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Right up your street?
2008-06-06 18:24:00
Tata of India has begun finalising the details of their latest car, the Nano. What is so different about this car as opposed to any other is that it will cost a mere £1,250 ($2500) to buy. Now this brings obvious opportunity to many developing countries and many opportunities to market in more affluent countries to ...
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There is danger in the jungle or beware Amazonians bearing gifts!
2008-06-06 10:47:00
Be careful of what seems like a good offer… …unlimited DVD’s for £9.99 ($20) was the offer that Amazon.co.uk made and I gladly accepted. Just pick, have them delivered and return, seemed simple enough and for a couple of years I was doing just that. Amazon have decided to get out of the market and transferred their business ...
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The tooth fairy took my TV!
2008-06-02 17:00:00
At least I think it was the tooth fairy, though I don’t think the insurers believed me! A few days ago I had my lovely new (4 months old) HD LCD stolen along with some other items from where I live. This is a big word of warning and advice to those that have similar products. Without hesitation, ...
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Eurovision . . . Britains Voices
2008-05-20 23:40:00
Its that time of year again…..Eurovision is upon us. Now for someone that doesnt follow sports it is my once a year time to get worked up over an event shared by millions all over Europe and slightly beyond. There are plenty of acts this year to get excited about and some, as usual, to forget, but that is the beauty of the diversity of the Eurovision Song Contest. Something for everyone to get excited about, to be moved by, to scorn and to laugh at, good bad and indifferent. I have just watched the first of two semi-finals and I enjoyed it, I had already picked five of the winners of this heat, so not too bad. I’ll have to see how well I can do in the second part. Some surprise winners and some not so. The voting changes appear to have evened the playing field. I dont hold with the block vote theory 100 percent of the time, I think cultures mix in a competition where most countries are bordered by at least one other country, unlike the UK and Ireland which both sit al...

Faster than the speed of time! eh?
2008-05-20 17:01:00
Doesnt time fly when your not having fun?I dont want to dwell on bad things but I havent had a good time of late mainly with work.The good news, I will very shortly no longer be with my present company, however that is also the bad news as I dont have anything new to go to  just yet.I will survive and at least I will no longer be enslaved, which I felt I was in my last position.As they say, the only way is up!As I might have some extra time to fill in, between job searches, you might get a few more posts on here :-)Wish me luck 
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The coolest piece of tech gadgetry EVER!
2008-03-31 23:17:00
An R2D2 Projector with Millenium Falcon remote control, see it, believe it, want it! This has to be the coolest tech gadget that I have seen for ages.An R2D2 projector, help us Obi-Wan Ken-obi your our only hope, oh yeah and get some popcorn while your at it, ok! And if it couldn’t get any better……..a Millenium Falcon remote control. YES! I FEEL THE FORCE! LOL So if anyone has £2,000 ($4,000) spare and you want to watch all three original movies in one go, email me! Look here  read more | digg story
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Moving the foundations while leaving the house standing
2008-03-29 10:59:00
Sometimes change is good.Take this week for example, my webhost is moving, not just to another server but to another state!Now anyone worth their salt should be able to perform such a move in an organized manor and have almost zero downtime for their customers, unfortunately that isnt my webhost :-)So the time had come to find a new one, one that would be faster, more reliable as downtime has been an issue recently, one that is more secure as hacking has been a big issue and one that had better support.Now this doesnt come without a price and I have paid that price, several times more than I was paying but I have to say I am very impressed with my new host, what they offer and how they offer it.Needless to say there is always some turbulence during a move but you should have stopped seeing the old site and started seeing this new one without any real break in service, apart from the one goof made by myself because I didnt setup the DNS entries correctly, woopsy!But in essence if you...
More About: House , Moving , Foundations , Standing , The House

Hacked at more times than an Amazonian tree
2008-03-16 16:43:00
This week has been full of activity. Hacker activity. Oh the joy! From simple text files being places in directories, through information being stored in one of my databases through to a fully fledged phishing attack on a major bank from one of my website. Needless to say I have tightened security and continue to scour the internet ...
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Was Granny Smith an apple whore? [NSFW]
2008-03-06 23:23:00
Well its finally happened. The last nail was hammered into the coffin and the cadaver rests forever undisturbed inside. Ok, its a little dramatic, I grant you that but when you are wronged repeatedly you have to say enough is finally enough. A shop sells you crap, you stop buying. Your train company delays you, you fly or ...
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Sometimes I am scared to open one eye in the morning!
2008-02-25 00:06:00
You think life has shown you her best, treated you to her tastiest morsels and then she goes and surpasses herself yet again, good old life! Yes, relaxing as I was at my computer, surfing the web so that I might not have to do all those other important things I really should be doing I ...
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Over 17,000 iPod Touch users want their apps for free! Sign the Petition!
2008-02-24 17:20:00
There is a growing voice asking Apple to give everyone with an iPod Touch the recent app upgrade for free. In a previous post I stated how angry I was that while still within the first month of ownership I was being charge a fee that people that potentially had purchased a few days after me ...
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When Des was around, Women weren?t allowed to read blog postings!
2008-02-16 14:10:00
When Des was around, Women weren’t allowed to read blog postings! If a woman read a blog posting then her husband would think she were trying to be more intelligent than him and lock her in a cupboard for a day with no food or water. This might be a line from one of Marc Wootton’s new ...
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In a galaxy far, far away?
2008-02-10 13:37:00
…everyone should have one blog post that has a Star Wars headline 23 years ago back in 1985 I was but a teenager, 15 to be exact and I had a super-computer in my bedroom, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, my second machine after the Sinclair ZX-81 with 16K RAM pack, yeah 16K and that ...
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Today I baked a cake, so bite me!
2008-01-28 02:36:00
I have noticed that I have been using the blog to rant a lot. Now I do, like I guess most of you out there, often have a good reason to rant and it is often better out than in as they say. I am sounding like a miserable sod which really isn’t what I am all ...
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Weirdest marketing call opener ever!
2008-01-19 14:41:00
I recently took a call from a female caller at a marketing company that opened with the line - “Hello, is that the man of the house?”, What, the house NEEDS a man? The house can’t function without a man? Are you trying to sell me an erection cure? (that I don’t need, cough, LOL) Why didn’t she just ...
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I stand corrected, now i?ll shut up and sit down :-)
2008-01-19 11:05:00
Looks like I got the wrong end of the stick, as did a number of others I speak to or read their blogs on the net. The update to the iPod touch is indeed free but the applications are charged for. This is fairish, still a bit peeved that new purchasers get them for free and even ...
More About: General , Shut , Stand , Shut Up , Rect

