Month: April 2006

An unfortunate name..

I’ve found a rather interesting town in Canada that I think you should try and visit. It has a rather … unfortunate name … however, as you can see, it’s a beautiful place. They call this place “Dildo”. Yes, you heard right.. Dildo. This page tells you about the town.. “Every summer Dildo sponsors Dildo Days which is a community… Read more →

Best invention, ever?!

This is simply stupendously ingenious. In fact it’s possibly the greatest invention of our time. Called the “BeerBelly” it sits around your gut and holds a huge quantity of beer in a plastic container. After filling it up you simply drink your favourite beverage through the attached straw. Then you just slip a t-shirt on a BINGO! You’re just another… Read more →

Bullseye is back and it’s fantastic!

After watching a few seconds of the absolutely terrible Saturday evening TV show, “An Evening With Coronation Street” and suffering yet more “Top 50 Best Ever”-something-or-other shows I’ve had enough. No more dance shows. No more flippin’ talent shows, no more reality shows! But wait… I’ve found the replacement. I’ve found a TV show that’s just started on Challenge TV… Read more →

Call the 118118 Team

Seen the Honda advert recently ? The guys from directory enquiries company 118118 have done their own version. In the Honda commercial singers make the noises of a car, from wind-screen wipers to doors closing. You’ve probably seen it on TV recently, but have you seen the 118118 version? Click here to view it :) Links – Honda.co.uk — the118118team.co.uk Read more →

More Petrol Station fun…

We went for a meal last night and I met up with Em straight from work. After the meal she needed to get some fuel, so I followed her to the Esso. A few of the pumps were closed off – I presume because they were empty. To save the embarrassment of driving up, getting out and only then spotting… Read more →

Sky+ is installed!

For those of you who read my previous blog post about getting Sky+ on the cheap, I’m glad to say it’s now all done. The whole thing works completely flawlessly, and I’m a little amazed at how easy it was to install myself. As I mentioned earlier, I’m a tight-wad at heart and I’ll find any way to make something… Read more →

Drunken thoughts..

I went out drinking last night, which is something – I assure you – I rarely do (ahem!) After quite a few beers I got in the taxi which I’d pre-booked. It’s usually the same taxi firm every week so you get chatting to the driver. This week I was just a little bit drunk. We got to talking about… Read more →

The Betterware catalogue

Whilst checking my inbox this morning I found a link to this silicon.com story featuring some hi-tech gadgets from HP boffins. This photo shows the latest prototype of some glasses with an integrated 1.3 Megapixel camera to for taking photos or video. All the data is stored on two 20GB disk drives and is similar to the police head-cams we… Read more →

Sky+ on the cheap – my quest for a new PVR

Here in the UK the multi-channel world arrived many years ago. These days it’s gone far and beyond mental. There’s dozens and dozens and dozens of shopping channels, plus dozens more gaming channels crammed full with talentless presenters doing their best to make some cup or piece of jewellery look like the most amazing and lusted-after object in the world.… Read more →

Sheep Mentality

OK, this has been getting on my nerves for a few days so I’ve given in and I’m going to blog it. My decision to blog this down is two fold really. Firstly, it is part of my journey to and from work every day and secondly at work today something happened which made me question the “sheep” mentality. I’m… Read more →

Wembley problems

We’ve all heard of the numerous problems with the spangly new Wembley Stadium (like the tube station being delayed, sewer problems, beams slipping off etc). This weekend however I had a bit of a brainwave after driving past a huge housing development which has appeared on top of an recently closed mine shaft at Littleton Colliery in Cannock / Huntington.… Read more →