Month: December 2006

Ugh! The post Christmas weirdness continues. Emily wanted to go shopping but it was the last possible thing I wanted to do. Shops rammed full of people, cars fighting for spaces, people grabbing items all over the place? No way. Not for me. After my experience last year I didn’t fancy going into another shop regardless of the prices. Next… Read more →

What the flying CHUFF is going on with TV at the moment?! I remember, when I was a kid, looking forward to the Christmas break for all the Christmas specials, all the big movies and the comedy shows. What did we get this year? Fup all. That’s what we got. I’ve got some time off at the minute and every… Read more →

I like allofmp3.com. It lets you get full, proper MP3 files legally (well, according to Russian law). Most music download sites out there will strap the music down so that they can only be played on one device or one computer. It’s highly annoying, as I found out recently to my cost. I bought loads of tracks from Napster and… Read more →

You’ve already seen a couple of blog posts here regarding the Christmas Ambulance. A local charity in my home town of Burntwood have had an old ambulance donated to them and they’re currently touring the area in it. This alone may seem strange enough, but it gets even weirder when you see the thing in the flesh. I saw it… Read more →

It seems that pretty much everybody in the UK is trying to get their car washed today. It’s just two days to Christmas and everyone wants their car to be clean for Christmas Day when their parents or friends see them …. and their car.. I’m actually typing this blog whilst sat in the queue for the car wash. I… Read more →

As you may or may not know, Katie Price and her husband Peter Andre have just released a truely painful new album called “A Whole New World“. The proceeds from this will, according to the information I have, go to good causes. It’s for this reason alone that the album appears to be selling (seriously, who is going to buy… Read more →

No doubt most of you are preparing to drink copious amounts of alcohol at various Christmas parties whilst embarassing yourself by getting a little too friendly with the receptionist. Here at CoolSmartPhone towers the level of work is already deteriorating so now is probably the best time to thank you lot for sticking with us this year and making 2006… Read more →

The ultimate “bloke film”.. Oh yes people… it’s coming back… Yippee Kiiyay Mother Hubbard… (The picture on the right has nothing to do with this by the way, I just thought it was funny) ;) Read more →

Here’s a video of a plane landing without any landing gear. To make matters worse it’s a “prop” plane so, as it heads towards the runway you’re thinking what a terrible mess those propellors are going to make as they spin around.. Except… This has to be possibly the most relaxed landings I’ve ever seen. I especially like the way… Read more →

Honestly, people are insane at this time of year. Mostly it’s when they’re driving – last night I was coming up to a roundabout in the fog when, out of no-where, some brake lights appeared in front of me. The car then moved onto the roundabout, indicating right, then turned left, almost into me. It was then I realised that… Read more →

Wait a minute.. this guy falls, bumps his head, then “because of his head injury” he now shags anything that moves (obviously annoying his wife slightly) .. and because of this “illness” he gets… 3.1 Million compensation?!?!?!? Link – BBC News Read more →

I’m not a big fan of all this X Factor stuff however I did catch the final tonight. What’s good about this programme is the first part, where they tour the UK for “the next big thing”. Most are dire, some laughably so. Tonight they brought back some of the worst to do a song and, although it was bad… Read more →

Oh boy oh boy oh boy. It’s Christmas.. yes, yes it’s Christmas!! Anyone who knows me well enough will know that I do like a bit of Gemma Atkinson. She used to be in Hollyoaks and it certainly made my Sunday mornings a LOT more bearable .. however she’s since moved on and has had her already-ample assets inflated even… Read more →

Unless you’ve been living under a very large rock on the wrong side of the moon recently you’ll be aware that next Monday is Christmas Day. To celebrate there will no doubt be many thousands of people buying trees and decorating them this weekend. But wait – how about your own beer tree?! Sure, this isn’t strictly beer – the… Read more →

Agh! Winter, I hate it. Why? Well, all this week I’ve found myself waking up in the middle of the night – I lie there in bed tired and groggy all ready to roll over and go back to sleep when….. …you glance across at the alarm clock… …no, it’s not 3AM… …it’s 7.15…. …and it’s time to get up….… Read more →

It’s the run up to Christmas. I’m running around doing a million different things and yet I feel as if I’m not achieving much. The CoolSmartPhone cat – our cat – is costing hundreds per week in vet bills, we’re busy buying and wrapping presents, writing cards, putting lights and a Christmas tree up, working on the site, working at… Read more →

Woaha! Anyone remember these? Yup, they’re pound notes. I’ve actually purchased these from ebay.co.uk for a “secret santa” thing. We’re restricted to just a pound so I figured it was cool to eerrr…. double it….) :) Read more →

After a weekend of Christmas shopping I figured I’d got off pretty lightly. We’d gone to Birmingham and around the Bullring – Selfridges, Debenhams, Starbucks, Comet, Costa.. not in any particular order. So when I’m feeling that I haven’t spent too much, why does the petrol station take all my money away instead? Bugger.. :( Read more →

Today someone attempted to hack us. They displayed a rather jolly fellow and some text which mucked around with the layout of this page. The person who did this is on 87.238.209.101, which an the IP address belonging to an ISP in Kosovo. The picture and website address is hosted at a Russian domain and the IP above resolves to… Read more →

You may remember me talking about the Christmas ambulance. Well, unfortunately there’s been a bit of rather unfortunate news. It’s broke… Luckily for Santa there was someone available to fix the blacked-out ambulance that he’s been driving around out local town in of late. Phew! Santa can go on with his rounds as he meets local children in the area. Read more →

OK, I’m stuck. It’s Christmas and I need help. I know I’m slightly abusing my position here but I’m a tad desperate. I need to get one of these – a Nintendo DS in pink, yes pink. At the moment here in the UK they’re like rocking horse poo – I just can’t get one anywhere and with just a… Read more →

I’m having another busy week so it’s time to do a quick brain fart in the form of a blog post. Bobby Wallace (he of SmartPhoneCinema.co.uk sent me a news story on the email. It’s all about this news story describing how some thieves took a garage apart brick by brick – removing some 200 bricks – in order to… Read more →