s a couple of very interesting stories in the news today, albeit a little weird. First up we have the case of this guy who, for some reason, thought he could get out of a speeding fine by ripping down a 40mph speed limit sign and then attaching it onto a lamppost in the 30mph zone where he was snapped… Read more →

Colin Murray and Edith Bowman are to end their show on Radio 1. Ahh, what a shame, I’m so upset. Wait.. no I’m not! What an irritating pair they are ! Uugggghhhh… They both drive me insane. I’m not quite sure why, they just seem to be hungry for fame or something. Unfortunately there’s some really bad news – they’re… Read more →

I’ve got slightly sidetracked this afternoon testing out Windows Vista, which is .. well.. I’m fighting with it at the moment, put it that way. :) Anyhow, this video crossed my path. I’m not proud of linking to it but heck – I’m old enough to remember when David Hasselhoff used to ride around in KITT – the big black… Read more →

I’ll do a more lengthy blog over the next few days detailing all the wedding stuff. The day itself went better than I ever could’ve hoped for – perfect in every way and my new wife (yay!) looked stunning. Coming back to work, which I did this morning, was a bit of a bump. I turned up very late I… Read more →

With todays’ multi-channel paradise it’s easy for children to watch a wide range of educational and entertaining TV from many channels. CBBC, CBeebies, CITV, the list goes on and on. As for my childhood, I used to watch stuff like “Transformers”, “He-Man” and “The Muppets”. Here’s a classic clip from my favourite character. I think it goes some way to… Read more →

I very rarely post pictures of myself on CoolSmartPhone, if ever really. However, it’s thanks to Carlesberg Export that I’ve suddenly changed my mind. This, my friends, is me on my stag do. No, no and NO – that is not a medallion. It’s a medal. We went carting which, I after a huge quantity of rain, was great fun… Read more →

Planning a wedding is, let me tell you, complicated. The big things are pretty easy to sort – the car, the DJ and things like that. It’s the little things – background music, favours, the drinks and other related items that “seem” small but really matter. To be honest with you my blogs are going to get a bit smaller… Read more →

I’ve been testing out the latest beta version of Internet Explorer 7. Well what can I say about it ? Before I begin there may be …ahem.. “some people” who believe that – as an MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Progessional) I blindy support and praise any Microsoft product going. Not so. I’ve always said it, and I’ll go on saying… Read more →

I’ve got some rather random things today that I thought I’d blog about. Right now everyone seems to be protesting at the University near to where I work. The students at Keele University appear to be blocking traffic in protest at their exam papers not being marked. The reason for this is because the Association of University Teachers (AUT) are… Read more →

Some of you may remember the blinged out wheels we spoke about a while back. These wheels produce any image you feed into it’s clever little memory as you drive along. Now, direct from America, is the next big “bling thing” for your 1.1 Fiesta. Yes, it’s an exhaust “turbine”. Check it out! You spend about 25 quid, stick it… Read more →