Disappointed with Apple?s decision to charge for iPod upgrades
2008-01-15 20:38:00
When a $20 charge cost Apple Inc $768! I bought my iPod Touch before right before Christmas. As you saw, I was all excited by my purchase and yes I still do love it. But today I was totally shafted again by Apple and I have to speak out and say I am not happy. Steve Jobs has said ...
More About: Ipod , General , Charge , Decision

How to speak like Gwen from Torchwood in three easy steps, 4 if your workin
2008-01-12 14:14:00
Yes, you too can talk like your favourite Torchwood member, todays lesson Gwen the feisty ex-policewoman now fighting the alien invasion in where was it, oh yes Cardiff, silly of me, obvious really, erm….LOL Now are you sitting comfortably? Then let us begin: 1) Say Noah twice, as in the 40 days and 40 nights and a ...
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Abused as a child?..by my television!
2008-01-12 11:23:00
Let’s be honest we have all been touched by television at some point. Oooh! Hot on the heels of the Captain Pugwash incident, could be the title of an expose film, there comes a new shocking television news story. Not enough time has passed since Keith Chegwin stole my innocence, lets face it there needs to ...
More About: Television , General , Images , Child , Abused

Not after all those brussel sprouts! PLEASE!
2008-01-02 03:09:00
What has to be the most weird link I have viewed this holiday season popped onto my browser screen while viewing the excellent Yanko design blog. Not seen enough of your loved one over the break? Need to see a lot more, possibly too much of them? THEN GO NO FARTHER! I have for you the product your heart has been desiring, yes its true, its here: The love seat……toilet! eewwww! A toilet for two! Click to visit the Yanko Loveseat Toilet (with images) I know, you can hardly wait, should’ve gone before you started reading!

Happy New Year 2008
2007-12-31 12:38:00
Well thats it for another year, You would be looking forward to the January sales if they hadn’t started on Boxing Day! Last year was, certainly for me,  a very strenuous year and this year has to be different either by default or by design. However start as you mean to go on so I have a ...
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ta-ta-ta-ta Touch Me, I want to be Naughty!
2007-12-27 01:38:00
I was naughty, I purchased a new iPod the 16Gb iPod Touch and I think we are going to be married, yes I love it that much. Not that it’s perfect mind! I still want wireless sync (it can’t be that difficult the Apple TV does it for gawds sakes!) and why cant I download podcasts ...
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Wordpress keeps losing my chosen theme, goes back to default
2007-12-17 22:39:00
I upgraded this site to the latest version of Wordpress the other day and changed the theme at the same time. Now ever day or so my theme seems to revert back to the default Wordpress theme and I am at a loss to see how it is doing this on its own. I have even changed ...
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Upgraded the blog, new theme installed
2007-12-15 15:43:00
Hi, Just finished upgrading the website with the latest version of WordPress and also took the opportunity to install a new theme. Hope you like the new look, this also allows me to install new features and links and the like a lot easier than the last theme which didn’t seem to be compatible with anything. Hope you ...
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Naming and a shameing!
2007-12-15 09:23:00
The one down side to selling anything via Amazon is the the amount of utter crap you receive, mostly from that bastion of honesty, Nigeria. This man just tried to scam me out of £200, luckily I have a brain and his attempt stood out a mile, but if you get anything from this person, hit ...
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Some of my favourite comedy videocasts
2007-12-10 02:11:00
Recapping on a previous post I thought I would run through some of the videocasts that I am watching at the moment. If you know me at all you will know that I love my comedy, it really is a big part of me (there’s a joke in there someplace, see what I mean!) so comedy ...
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Treee, A new word for the dictionary
2007-12-01 22:27:00
Treee, a new word for the Oxford English Dictionary . So, you say, we already have that word in the dictionary. Wait one moment, you have Tree in the dictionary but not yet Treee (with three e’s, very important that bit!). So you now say, what the heck is a Treee? A treee much like a tree attracts ...
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Why don?t you turn off your television set? and go and do something less bo
2007-11-06 22:11:00
Showing my age there, Why Dont You?, who remembers that then? Well I made the decision to do just that and turn off the TV as it has become boring and mundane, it just doesn’t excite anymore. Who remembers even in the bad old days of nothing but repeats that we reveled in the delight of a ...
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So annoyed, webhost taking a liberty!
2007-09-16 15:19:00
My webhost has seriously pissed me off today. They have, in their wisdom, signed up to show a less than reputable search engine on my error pages. So if you come to my site and you get any sort of error you would be diverted to an error page which has this other companies search page at ...
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Things you see that make you laugh out loud
2007-08-17 21:53:00
I was driving along minding my own business when my eye was drawn to the road sign. After I read the sign I laughed my socks off, for I had just driven past: Butt Hole Road Wouldn’t you just love to register your address with all those companies when you moved there, would anyone believe you? No chance ...
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