I like to blog, but I've been remiss in posting. So what better time than the end of the year to post what I've been up to. Three tomatoes are walking down the street: a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes […]
My ADSL connection is currently tres latent due to some Cisco badness on BT's part . If you're trying to call me on Skype or my VoIP number, it'll either sound like I'm the Moon, or it won't connect. You may also find my site a tad slow too until it's sorted out. Still, in […]
Just sifting through some tech stories on the BBC News site this morning, and chatting about it to folk on IRC, there are some reporting discrepancies that really wound me up. Hey, what's new; I love railing on the BBC for minor screw-ups, but for BBC News to get things wrong like this doesn't bode […]
Well, looks like one of ThinkGeek's excellent 2003 April Fools — the George Foreman USB iGrill — is still wreaking havoc amongst the gadget blogging community. Not only did Wired's Gear Factor ( cached copy ) pick up this from mobilemag.com ( cached copy ) as though new — Wired, newsflash, it's over three years […]
TiVo Series 3 has landed. How sweet — and expandable — does this DVR look? If only a UK release would happen again ...
Last week, I bought a cheesy Pinnacle USB2 TV-in device. I really only wanted it for composite video in from a PlayStation2; the fact it had an aerial socket for analogue terrestrial TV wasn't a factor in the purchase at all. In fact the main purchase factor was that it was in stock at a […]
Crap. I love blogging, but sometimes I just zone out and forget all about it. So it's time for another CramBlogEntryDuNeuro™ ... november > new car > dj'ed (!) at john and sabrina 's wedding > videoisland died > december > firefox 1.0 > rediscovered celestia > blagged myself a free iPod mini (a gold […]
US budget airline JetBlue have satellite TV built into the aircraft . Each passenger can watch live TV as broadcast on the DIRECTV platform (similar to Sky here in the UK), which is pretty damn cool. Something similar could surely be done with Sky on UK domestic flights, which would make up for the utter […]