Cup Of Coffee

I couple of thoughts from this weekend. The first comes from something I saw on Saturday – it was a guy on some step-ladders at the local Texaco petrol station. He was increasing the price of the fuel on that sign by the road. As I sat by the traffic lights he increased the price [...]

So you’re a police officer, you’re chasing a speeding motorist and you’re doing about 120mph. You’re on a motorway and it’s empty. Surely nothing can go wrong …… can it? Well, unfortunately it did for this traffic cop… and it wasn’t the first time either… If you can’t see the video above, click here for [...]

You’ve gotta love Princess Juliana Airport. Located in St Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. They’ve got a small runway .. in fact, it’s really small here it is on Google maps. It’s infamous short landing strip and beaches at either end mean that local sun-bathers can get blown off the beach by jet engines and planes approach [...]

Like many people we have money tied up on a credit card. The low or 0% interest rates soon run out and you find yourself searching for a new card with a better interest rate. So I did a bit of searching on Yahoo finance and switched to Abbey. I entered the previous card details [...]

Top Gear on BBC2 is going from strength to strength and is probably worth the licence fee alone right now. Here’s another YouTubey from this weeks episode. Just in case you missed it.. Top Gear decided to try and convert a Robin Reliant….into a Space Shuttle. Every boffin they approached said it would be impossible, [...]

The rinky-dink panther, rinky-dink panther. Does anyone remember this TV show when they were younger? The song at the start sticks in my head and after a bit of Googling I found the lyrics…… “Think of all the animals you’ve ever heard about like rhinoc’ruses and tigers cats and mink There are lots of funny [...]

Yet another sexy dance tune with equally sexy dancers.. Clean those trumpets girls ! Go on ! This will probably be removed from YouTube fairly soon now that they’re tightening up on the copyrighted material, so watch while you can ! (By the way, it’s called “Destination Calabria / Destination Unknown” by Alex Gaudino Ft [...]

Oh dear, a rather easy work-around for getting a full version of Vista from scratch, while only paying the cost of an upgrade for an earlier version of Windows. It’s all explained here after a fellow MVP found out how to do it.

Blimey, this certainly didn’t take long. There’s nothing wrong with eating the Bernard Matthews turkeys, it’s still causing people to give them a miss…

What rubbish couple of days I’ve had. Yesterday morning I actually left home early and was on my way up the M6 when the traffic slowed and then stopped. I figured it was a shunt and we’d be on our way soon enough, however 20 minutes later we’d still not moved. After a number of [...]