Just when you thought buying property in London was too expensive this little number can be picked up for a bargain.
A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for £170,000 in London’s upmarket Chelsea.  The former janitor’s storeroom measures 11ft by 7ft and has a cupboard place for a shower [...]

Continuing the theme of stupid people I spotted this article on Ananova.
Season ticket gaffe

A Man Utd fan’s wife gave her hubby a £550 season ticket – four months after the Premiership kicked off.
She bought it last year but didn’t hand it to him until his 40th birthday earlier this month, reports the Sun. Her blunder [...]

This is the conclusion I have come to. Today the Oscar nominations were announced and I’ve barely seen any of the supposed best films of the year. The list of ones I’ve seen is tiny. I’ve highlighted the ones I’ve watched and given that the Departed comes up so often the total [...]

BBC News site and sums up the stupidity of some people.
‘Thieves’ tracked via satellite

Three men have been arrested for allegedly stealing global positioning systems mistaken for mobile phones. Fourteen GPS tracking systems were stolen last week from a warehouse in Babylon, New York. They were to be used to help the city council track lorries. [...]

This is bizarre even by normal bizarre ebay auction standards

Came across this article which I found quite interesting in a geeky sort of way.
“We spoke to NVIDIA to understand why there isn’t a 8800 Vista driver currently and why we won’t see one until Vista’s launch. NVIDIA’s GPU drivers these days are made up of approximately 20 million lines of code, which as a [...]

Interesting account of how a Wii can help you lose weight here.

Today we booked our flights. We fly out on November 7th in the evening and via Hong Kong make our way to Auckland. Here we pick up our vehicle (which may be a camper or a car depending on what we decide) and head off on a 21 day whistle stop tour of [...]

We’ve spent the last week trying to work out our holiday plans for the year and it’s not easy. The plan is to Fly to Auckland, hire a camper van and then drive around the two islands (complete with ferry crossing) for 3 weeks before flying back home from Christchurch.
We’ve had to check flights, [...]

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year! We did
We have been so busy this Christmas, visiting people, playing on the Wii (which is very tiring!) and just plain old having a good time. The girls had their first Christmas, and it was a real joy to share it with them [...]