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I used to work for a company called EDS in Telford. I didn’t stay long and, if I’m honest, it was one of the weirdest places I’ve ever worked at. For 6 months nobody could really tell me what my job title was or what I was meant to do with the day. There really [...]

The weather here in the UK is pretty rubbish at the minute. It’s dark, windy, wet and the roads are greasy. Here’s another YouTube video showing you why you shouldn’t drive quickly in the wet. I should know – especially in the ice – I managed to do a lovely spin in my old car. [...]

Ummm.. Errrmm… I’m not going to say anything about this particular piece of video – you can get some opinions here if you want. This is the US Army in action somewhere in Iraq. They appear to be taking a slightly different approach with the locals compared to other troops… If you can’t see the [...]

I’ve spoken about the M6 Toll before. I live about 2 miles from T6 and we’ve got one of the M6 Toll Tags in the car and both Emily and I use the road. I usually use it if I’m late for work and Emily uses it to get to Birmingham Airport quickly. Although it [...]

Emily had to call Orange Customer Services this evening. Her phone (a Samsung D600e) has been playing up for a while and refuses to turn on. She called up Orange yesterday and waited 10 minutes to talk to someone about a replacement. I was quite impressed with the response from Orange. Everything was done and [...]

I live in Staffordshire. It’s a lovely area. Actually, if you need me to be accurate I’d say South Staffordshire. It’s so “South” that we’re a few miles away from the lovely West Midlands which is where I was brought up. Yes, I do have the remnants of a “Black Country Accent” and I’ve even [...]

Cast your mind back a few months and you may remember how I purposefully replied to a Nigerian scam to show just how well planned and nasty they can get. I kept the whole thing running for several weeks and we received certificates and pictures of cash in huge chests via email. It’s all a [...]

Today I was reading a newspaper in the hospital (long story I won’t go into) and spotted this story. Though it may not mean a great deal to a lot of you guys, I have had the pleasure of meeting Susi Weaser of shinyshiny.tv whilst at the Mobius conference in Boston. Congrats Susi on getting [...]

Are you having problems getting to certain websites today? Well, it looks like PSINet are having some severe problems. Everything seems to be offline – their name servers aren’t responding and they’ve been offline for about 4 hours solid now. The company itself is owned Cogent Communications – which has a terrible reputation in the [...]

Another day, another YouTube video in this blog. This is a video featuring possibly the worst burglar ever. It’s probably been on the internet for a while, however this time somone has decided to edit it down a bit and add some music. Suddenly he becomes the Buster Keaton of our day. If you want [...]