Red's Ramblings v.2

BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC online video service launches   “At first the iPlayer will only be available on PCs running Windows XP but the BBC says it is committed to making it available on all platforms. The BBC Trust says it will keep a close eye on how this is progressing. All BBC catch-up [...]

Not wanting to be outdone with all the flooding in the south I let the water out of the kids pool. It was looking a bit green anyway. Result… our very own flood. Yay!, now Sky News can come round and film an sensationalist and exaggerated “end of the world™” report. Disclaimer: No Guinea Pigs [...]

100_1712.JPG Originally uploaded by redsmartie ® As sites like flickr.com have improved I’ve become more impressed with the level of integration I can get between these sites and my applications. Previously it was only using my iLife apps and .Mac that I could have a quality presentation with a real ease of use but that’s [...]

I’ve just been down to the stables to get a few jobs done which included moving a bloody big pile of wood from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’. I was getting near the bottom of the pile and I uncovered a toad which crawled off under the adjacent plank. I lifted that on and found [...]

I was messing around with Facebook and realised that, of the handful of names on my friends list, all my contacts are current acquaintances and looking around their friends they seem to have a fair population of old school contacts.I know that my school arrangements were always a bit fragmented having gone to a private school with a large [...]

Well my blog has and if your not just viewing this via a cheeky RSS feed you’d be seeing it in all its goodness already. If I haven’t already changed it, and assuming that you’re not reading this in the future by which time it may have been replaced with a hologram, the picture in the header is a photo [...]

digging deeper into this FRAUD with the help of Google I find that the imposture is one Tanya MacAusland, a (currently) 30 year old Canadian female from Hamilton, Ontario. She describes herself as a short, bespectacled, messy but organized, red-haired, blue-eyed, left-handed, musical, smartsy, animal person. Smartsy, hmm? Well why redsmartie and not redsmartsy? I [...]

Forget people rummaging through your rubbish, forget junk email phishing for bank account details, I can show you the most heinous example of identity theft. I thought I’d sign up for Twitter but failed at the first step. Enter name.. r e d s m a r t i e … “That name has been [...]

A chat with a friend on iChat turned one sided when he went off to do more important stuff, perhaps work. Anyway I saw an article about a village fete and it sent me off on a text soliloquy. I drifted back to consciousness a few minutes later and read what I’d typed with a [...]