Archives for August, 2008

Macworld | Seinfeld and Microsoft: More proof that IT is crazy


Macworld | Seinfeld and Microsoft: More proof that IT is crazy: “No, don’t write in to tell me that you’re happy with Vista. You’re not. You just think you are. You have swallowed Redmond’s blue pill.” That made lol out loud

iPhone updates


For only the second time ever I’m using the iPhone WordPress app. For this reason I’m going to keep it short but I wanted to share a realisation. Where I live I rarely see the 3G symbol. That’s O2′s fault not Apple or the iPhone. So without that all we are left with is GPS [...]

Fire Eagle WordPress Widget


The WordPress widget for Fire Eagle isn’t the easiest thing to find but here it is. http://wordpress.fireeagle.yahoo.net/wp/

Birthday meme


as seen on Dogwood Tales Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. March 30th Events 240 BC – 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet. 1822 – Florida Territory created in the United States. 1856 – The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean [...]

Birthday Blog


I recall blogging about our first medals in the Athens Olympics which reminded me that wasn’t long after me starting this blog. A quick check confirms that my blog will be 4 years old tomorrow. Four years of talking crap.

File Magnet


Starting with FileMagnet I’m going to start writing mini-reviews and comments on iPhone applications and how I get on with them. I’ve been thinking about doing this over the past week but never got round to it, however I just bought FileMagnet for £2.99 and i feel compelled to write about it. This is very [...]

iPhone update relief


(.1) Having upgraded to 2.0 the unofficial way with the download hacked from the XML update files I was happy that 2.0.1 updated normally via iTunes and made me all “official” again. Its not that I have a problem with custom firmware but I just know that if I had gone down the road of [...]

Game music make a good ringtone


I’ve been playing with some ringtones. I did have an R2D2 bleep but after this embarrassed me in Tesco while shopping I stuck with my MGS Codec which is nicely discrete. I also got hold of some other video game music. All the usual Nintendo suspects were there from Mario, etc but of note the [...]