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 to twitter, email, google reader, and a couple of forums, I’ve done over 300MB this [...]
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 was a special line available for non-muppets to call though. Speaking to the tech support phone monkeys [...]
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 section, but on the extended play afterwards, I did OK. At one point I was [...]
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 lights on, no siren, approaching a busy traffic light controlled junction on the “wrong side” of the road, [...]
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 overpriced, even at free. It frequently locked up, dropped the connection, and just wouldn’t work [...]
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, I also walked home today, feel the burn), I ate a microwave meal (we really do need [...]
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 anybody alive today? Surely there was a time before smoke alarms, stair gates, hot water temperature restrictors, [...]
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 hell.
I tell you what, if you want me to “choose” a big brand to theme [...]
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 printing options direct from Flickr.
Could this be a viable alternative to SmugMug, which I looked [...]
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 Switched Telephone Network) had collapsed nationally.
Apparently, some folks watching over it all were going to [...]
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