Dial up a new dect phone
If like me you like gizmos, you’ll love what you can get to go about your everyday business nowadays. Time was when you just got to use bic biros and a pencil sharpener – and one of those plastic tube things to shuffle your paper clips around. But now you have the chance to [...]
June 22, 2010Vuvuzela is adding buzz to world cup
The BBC is considering offering a ‘red button service’ in a bid to appease complaints surrounding the sound of the vuvuzela.
The noise of the plastic horn has become a hotly-debated issue since the start of the World Cup in South Africa last Friday.
On Tuesday morning the BBC confirmed it has received 545 [...]
Getting on with on-line shopping
I hate shopping. I rarely if ever go to the shops - and when I do I try and get out of the shop (or shopping centre) again as quickly as possible. Oddly though, I rather like on-line shopping and can peer wistfully at retail web sites again and again. So what [...]
June 20, 2010Absolutely everyone for tennis?
Oh dear, Wimbledon is kicking off and the jingoistic BBC is in something of a quandary. First of all there is the small matter of the world cup. Secondly, the brave Brit forever fated to fail heroically is in fact a dour Scot.
It’s all rather amusing. Every four years the nation [...]
Suffolk gets bad case of die-a-rhea - thanks to RSPCA
Disturbing and appalling news of bird cruelty in the East Anglian Daily Times. A South American ostrich called a Rhea was callously shot and killed – by the RSPCA. The local had got quite used to seeing the Rhea poking around in the fields, doing what Rheas do, eating what Rheas eat,. [...]
June 18, 2010Bloody sunday makes me see red
The Bloody Sunday killings were unjustified and unjustifiable, the Prime Minster has said.
Thirteen marchers were shot dead on 30 January 1972 in Londonderry when British paratroopers opened fire on crowds at a civil rights demonstration.
Fourteen others were wounded, one later died. The Saville Report is heavily critical of the Army and found that soldiers fired [...]
Guerrilla Marketing
One of the more odious things about the World Cup is how the cameramen are instructed to zoom in on attractive women in the crowd. Even as a bit of a chauvinist I find this a bit pathetic. So I was quite pleased to find out after overdosing on rather luscious blondes in [...]
June 6, 2010Derby Day
Like most people I Am not remotely interested in horse racing. Apart from the big races. And races don’t come much bigger then the derby. So I was somewhat transfixed that Workforce broke the track record with a blistering turn of foot as he won the 231st running of the Derby by [...]
May 28, 2010Trust USA politicians not to let a good crisis by
Nice to see that President Obama can be just as big a hypocrite as our politicians – perhaps even more so. Is it just me – or is there something cynical and opportunistic about Americans hand-wringing and shedding crocodile tears about the Gulf Oil Disaster?
It’s 45 days since the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon [...]
Buying Office Electronics
Even if you work at home nowadays, you can have an office electronics system that a few years ago you’d associate with a multinational company. If you need internet, video, and audio conferencing facilities in your own home – then you can have them – no problem.
In fact the sophistication of home phone [...]