Month: June 2009

OK, I blogged about this earlier today and I feel it deserves another post. Today “The Pirate Bay” – a well known Torrent site with links to copyrighted material like movies, CD’s and software – got bought out for quite a bit of cash. Many of the users of the website have quite rightly claimed that the owners have “sold… Read more →

New owners of The Pirate Bay are going for a “compensation model” which “satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary. Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it.” http://thepiratebay.org/blog/164 http://www.globalgamingfactory.com Sounds like they sold out for $7.7 million.. Either that or they’re taking the… Read more →

We went shopping on Saturday. We don’t usually do the “big shop” on a Saturday, so I popped along to push the trolley and generally run around the aisles like a nutter with my son. We found parking a problem though, and although it was busy, the parking situation was made worse by people like this. This lady decided to… Read more →

Last Sunday I was merrily flicking around the channels when I spotted that, yet again, Top Gear was on. It’s been on pretty much every Sunday night since the last series ended but they’ve been repeats or “best of” programmes. But.. last week, it was the start of an all-new series. Personally I’d not seen any promo stuff about the… Read more →

Here’s something I’ve been meaning to blog about for sometime now. A few weeks ago it was my birthday. I was 21 yet again. We decided to go out for a meal, but first we went a local fair with my nephew and his friend. After that we decided to go to the Frankie and Benny’s restaurant, which is always… Read more →

I’ve just driven past the Google Maps car. It’s quite interesting to see it in the flesh actually. People walk past it and stare – some don’t quite know what to make of it, others jump up and down to try and become famous. Driving past it this morning reminded me about something I wanted to blog a couple of… Read more →

OK. I’ve just watched this on the SciFi channel. Woaha. Epic fail. That is all. Read more →

This advert has just been on one of the gerzillions of music channels. Is it just me or is this whole thing just….plain…. wrong ? The idea, you’re having a baby. Great. Congratulations. Now, anyone expecting a baby will no doubt be thinking of a name. It’s only natural. You may buy a book with some names in, perhaps flick… Read more →

Here’s a funny news story regarding the new iPhone launch Shh… you ain’t seen me. Right? ;) Read more →

Seriously. Another bunch of “soon to be minor celebs for a few days then vanish into obscurity, possibly appearing on follow-up shows and the odd few seconds in those late-night countdown-style TV programmes”. All with personalities guaranteed to annoy each other. Time to turn it off now. This is getting dull no? Read more →

OK, I feel a little late to the party here, but I was wondering earlier why I’ve started seeing more and more coins with off-centre designs. I couldn’t work it out and assumed it was just some sort of funky new design. British readers may have seen strange new designs appearing on 1 and 2 coins plus some strange patterns… Read more →

I’m sorry love. You’re probably doing a great job for the community and I appreciate someone stuffing your flyer through my door for the local elections tomorrow, but .. a) I think it’ll be the lowest ever turn-out for an election due to most MP’s robbing the hard-working British public blind with insane expenses claims. b) Come on, you COULD… Read more →

Wanna try the all-new search (and more) solution from Microsoft? Head on over to bing.com and you’ll find (another) Microsoft answer to the Google monster. Our verdict? So far it seems to be giving slightly older responses, with our stories from last week or before popping up but nothing newer. It does however look a lot more promising than live.com,… Read more →

Unfunny crap. Sorry guys, but I gave this a good 10 minutes after watching the whole “Britains Got Talent” thing and it’s doomed to be yet another failed ITV1 stab at comedy. I’ll lay money on this being shovelled into a later time-slot and quickly dropped. Get the guy who wrote Benidorm to do a comedy show instead. Link –… Read more →