Month: February 2007

I couple of thoughts from this weekend. The first comes from something I saw on Saturday – it was a guy on some step-ladders at the local Texaco petrol station. He was increasing the price of the fuel on that sign by the road. As I sat by the traffic lights he increased the price from 86.9p to 88.9p. Today… Read more →

So you’re a police officer, you’re chasing a speeding motorist and you’re doing about 120mph. You’re on a motorway and it’s empty. Surely nothing can go wrong …… can it? Well, unfortunately it did for this traffic cop… and it wasn’t the first time either… If you can’t see the video above, click here for the direct link. Read more →

You’ve gotta love Princess Juliana Airport. Located in St Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. They’ve got a small runway .. in fact, it’s really small here it is on Google maps. It’s infamous short landing strip and beaches at either end mean that local sun-bathers can get blown off the beach by jet engines and planes approach very low. The airport website… Read more →

Like many people we have money tied up on a credit card. The low or 0% interest rates soon run out and you find yourself searching for a new card with a better interest rate. So I did a bit of searching on Yahoo finance and switched to Abbey. I entered the previous card details to do a balance transfer… Read more →

Top Gear on BBC2 is going from strength to strength and is probably worth the licence fee alone right now. Here’s another YouTubey from this weeks episode. Just in case you missed it.. Top Gear decided to try and convert a Robin Reliant….into a Space Shuttle. Every boffin they approached said it would be impossible, but in the end the… Read more →

The rinky-dink panther, rinky-dink panther. Does anyone remember this TV show when they were younger? The song at the start sticks in my head and after a bit of Googling I found the lyrics…… “Think of all the animals you’ve ever heard about like rhinoc’ruses and tigers cats and mink There are lots of funny animals in all this world… Read more →

Yet another sexy dance tune with equally sexy dancers.. Clean those trumpets girls ! Go on ! :) This will probably be removed from YouTube fairly soon now that they’re tightening up on the copyrighted material, so watch while you can ! :) (By the way, it’s called “Destination Calabria / Destination Unknown” by Alex Gaudino Ft Crystal Waters and… Read more →

Oh dear, a rather easy work-around for getting a full version of Vista from scratch, while only paying the cost of an upgrade for an earlier version of Windows. It’s all explained here after a fellow MVP found out how to do it. Read more →

Blimey, this certainly didn’t take long. There’s nothing wrong with eating the Bernard Matthews turkeys, it’s still causing people to give them a miss… Read more →

What rubbish couple of days I’ve had. Yesterday morning I actually left home early and was on my way up the M6 when the traffic slowed and then stopped. I figured it was a shunt and we’d be on our way soon enough, however 20 minutes later we’d still not moved. After a number of minutes staring at brake-lights I… Read more →

Remember how I had to abandon the car the other day? Well, here’s a picture of the hill that beat me. I took this the next day – we walked back to get it, which was made easier than my walk the previous day in the snow. Blinkin’ rear-wheel drive car .. lesson for today ? Put some weight in… Read more →

How good was Top Gear last night ? The guys went to America to buy a car for $1000 and then embark on an epic road trip only to find some very angry locals along the way. The reason ? Well, they decided to paint their cars with graffiti which stated “Hilary for President” and “Country and Western is Rubbish”.… Read more →

Remember this guy? Well, he’s now apologised for his opinions. Check out this video or view it below.. Read more →

I’ve been up since 5AM because Emily got called out. At around 5.30 this morning I was outside scooping snow of her car and warming it up. After you’ve been outside at that time in such cold temperatures you tend to wake up, so when Emily went off to work I couldn’t get back to sleep. Bugger. But worse was… Read more →

Here’s a guy who you don’t want at the controls on your next flight to Ibiza. A pensioner landing his plane recently mistook a road for the runway. The 68-year-old un-named man was a very experienced private pilot who had more than 1000 hours flying time. The Air Accidents Investigation reported…. “When close to touchdown, the pilot noticed that the… Read more →

This guy is doing a great job to build US and UK relations isn’t he? EDIT – If you can’t see the video below click here. Read more →

I’ve got a tip for you lot. In fact, it’s a tip that I should probably give myself. What is it ? Well, never buy a good car. Buy a banger, an old run-around, but never buy a good car. The reason ? Servicing and repair work costs a fortune. As you may know I’ve got a Lexus. It’s already… Read more →

OK, I’ve been talking about this for a while now so I thought I’d show you. This is Windows Vista.. …or is it ? Actually it’s not. This is my current Windows XP desktop. The magic that creates this very Vista-esque desktop is… 1 – Windows Blinds, you have to pay for this but there is other free software and… Read more →

Our nephew decided last night that he wanted to stop at our house. It was a bit of a surprise because he never normally wants to sleep anywhere except in his own bed. We put him to sleep and then watched that Eddie Murphy film on BBC1 later and ended up getting to bed around 1.45am. This perhaps was not… Read more →

What happened there then ? Two days offline. No updates from me and no news stories. Sheesh. Well, a dose of “real life” caused this unfortunately. I still have a “real” job and Friday was a right royal pain in the arse. Then, when I got back, I had to finish re-installing Windows XP on this laptop (which was designed… Read more →