Monthly Archives: November 2009
Sunday 29th November 2009
I’m still accessing the web via a mobile phone dangling off a USB lead, which is a bit frustrating – 3G broadband is absolutely NOT ready for the powerusers (I would count myself that, even though I’ve been sticking mainly … Continue reading
Friday 27th November 2009
I haven’t gone off typing up a blog (almost) daily. Honest. I’m currently restricted to internet via tethering my mobile phone to the PC, as my normally pretty damn good O2 broadband has let me down. I do wish there … Continue reading
Tuesday 24th November 2009
File this evening under “lost to the XBox”. I’ve spent pretty much all evening playing season two of 1 vs 100. In a nutshell, it’s a pubquiz on your XBox. I wasn’t too hot on the actual 1 vs 100 … Continue reading
Monday 23rd November 2009
City of London Police have an utterly inadequate driver training programme. I should clarify that. City of London Police have an utterly inadequate driver training programme, if what I saw this evening is representative. First, a large police van, blue … Continue reading
Thursday 19th November 2009
Finally, after many, many, moons, I’ve pulled my finger out of my behind and eventually (mostly) configured the Cisco 877W I picked up to replace the O2 Wireless Box II, which was provided free with my ADSL connection, and was … Continue reading
Tuesday 17th November 2009
Whoah, a gap, a missed day, an interruption. Oh noes… But Mat, what happened to yesterday, I can hear literally nobody asking. Pretty much bugger all happened yesterday. I went to work, I walked home (there’s the healthy living blogged, … Continue reading
Sunday 15th November 2009
For the love of {insert deity}, why won’t these people just leave us alone? Health and safety inspectors to be given access to your homes, to make sure that you aren’t putting the cheeeeeeldren at risk? But how is there … Continue reading
Saturday 14th November 2009
So, Windows 7 users. You’re about to be offered the awesome thing that is branded themes for your operating system. Coca-Cola, Ducati and Twentieth Century Fox are apparently some of the earliest companies to sign up to create this advertising … Continue reading
Friday 13th November 2009
At some point over the weekend, when I’ve stopped running off around the world shooting up terrorists/airports/slums/whatever, I’m going to have to do some investigations. Seems that Flickr have announced a deal with Snapfish to give a range of photo … Continue reading
Thursday 12th November 2009
Once again the wonderful folks in Whitehall prove that they aren’t quite in touch with reality. Operation White Noise, which took place yesterday and today was apparently designed to “simulate a catastrophic nationwide communications failure”, as if the PSTN (Public … Continue reading