Month: August 2007

Oohh, here’s a good reason why eBay listings should be typed out carefully. If only he’d added that extra “P” he could be sitting on half a million bucks right now. Shame… :) Here’s the first eBay link for some beer brewed in 1852 – note this missing “P” in “Allsops” – it should be “Allsopps”, which would’ve attracted more… Read more →

I popped into a bakery called “Cooks” yesterday for some lunch. Now, this in itself seems like a contradiction in terms. However, their slogan seems to be “Real Coffee”. I snapped this photo and uploaded it Flickr gallery from my phone (by the way, it’s really easy to do that, just get yourself a gallery, then email the photos from… Read more →

Wehay !! If you’ve been reading the grief I’ve had with moving house and having no phone line, then you’ll no doubt be up to speed with my groaning about the phone company. To sum up, we moved house, the phone company (OneTel) messed everything up and we ended up waiting a full month to get a phone line turned… Read more →

I’ve got to give huge credit to the advertising guy who thought this one up. 5000 worth of 10 and 20 notes got dropped around the streets of London with these green stickers on (which you could remove, obviously). Did they really do this though? I know what I’d do if I was asked to dump 5000 in the streets…… Read more →

Well that didn’t take long did it? After the iPhone / AT&T activation system got hacked and bypassed, now the iPhone SIM lock has been beaten too. Bye bye AT&T, it was nice knowing you. No wires, no soldering, just a quick painless bit of software to allow the AT&T iPhone to leave the USA. If you’re outside America and… Read more →

Best rally video….ever. No, scratch that… Best YouTube video… ever… No, scratch that… Best video ever. This is Ari Vatanen flinging his Peugeot up Pikes Peak. Believe me, you do NOT want to get into trouble on this course otherwise you’ll… errr.. slide off that little drop on the side of the road.. I love the bug splat and the… Read more →

There’s good adverts and then there’s bad adverts. I’d like to show you a couple that I’ve found recently because, when I do get to sit my arse on the sofa after doing DIY, I only seem to get adverts on the TV. First up is one of my faves, the edge.co.uk advert. It’s almost like a normal drive to… Read more →

some Chinese couple have decided to name their child “@” … I guess that would make their email address @@chineseisp.com ? Link – Syndney Morning Herald Read more →

I absolutely love the Weebls Stuff – the cartoons are excellent (Magical Trevor especially). Here’s the “Blimp” cartoon. …. Excellent. You’ll be singing along in minutes.. :) Read more →

OK guys, prepare for a rant of quite epic proportions. We’ve moved house recently, as you’ll probably know. We didn’t move far, so we requested to get our number moved to the new address. Wind back the clock a few months – I received a call from a nice lady from a company called TalkTalk Onetel. She offered to reduce… Read more →

Today I received a spam email from a company called PIDPlates. They do that 3D lettering that matches the manufacturer / model name on the rear of your car. You can have anything on the back, including abusive messages like “Get off my backside you spanner!” and more. It’s about 38 with another 6 postage to get one, plus you… Read more →

The Chery Amulet is a top-selling Chinese car in Russia. It’s a popular vehicle and can be seen around most of Russia. Now, top car magazine AutoReview did a Euro-NCAP (New Car Assessment Programme) test on it. Chery officials were present during the Amulet crash test as the car was driven at 40 mph into a solid barrier. The left… Read more →

This is a Morrisons Miles voucher. It’s part of a loyalty scheme to get you buying petrol and then spending in the Morrisons. The idea is that you fill up, swipe your special loyalty card and add up “miles”. When you get to a certain level of miles you get one of these – a 5 voucher. I usually fill… Read more →

So, you’ve got “up to 8Mbps” broadband right ? Err… Well, no … you don’t actually. Even when advertised as up to 8Mbps you’ll usually find that your broadband actually never reaches anywhere near that. A survey by consumer watchdog “Which?” reveals that on average you’ll only get 2.7Mbps from your “up to” 8Mbps connection. 300 people were surveyed and,… Read more →

The Bugatti Veyron. It goes like the clappers and if you own one, you’ve obviously got a serious amount of money. This isn’t a car you’re going to see cruising around McDonalds any time soon, believe me. However, if you’re a Russian oil baron and you’ve got millions washing around in your bank account then there’s times when a standard… Read more →

Well, here we are in our new home. Luckily, I do have an internet connection, despite an almost two week wait to switch our phone line. How? Well, I have a very nice new neighbour with a wide open internet connection to thank. ;) Currently I’m busy putting curtain poles up and trying desperately to reconstruct wardrobes, beds and other… Read more →