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Everyone that moves house will no doubt have some sort of checklist. I’m steadily working through ours and I’ve ticked off the gas company, the electric company, the water company and many more. So far, so good I thought, and most of the “big” changes have gone smoothly. Ah, but now we get to the [...]

Somehow, after a bit of Googling for something completely different, I ended up on AmericaBlog.com. The site seems to dedicate itself to bringing “the truth” to the American people. There’s various stories which are well worth reading, such as the recent change in security to make sure that Europe provides America with information about religious [...]

Over the last week I’ve been making more changes which should hopefully result in faster loading times across the site. Behind the scenes though there’s some big changes in my own life, and we’ll be moving house this week sometime. This means that the lovely fast Internet connection will be pulled out and it’ll no [...]

Here’s an iPhone on display in an Apple store. I use Unix quite a bit and recognise the “fsck” prompt, which is a disk check. Apparently a reboot fixes this problem – it seems to have gone into single user mode. Oh, and the picture was taken with an iPhone (yes, it is blurry). Link [...]

Jordan, in a move that is guaranteed to sell more copies of “Heat”, “Glamour” and every other paparazzi magazine available, has named her baby girl “Princess Tiaamii”. No, I’m not joking. Their second child together will have a name pronounced tee-ah-me. It’s apparently a mash-up of Peter Andre’s moms name Thea and Jordan’s mom, Amy. [...]

Sky News have just completed research into nuisance 999 (which is the Emergency Services number for the UK) call. 21 forces took part in the survey and they discovered that nearly half of all calls were unnecessary. In Strathclyde 85% of calls were not emergencies! Some callers asked about hedgehogs and cigarettes, whilst others called [...]

I’ve not watched this movie for quite some time and, to be honest, I’ve just remembered why. What a load of absolute rubbish. The flight sequences are great, but the excessive bravado, painfully over-writen script and idiotic lines like, “I think World War Two has just started” as the Japanese attack (this is set in [...]

What the hell is going on with our weather? Flood after flood after flood. It’s almost as if global warming has gone into overdrive… I mean sure, the ice caps may melt and flood large parts of the UK, but I honestly didn’t think we’d get a months worth of rain every few hours. This [...]

The Apple iPhone. It’s out now in the USA and the feedback, according to Apple, is “broadly positive”. There’s new applications for it and more are appearing daily. But, there’s a potential problem. Think about it – all of the apps have to be on the internet somewhere. They’re hosted on a web server. It [...]

Today, for a change, it rained. I’m beginning to think that summer 2007 is officially cancelled here in the UK because it has been completely rrrrrrrrrrrrrubbish. The weather forecasters have now started to say, “Good evening.. ermm.. no, this isn’t a recording but…..” Rain… then tomorrow, it’ll rain. Then the next day things are looking [...]