Month: July 2012

The toilet phone

I’ve mentioned this before but it continues to baffle me. Yet again someone came into the toilets to work, went into a cubicle and used his phone. This time was even worse because, as I was washing my hands, he proceeded to make a phone call. What was said I’m not entirely sure, but I had fun with the hand-dryer… Read more →

Dreams, just what do they mean?

My dreams are a little weird. My wife sometimes remembers hers and they’re usually fairly self-explanatory and related to the events in her life. Mine, however, are just completely strange. A few weeks ago I had a pretty strange one. In it, I came downstairs to find Lady Gaga fitting us a new kitchen. She seemed to be having trouble… Read more →

Get some stickers for those bad parkers

There’s a website which shows off all those people who park really, really badly. Y’know – those lazy people that park in disabled spots, or those who park badly in parent and child spots. Anyway. This site is called YouParkLikeAC***.com. There’s various shots of terrible parking and they’re on that Twitter thing too. Now there’s stickers too, so if taking… Read more →

This is how I learned to code

Woah. This is how I started coding. Buying magazines, reading the huge lists of code and transposing these long lines of code onto my Spectrum 48K… ahhh, those were the days. Now, now you can re-create all that by trying it out here !! Read more →

Weird summer music tracks

We’ve just been bouncing around on the trampoline and had a selection of tunes on in perhaps our first real day of summer this year. The selection of tracks on my phone (which was playing out through a Bluetooth speaker) are bizarre, even by my own standards. First there’s this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0drSzhnMbJg Then The Kinks from 1965.. yeah… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjdgijpgOl4 Then a… Read more →

Looks like someone just got rich..

Here in the UK, where the great people live, the www.apple.co.uk domain has never gone to the place you’d think. It’s been owned by a design agency called Apple for a number of years, but now the iPhone-making Apple have grabbed it. No-one is quite sure how, but Apple have plenty of cash washing around to “encourage” the existing owners… Read more →

Fast and Furious

OK, ITV2.. or possibly ITV3…possibly even ITV2+1 … I’m not so sure, but either way they’re showing “2 Fast 2 Furious“. It is, and I have to say this, appalling on every level. I have a few annoyances with it.. – For some reason the makers of the film think that every car with a “stick shift” has at least… Read more →

Downloading TV – A sting in the tail

Our wonderfully expensive Sky TV box now has an upgraded GUI and the ability to download shows thanks to an ethernet port around the back. It’s no longer just Sky Broadband customers who get the ability to download TV, so we’re happily grabbing shows over our fibre connection (FTTC aka “Infinity”). I say “happily”, but perhaps I should say a… Read more →

A long drive home…

So tonight I had perhaps the longest journey home I’ve ever had. A 40 minute journey took 2 hours. It started off badly, with a shunt on a main slip-road. I figured I’ve divert around it, so I queued past. The Police were on scene and the accident was blocking two lanes of the slip. Two miles down the road,… Read more →

Moyles – The end

So, I can’t really say that this was unexpected, but Chris Moyles is to leave his Radio 1 breakfast show. It is, if we’re honest, the end of his time at Radio 1 too. He’ll be “taking a break” when the show completes in September and then will probably appear in just a weekend slot until the end of his… Read more →

For The Win !

The whole banking crisis. That. Us, the poor sods working our arses off and getting screwed over. That. Here’s a BBC Comedy show called “For The Win (FTW)” which looks pretty decent. Definitely watch the full show … It’s amezzin… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZM8k-HBizk Read more →

Working too hard during your journey to work?

During a conversation about WiFi on trains over at The Register I stumbled across this reader comment about the fact that many people seem to work whilst on the train. It’s a sad fact that many people are “expected” to complete extra tasks and use their own time to do it, even without payment. The more you do this, the… Read more →