Month: May 2005

Kill the frog – Campaign Update 2

We hate the Frog. He’s at number 1 and it’s all thanks to some git at Jamster (the ringtone gits) stealing some sound-sample from the internet and adding some graphics. Now it looks like he’s planning to make moves on number 10…. If you’ve in HMV or Virgin and you see someone reaching for the CD Single of Axel F… Read more →

Cheap Sky+ Alternative

Being the tight-wad I am, I’ve decided (still) not to get Sky+. We’ve got Sky TV at home. It’s all very good, but I’m not heavily into sports and I rarely get time to watch a movie. Because of this we don’t have the “full” package but just the “Sky Family” package at about 19 quid a month. Sky get… Read more →

Come on, you know you want to..

As I write there are 987 people browsing CoolSmartPhone.com. That’s one big fat figure. Now, way back in December you may have noticed that I was asking you guys to splash the cash a bit to help out with the site. It costs roughly 75 quid a month to host an entire dedicated server for this monster, then there’s the… Read more →

Free Council house anyone?

Ohhh dear dear dear… Welcome to the world little T-Jay, Amani and Lita. Your mothers are all about 14 years old and are living together in a shared council house rent-free… and they’re all sisters…. and the “mother” of these three teenagers says… “I don’t care what people say about me.” “I blame the schools – sex education for young… Read more →

Robotic cats and another ringtone parody

What the hell ? We’ve seen the Aibo dog previously, but now there’s these freaky-weird robotic cats. The robotic pussy comes courtesy of Necoro…. Weird and wrong…. But I guess they won’t rip up your sofa… View the video here (mov file, needs Quicktime) More info – necoro.com While I’m here, there’s yet another classic sweary sweary parody of the… Read more →

Campaign Update – Stop the slapping

After stories regarding the “Happy Slapping” craze amongst teenagers (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4539317.stm) it appears that websites like Chavscum.co.uk are fighting back. They’ve come up with a new t-shirt, however some people thought that it didn’t quite get the point across, so this one is now ready to order (a bit of swearing below)….. just to be on the safe side. Read more →

Campaign Update – Kill the frog!

We hate “the frog”, we hate everything to do with this annoying toss. It’s therefore great to see this news story which states that mainstream TV-Channel ITV is “reviewing” the Jamster campaign after a flood of complaints have come in. Complaints were originally made to the Advertising Standards Authority – however they are unable to act, as they only control… Read more →

Netscape 8 is out – another browser to play with

I’ve just been trying out Netscape 8. Very strange. It’s got tabbed browsing, it’s got RSS integration and more. However, the “rendering engine” can either be set to “Internet Explorer Rendering (default)” or “Firefox Rendering”. I’m confused. What is this ? IE with a different front end ? Firefox with a different front end ? I like the RSS integration,… Read more →

Crazy Frog – Please go away now, your time is up

Before I begin, I’d just like to say – in response to this story – he was “familiarising himself” ????!?!?! At 159mph ??!?!?! Ahh anyway.. That damned frog! AGH! It’s ruined MTV, MTV Dance, MTV Base and all the other music channels.. now it’s on a quest to ruin the half-decent channels of TV-land. However, we have the valiant graphic… Read more →

Hey! Postie!

Good to see that the Royal Mail have announced record profits of 537m. They’ve now got the best record of deliveries in a decade, with less letters lost now than before. I wonder though – why the FRIG can’t they get our post through the door before noon ?! We used to get our post before I went to work… Read more →

M6 Toll – how to get less customers

Before I start my rant, here’s a picture of how Google used to operate in the 1950’s… :) I had a letter today from the guys at the M6 Toll. It seems that they’re going to ramp up their prices yet again on June 14th 2005. Here’s the sheet with the new prices…. This comes after traffic has dropped on… Read more →

This really, really annoys the hell out of me!

It’s not often I get totally and utterly peed off with stuff. Generally I’m an easy going chap, happy with the world and everything in it. However, sometimes I can get extremely annoyed… today is one of those days… I firmly believe that somewhere in the world, perhaps in a little hole buried deep in StupidVille, there’s a big bunch… Read more →

You dirty old man! :)

If you’re in the UK you may have seen this bird on the right (sorry, I shouldn’t say “bird” – I should say “female TV presenter”) on a TV Programme called “Property Ladder”. I got this funny animation of her (right) in an email today. Shortly after I got another email, also about a femal TV presenter. I’m going to… Read more →

Clean your rim

Let me start by quoting a recent Harpic Bleach advert… “Keep your toilet fresh and stop nasty surprises nipping up to the rim….” (Shot of posh woman lifting seat) “…like the mother-in-law..” So remember that people – Harpic Bleach keeps your mother-in-law away from your rim… (COUGH!) This weekend I went back to the hair-dressers / barbers – you know… Read more →

Round up! Round up! Get yarrr funny T-Shirts!

It’s not often that I shamlessly plug a company on this site…unless.. a) I’m involved in it. b) I’m getting some money for it. (Woah is me with my empty donations bucket!) c) I’m getting some semi-naked female dancing in front of me for several hours. But I’m gonna break the mould just this once, ‘cus I like this shop… Read more →