Month: January 2012

Another day, another FTTC router.

You may have read several items here about my adventures with Fibre To The Cabinet, aka FTTC. It’s sold by BT Retail as Infinity. I’ve had the VDSL modem replaced once already, but it seems that it still generated enough heat to cook an egg. Now BT have contracted out an company called “Kelly” to replace some 800,000 sweaty Huawei… Read more →

So, errr.. am I going mad here or?

Quidco sent me a mail saying that I could get Virgin Broadband for £5 a month for 3 months. Not bad.. Just £5 for the first three months. Sounds like a deal, and you get a whacking cashback… I think I’ll check it out, so .. just a few clicks onto the Virgin Media site and… am I missing something… Read more →

Spending time with your children

For anyone with kids, or those about to have children, I’ve got some important advice. Our son is three. For Christmas he had stacks of toys and we’re lucky enough to have a nice home with a garden for him to play in. I work, a lot. I write for Coolsmartphone and have a full-time job too. One of the… Read more →

Concordia disaster.. Can I just point something out?

The Captain of the vessel, Francesco Schettino was on a life boat talking to the lifeguard when the ship was sinking. This BBC news story details the conversation that happened. Here’s the key points for me.. OK. The Captain is on the lifeboat. He shouldn’t be there really, because there’s people still on the ship. But hey, that’s what he’s… Read more →

Transformers movies, combined..

Transformers got a bit mental last time I watched it. I can’t remember which one it was, but there were lots of explosions in a desert. Anyhoo, someone got drunk and edited all of the films together so you can watch the movies really quickly. Mega. Read more →

Win your shopping!

Morrisons are giving away the cost of shopping to lucky customers. The checkout lady couldn’t wait to tell me all about out when I was in the shop today… OK, here’s your special barcode. After 8AM tomorrow you can go online and see of you’re a winner. If you won, we’ll pay for todays shopping. I looked down at my… Read more →