Oh lordy - I have become an ebayer
Like 15 million other Brits I’ve been buying and selling things on ebay just recently. Have you noticed that you can literally buy anything? But ebay does seem to be a portal into a strange surreal world.
Allegedly you can sell anything and anyone can make money. The BBC once memorably established [...]
Goodbye to the King of Pop
Michael Jackson is dead. News that is perhaps less shocking than the fact that he lived quite as long as he did. His life was bizarre – and his death seems to have been pretty strange too.
Needless to say, the media has become a bunch of sharks in feeding frenzy mode. [...]
Beefing up Business Broadband
Why are the needs of business broadband so overlooked? I’m not sure our broadband vision for the future is good enough for domestic use – let alone business use. Many UK households now have powerful on-line games consoles placing huge demands on-line capacity. Already ‘high-speed broadband’ is struggling [...]
July 9, 2009Where’s my football club gone?
Here we are in high summer with the Ashes starting and my thoughts have turned to football. And all because my local paper, the East Anglian Daily Times has seen fit once again to print some spurious nonsense from the chief executive of the club I used to support - Ipswich Town.
You might think [...]
I’m being watched
I live in a quiet village. A really sleepy little one – or so I thought. The big news this week is that somebody tried to burgle the bowling club. Not exactly crimes of the century, but the pensioners obviously don’t agree. Clearly something had to be done. So [...]
July 7, 2009Dog food days
Yesterday, I was dropped into Focus DIY store yesterday where I saw they now stock that useful DIY product, dog food (but very little useful timber). Funny stuff dog food. Like pooches, dog dood comes in all shapes and sizes – and prices.
Everyone knows dogs eat anything. And the more disgusting the better. A glutinous [...]
Telephone Chatter
Let’s face it – a telephone never used to say much about your personality. No matter how rich and famous, or geeky you were, your telephone was guaranteed to look exactly the same as anyone else’s. It looked hideous, had a long curly wire and came from BT. And it was [...]
July 6, 2009I need a new sun lounger
The recent heat wave has had the family lounging out in the garden for most of the last couple of weeks. Only trouble is, we are bit short of chairs. The dog likes to recline in comfort too. No problem I thought – just head off to the local DIY store or garden centre and [...]
July 4, 2009Cable or Satellite Television - which is best?
Who else get caught up in the Setanta crash here in the UK? I only joined them to get the added sports coverage. Now they have gone belly-up. They say because of the cost of using the Sky satellite (although paying over the odds for unwanted sports events might ne more [...]