Kathryn bought me this book for Christmas and I read it on the train to and from a meeting in London last week. I literally – no pun intended – read it from cover to cover in the 4 hours of travelling and I can highly recommend it. It’s based on the exploits of a […]
I have finally taken the plunge and bought myself a shiny new Apple Macbook. It’s 2Ghz and comes with the default 512 meg of RAM but I plan on upgrading that. Got it on the Apple refurb store but it is quite obviously new as is usually the case with the Refurb store and thanks
Winning the award for most eye catching car security system is this effort from Australian Peter Teslan which Kathryn found here. Needless to say I want one and Kathryn is probably in the process of making one. The car owner has a site here and it has some very cool looking things on it.
For the second day running we’ve had snow and the office is looking somewhat abandoned. Car is stranded in the car park and I’m trying to decide whether to drive or walk home. Supposed to be going to see Ricky Gervais later so it remains to be seen what the roads will be like getting
Have been waiting for the new Mac chipset to come out before jumping ship from the world of windows. Apparently we are almost there so I’d better get saving.
Today is my final day working as part of LogicaCMG’s Rimnet team. Been working on it now for 3 years of which the last 2 have been live support. I’m sure Simon’s D & P, Sean, Dave, Tom, Mark, Rhidian and Gavin will be able to cope without me although obviously they’ll miss me immensely.
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
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
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 of unique films
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