The Gadget Show

I just happened to watch the first episode of the Gadget Show on channel Five tonight. My interest was sparked by the promise of a review of the new Macbook Air. The segment was actually a comparison shootout between the Mac, a Sony Vaio, and the Asus Eee pc. Talk about biased, the eee didn’t [...]

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Kevin Spacey – Mind Reader

Did Kevin Spacey read my mind? After yet another advertorial (or infomercial) on the BBC last night for their latest “find a star” project, I turned to the other half and exclaimed “Why the heck should I put money into a West End production’s pockets with this free advertising on a supposedly commercial free TV [...]

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Mission Implausible

Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) cracks me up. I need say no more than point you towards the trailer for his latest movie “Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden” I don’t whether to laugh or cry.

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Tracey Ullman – State of The Union

It’s a pity we don’t get much really good US comedy over here anymore (I still miss you, Frasier) but it is very good to see Tracey Ullman still working hard over there. Remember Tracey with Lenny Henry and David Copperfield in “Three of a Kind” back in the early ’80’s? That series was also [...]

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Happy Birthday Phatware!

As a long term user of PhatNotes (HPCnotes, as was) I can highly recommend it. It is a great note taking program for both Pocket PC  and Smartphone (and Palm once upon a time but that seems to have disappeared). To celebrate Phatware’s 10th Birthday not only have they given their website a fresh new look, [...]

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Botswana Dreams

Last night I dreamt I was in Africa…….. No  its not the beginning of a novel, its just that I watched The No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, yesterday. I must admit I sometimes cringe when I see that an “interpretation” of a favourite novel is about to be filmed, and when I heard that Richard Curtis was [...]

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Weather Or Not

The weather is really peculiar at the moment. First there was the “2 foot of snow” forcast and then the “flood warning”. Luckily so far, all we have had is a few flurries of sleety snowy stuff, and then sunshine??? It does make for some interesting cloudscapes though. The pictures below were grabbed in town [...]

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A Week of Contrasts

 It really has been a week of contrasts for me regarding customer service departments. From my impotent rage at the water company (all sorted finally) to my wrestle with Vodafone over my phone sim that suddenly stopped working last week. It took 2 calls, 2 emails,  3 replacement sims and an hour in my local Vodafone store to [...]

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Art In Milton Keynes

 Milton Keynes has a really nice art gallery, unfortunately I can’t remember the last time they had anything in there worth going to see (unless you are into exploded cardboard boxes, scribble and worse) Sad but true. The Centre MK, however does have a useful blank space at the John Lewis end where they put [...]

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In The Buff

 ”The Buff” (or Head-Gaiter as I have seen it described on a US site) is a simple scarf in tubular form, and has a  cult like following. OK, so I saw some being sold off cheap in my local John Lewis and thought for a couple of quid I would give it a bash. OK, what [...]

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