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If you’re out in the sticks and unable to get broadband your only real solution has been satellite broadband. Well, it was. Customers of Aramiska had a bit of a surprise customer care message today. Instead of the usual notifications of “10 minutes possible downtime during upgrade” was this rather starling announcement, which wasn’t even [...]

I noticed a sign in a local shop yesterday. It was from The Home Office, who are basically a big group of government people who tell you what you should and shouldn’t be doing. Oh, sorry.. they actually state that their job is to… “make a difference in the real world, helping build a society [...]

Now that (hopefully) the Crazy Frog epidemic is over and we’re left with hideously bad rip-offs of catchphrases and comedy shows by two-bit impressionists, it’s with a clear conscience that I post this spoof of “the frog”. It’s actually Jeb from the guys at weakendproductions.co.uk who say of the video… “Consider it an ‘homage’, or [...]

Guys! Check out my new flat-screen TV ! It only cost 50 quid!

I love Road Wars – it’s a TV show that’s shown at random intervals across Sky One / Sky Two / Sky Three and features some excellent UK Police chases. You can find a full description about it here at Wikipedia.org. Usually it’s from Slough or somewhere in Thames Valley and features traffic police like [...]

I drove into work this morning listening to tubby boy on the radio. Amongst news that mobile phones don’t melt your brain (although the long-term effects are still unknown), was an interesting piece about the huge 85 million rollover on the Euromillions jackpot. What interested me was the news that sales are going through the [...]

I tend to drift off into my own little world while I drive. I had to go up the “Toilet Toll” this morning. It’s known as the M6 Toll of course, but I live about a mile away from T6 and although I don’t really need to use it, it can be a life-saver to [...]

Woohoo! I’m not quite sure what happened there, but it’s very welcome indeed !

Last weekend we went to the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham. I was quite impressed with the place actually, except you will end up going slightly mad after about 3 hours. Every single shop is a Jewellery shop, so you walk from one window, to another and another – all crammed with sparkling great diamonds which [...]

I’ve taken to reading this blog from Jason Calacanis. It’s all about him and Engadget.com / Weblogsinc.com etc. His most recent blog post mentions the problems he was having with uptime on Engadget.com. “We’ve had two long, frustrating years of servers going down.” ..he says. Now let’s start from the top – I’ve had a [...]