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What an absolutely lovely sunny spring day it was here in the UK today. It was around 18-20 degrees C and people were enjoying a day in the sunshine. People were doing typical British things that always happen when the sun is out – cleaning their cars, mowing the lawn or cleaning their windows. Anything in fact that’d get them… Read more →

Early this morning when I was tucked up in bed we had a fairly chunky upgrade to the CoolSmartPhone.com dedicated server. This basically means a whole lot more speed for you guys. We’ve added more capacity to the site so that – at peak times (around 4PM-10PM UK) – the site runs more smoothly. It’s basically like lying on your… Read more →

It seems like ages since I last did a mindless blog post, so just to keep all you nutters happy that read this, here’s my latest ramblings :) First up, I just wanna thank you all for sticking on the site while I was off-line for almost 2 weeks. I thought everyone would just go, “Ahh balls, he ain’t updated… Read more →

Hiya guys ! Just a quick note to say that I’m now back in the UK and I’m busy catching up with all the events of the past two weeks. I’ve also got a fair few-hundred emails to read, so bear with me while I get that sorted. While I’ve been away I haven’t been totally lazy .. well, ok..… Read more →

Next week, on Tuesday, I’ll be off on yet another holiday. Now, before you all start with comments like… “Hey, you have more holidays than the morning DJ I listen to on the radio” … yeah, yeah – I know! :) It’ll mean that I’ll probably be off-line for 10 whole days. I’m going to try and either rig something… Read more →

Before I start, I couldn’t think of a picture for this blog, so I found this fox-hunting thing on B3ta.com. I’ll try not to push my opinions about the fox hunting debate on anyone, although I will say that – a few months ago when protestors would stand by the huntsmen with signs saying, “Ban fox hunting” or “Stop the… Read more →

You may have heard us mention District FM before. It’s a fantastically mental drum ‘n bass station based in the Midlands (UK). Well, it seems that they like text messages and they’ll read pretty much anything out. So…. we sent them a text message, and this is the result… Here’s the WAV Version and here’s the WMV version. Hey, download… Read more →

Why ? Why do I feel better ? I’ll tell you, ‘cus there’s many reasons. Firstly, my darling, my “other half”, my gorgeous fianc Read more →

Why ? Why do I feel better ? I’ll tell you, ‘cus there’s many reasons. Firstly, my darling, my “other half”, my gorgeous fianc Read more →

Micheal Jackson.. that’s all I’m gonna say. Actually, that’s a lie. I’m gonna say a lot more, because it was Jacko who kick-started these last couple of crappy days, which have totally ar*ed me off. Now, I’m not a huge fan of Mr Jackson. Sure, a few of his songs may have me tapping my foot if I’m force-fed them… Read more →

I’ve grown pretty accustomed to people sending me weird stuff on email, but this is the icing on the cake. Now, as you may all know, my name is Leigh – full name Leigh Geary. I’m a bloke, but a lot of girls seem to have a first name of “Leigh” too. Confusing yes, but I’ve seen girls called “Lee”… Read more →

Another blog so soon? Yes, ‘cus today quite a bit happenend outside the world of mobile phones. Firstly, we had the announcement that Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are to marry. Now .. I’m not going to say much about this.. however, I think this screenshot from Sky News was quite funny.. Look at that face! :) Now… I don’t… Read more →

Remember Magical Trevor? Ahhh.. you must remember it. Just one quick look at this cartoon will leave you singing, “Everyone loves Magical Trevor, because the tricks that he does are ever so clever”, for hours after… Well, that was a bit “last year” .. I mean, where were you ? :) Actually.. while I’m here, I’ve lost track of the… Read more →

What the stuff is going on with the world ? One night last week, when I wasn’t really paying attention to the TV, a brightly coloured advert popped up. All I remembered about it at the time was that there were hundreds of bottles of some bright purple cleaning fluid and a guy repeatedly saying, “Cillet BANG! Cillet BANG! Cillet… Read more →

What the stuff is going on with the world ? One night last week, when I wasn’t really paying attention to the TV, a brightly coloured advert popped up. All I remembered about it at the time was that there were hundreds of bottles of some bright purple cleaning fluid and a guy repeatedly saying, “Cillet BANG! Cillet BANG! Cillet… Read more →

Living where I do – near the West Midlands (UK) there’s always been quite a few pirate radio stations. They tend to pop up, then vanish again a bit later after the Department of Trade and Industry has found out where they are and jumped on them from a great height. One, however – appears to be doing really well… Read more →

A severe bit of undercalculating (is that even a word?) means that we may possibly be moving the site yet again very soon. I’m looking at an even bigger server, with even more bells and even more whistles. The main reason is bandwidth, which is going from “oofff, that’s a lot” to “blimey, that’s completely crazy”. Downloads are to blame… Read more →

Upgrading the site didn’t quite go as expected this week. The first problem was moving the database, which was easy enough. The second was upgrading the database to the new “improved” format. This didn’t go too well. The automated upgrade script dumped some of the data, removed some fields and then threw out a whole load of errors. Once I’d… Read more →

I love the B3ta.com website, it’s nuts. It’s a big forum where graphic artists post their creations – mostly tweaked photos and news images – with hilarious results. Now, every Friday they have a “Friday newsletter”. I only got mine today, but it’s a doosey.. Check out these links. I was so impressed by the eSure video that I converted… Read more →

As promised, following this and then this earlier post, I’m now publishing photos of my poorly motor. I took all of these shots with my Orange SPV C500, so if nothing else it’s a good example of the quality you can get on a dark winters day. It’s now definitely an insurance write-off, so today I went to pay my… Read more →

I’m gutted. As you may know, I skidded on some black ice on Boxing Day. Even the police (who attended) told me that the council hadn’t gritted and there’s nothing I could’ve done. Unfortunately for me the car hit a tree stump, skidding on top of it and buckling the bottom of my passenger door and underneath the car. Not… Read more →

I’m gutted. As you may know, I skidded on some black ice on Boxing Day. Even the police (who attended) told me that the council hadn’t gritted and there’s nothing I could’ve done. Unfortunately for me the car hit a tree stump, skidding on top of it and buckling the bottom of my passenger door and underneath the car. Not… Read more →