Month: January 2007

Ugghh.. isn’t it good to come home ? Bills, bills, bills and straight back into the stress. :) Perhaps this will fix it ? :) Read more →

We landed yesterday and due to the time difference I woke up at 3AM and ended up downloading the holiday photos this morning. This is one I snapped on the flight home. We were only about an hour or so from landing and breakfast was served. It arrived in a fairly sizeable cardboard box with this image on the front.… Read more →

This morning we were sat around the pool once more soaking up the last bit of sun before boarding our flight home. Both of us had our eyes closed trying to get a nap when suddenly a voice bellowed out.. “Say, where’dya get your Coke Light?” Presuming it was someone talking to a friend in the pool we ignored the… Read more →

You may remember the illegal cycling we did the other day. Here’s a pic I took as Emily peddled off in front of me. This morning it was a bit cloudy, so we decided to grab the bikes again and do some more sight-seeing. When we turned up again at the bike place there was a different guy in control…… Read more →

It’s all too easy to be critical of other nationalities when on holiday. I’ve already blogged about this earlier, and no doubt people will have their own opinions of German, French and other nationalities when on holiday in Spain or where-ever. Last night though I was ashamed to call myself British, and I’ll tell you why.. We went to one… Read more →

I’ve got just a short blog post here. Top Gear is coming back this SUNDAY at 8pm. If you do miss it, the repeat is on Wednesday at 7pm. This is possibly THE best show of any kind in the planet, so tune in! Read more →

Something else I wanted to mention in my previous post was our stop at Starbucks. Emily is a coffee fanatic, and it doesn’t seem to matter where we are in the world – she’ll sniff out a coffee house from about 10 miles away. Back home her favourite place is Costa Coffee because (and I quote), “It’s stronger so you… Read more →

I’ve got to make this a quick blog post. The reason is because my wife, and I still find it weird saying “wife” after saying “girlfriend” for so many years, is not into the techy stuff in any way. She quite rightly tells me to stop fiddling with this Orange SPV M3100 whilst we’re on holiday. I tell her that… Read more →

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while. I’ve seen the same thing in various hotels and I’m stumped… Just why do they put a phone in the toilet? It’s not like it’s next to the shower – it’s always at a certain height next to the toilet. I’ll admit to using it once, when we first got… Read more →

So today we went for our massage. The day started off badly, with me waking up to a large buzzing noise in my right ear. It was a mosquito.. they don’t normally bite me, but they seem to be having a feast at the moment. I shot up like a bolt and started to make mad slapping movements in the… Read more →

Why the heck does bad stuff always happen at the most inappropriate time? This week the site broke, and it broke big style. Why the hell did that have to happen when I’m on holiday eh? The backup I had didn’t work, so I fixed it and restored from that. Did that work? Nope, it decided to stick forum posts… Read more →

Hi guys! Don’t worry, Fun Time Friday will return. Right now we’re still on holiday (read more about it in my blog) so I’ve got stacks of videos all ready to go when we return on January 30th. Don’t worry though, thanks to a free internet connection and my SPV M3100 I’m actually updating the site whilst sat on the… Read more →

We’ve been here in Cancun for 5 days now. There’s a lot of American people here, all of whom look extremely puzzled if we talk to them in restaurants or at the bar. A few venture on to ask that question.. “Say, where are you from?” .. I hate someone asking us this. I could be anywhere else in the… Read more →

So here I am, sat by the pool. I’ve already read the book I’ve brought with me (Peter Kay, The Sound of Laughter). I’d almost finished it before we actually got here, however there never seems to be enough time back home to read books. It’s actually only the third or fourth proper book I’ve read. When I say “proper”… Read more →

I love planes. Nowhere else in the world can I get away with ordering a Kronenbourg at 9 o’clock in the moning. Not, at least, with Emily sat next to me. She’s on coffee whilst I’m on lager. Top stuff. There is, of course, a bad side to air travel… and it’s usually the people you have to share the… Read more →

It’s perhaps time to let you all in on a secret. It’s nothing too major – on Monday we’ll be off on holiday for two weeks. It’s not really been a cold winter so far (hello global warming), but the dark days and even darker nights here in old Endland have taken their toll on us so we’re off to… Read more →

Welcome to our new home!! :) If you’re reading this then you’re visiting our new server – an AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 3800 server with more memory, more speed and more capacity than ever before. CoolSmartPhone.com is now in it’s fifth year, and as each month passes we receive yet more hits and visitors to the site. This is… Read more →

Everyone probably has something that gets on their nerves. A couple of things do it for me, one of which I had this morning. I held a door open for someone. This was for quite a while too – they strolled down the corridor, didn’t even acknowledge me and then strolled straight through. Oooohhh that gets on my nerves when… Read more →

Yesterday I installed Windows Vista Ultimate. It’s the final version, the full thing… I’ve spent many months moaning about how earlier versions were too over-cautious and kept driving me mad with prompts saying… “Do you want to run this?” ..and.. “Seriously, are you sure, because this could install something y’know” .. it nearly drove me insane. However, I decided to… Read more →

Everything on TV at the moment is absolutely arse, Soapstar Superstar on ITV1 is yet another example. It’s more of the same bilge following the same crappy recipe as many other TV shows. On Channel 4 they’ve got some Z-rated celebrities (except Face Man from the A-Team, he’s DA MAIN MAN!), on BBC1 they’re doing some crappy karaoke contest and,… Read more →

Here’s more shots of the Lexus IS-F, from the BBC Top Gear magazine. It’s been ddeveloped at the Fuji Speedway and they’ve made modifications to the traction control system which will allow more aggresive driving before the computers kick in to stop you spinning around and hitting a tree. Read more →

Meet my new car, the Lexus IS-F. OK, so maybe I lied. I can’t afford this but someday, hopefully, when they’ve come down in price I’ll get one. Unveiled just minutes ago at the Detroit Motor Show this is set to go head-to-head with BMW’s M3 and Audi’s RS4. It’s got a whopping 5 litre V8 engine developing more than… Read more →