Month: September 2006

Once more I find myself on a plane. I think I’ve actually flown more this year than ever before but I’m by no means a jetsetter. This morning I bumped into Paul from modaco.com at the gate. I’d just been asked by a security guy if I was “First Class or Business”. My reply caused him to guide me away… Read more →

I’ve been doing some more hefty website work this weekend. Unfortunately most of it is utterly boring geeky stuff that most readers won’t be interested in. Moving tables around, shifting PHP, compacting the databases and reducing calls to the MySQL database have been on my hit list this weekend – the objective is to attempt to reduce loading times. I’ve… Read more →

As you may know from my previous blog, Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was in a serious crash earlier this week. He’s now making a recovery and is on a general ward after the accident which occured during filming for the top BBC show in a jet-powered car on an airfield near York. Richard, 36, suffered a brain injury however… Read more →

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond is now improving but remains seriously ill in hospital after crashing during filming of the rather excellent TopGear TV show. He was driving a jet-powered “dragster” in an attempt to break the UK land-speed record at almost 300mph when it swerved violently, flipped over and embedded itself nose-first into the grass next to the runway… Read more →

You may have seen our recent story about the new Orange SPV C700. It’s arriving soon and it’s one of the first 3G Smartphones we’ve seen, however… one thing you should NOT do is Google it.Please, please, PLEASE for the love of all things holy do NOT Google “C700” I just tried a simple Google search for “C700” and ended… Read more →

A few years ago I made the mistake of buying a “desktop replacement”-style laptop. Regular readers will be aware of my Sony PCG-GRX lappy and the problems I had with it. The 16-inch screen and the weight of the thing meant it was probably more at home on a desk than being carried about constantly. In the end it broke… Read more →

I love this clip. Gordon Ramsay is an excellent cook and – without doubt – he never holds back. His UK shows were excellent and he continued the “Hells Kitchen” success in the USA too. This weekend I was flicking through the huge amount of channels and landed on “Hells Kitchen USA” which was on ITV 16+1 or something. I’ve… Read more →

WARNING – This blog post will probably descend into a “Daily Mail” style rant. Sorry about this, I’ve had a bad day. Remember this guy? Yep, I blogged about him a few days back. He decided to take a drive around the local town despite having leg tremors, being partially deaf and only having two fingers on one hand (oh… Read more →

Meet renowned Aboriginal artist Gordon Syron – he’s the guy standing up, not the one in the painting. He paints nice pictures he does. One day he decided, rather foolishly, to put some of his very expensive paintings on his roof rack and go driving. Unsurprisingly both of the paintings, worth $1.5 million (AUS) flew off the car and ended… Read more →

Some people like to have WiFi routers. I certainly do – being able to work all around the house without worrying about wires is ideal. Whether it’s the Orange SPV M3100 on WiFi or my laptop, I can get connected to the internet. My WiFi is secured down. You’ll need a password to get on and only I know what… Read more →

Hmm.. Emily is in Canada tonight so I’m sat at home. The only thing that appears to be on TV is the Robbie Williams Concert from Leeds. Now, I don’t mind Robbie. He’s a good lad and a great entertainer. Some of his songs are real crackers and I’ll not shy away from singing along to them in the car… Read more →

More changes are on the way here at CoolSmartPhone.com. During the last few months traffic has hit an all-time high and we’ve had to increase memory yet again to speed up the server as it was beginning use swap space (that’s where it rips the HD to bits to save temporary stuff when the memory is full). There’s the possibility… Read more →

You’ve got to feel sorry for this guy. This is Craig Moore. One day he was driving along when he got snapped by a speed camera travelling over the speed limit. He’d already got lots of penalty points so, after getting “flashed” by a speed camera, he knew it meant a driving ban. He believed that once the evidence was… Read more →

Meet Charles Greaves. He’s being sentenced for voyeurism after putting a tiny digital web cam into a shampoo bottle and placing it in a bathroom of a mixed hall in the University of Wales. He secretly filmed women taking baths and showers in the hall of residence. Unfortunately though there was a problem. Steam from the shower was causing less… Read more →

It looks like the completion date for the new Wembley Stadium is now slipping into mid-2007. Unfinished work on the retractable roof, problems with drainage, safety and security systems and the installation of the remaining 10,000 seats mean it may possibly slip into 2007. Even after the keys for the 757 million stadium are handed over there’s to be a… Read more →

I got stuck in traffic this morning. This traffic didn’t exist yesterday, or last week, or the week before. It just appeared. I sat in queues of cars with my handbrake on snapping away… Where had this traffic come from ? Well, I’ll tell you. The schools have started again – it’s a new term and there’s 4×4’s travelling for… Read more →

Here’s Omed Aziz. Originally from Iraq he had his sight taken away from him during a bomb blast and is partially deaf. He now lives here in the UK and one day in Wednesdbury his mate – who is banned – decided him to let Omed drive around town in his car. Obviously, being blind, Omed had great difficulty doing… Read more →

In 1999 me and Emily took our first holiday together. We went to New York. It was just before Christmas and we spent pretty much all the money I’d earned contracting. Here’s some of the pictures we took .. A couple of years went by and, well.. we all know what happened. In 2006, as part of our honeymoon, we… Read more →

I mentioned MixAlbum the other day and I’m glad to say that it’s now online and working fine. After logging in I set about mixing some new tunes together – it really does mix extremely well and I’m impressed with how fluid each mix is. Top stuff! Link – MixAlbum.com Read more →

I’m watching “Traffic Cops” at the minute. It’s all about the work of the police who monitor our roads and the people driving on it. During the recent years each series has allowed us to see the cops in action and it also gives the Traffic Cops themselves a chance to talk about their job. This week it’s the turn… Read more →