Red's Ramblings v.2

It may as well be a murder mystery. I’ve killed the best part of a week on this and I’m still without a satisfactory resolution.
The story goes like this. I rely upon a VPN connection to access the office from home. I don’t use it all the time but when something goes wrong and I [...]

My plans (not that I had worked them out yet but that’s how I start this post)… My plans, have been dealt a mortal blow. Not by Somalian pirates, not even by good old Cornish ones, but by my good lady wife. Well not so much her but by her flat tyre. The net result [...]

I thought it best to do a summary of recent events so as not to have such a backlog of things I wanted to mention that it prevented me posting anything at all.
The holiday went well. We’d opted to go to our friends apartment again. Its in a brilliant location in Arenal D’en Castell on [...]

My Virgilio Anderson t-shirt arrived today and since I’ve had a travelling day I’ve been to many a place around Manchester and I can report that no-one has approached me with any information as to Virgilio Andersons identity.
I did drop in on my mate Simon Steele the famous celebrity hair stylist who gave me a [...]

Frustratingly and not for the first time this week I was half a mile into a run and realised that I hadn’t activated the sensor. Or I should say that I did activate it but it went to sleep again before I started running. It may have been that the auto-lock on the phone kicked [...]

Its seems that the mass hysteria last night forced Twitters host to bow down under pressure and postpone their scheduled maintenance.
“A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the [...]

I posted a thread on the ITIdiots forum that was so long and said exactly what I wanted to say here that I decided to be lazy and to cut and paste it. A job I can now don funnily enough, on the iPhone.

I have a mate who develops iPhone apps and I occasionally do [...]

I was contacted yesterday by a company representing O2 to answer a few questions on my recent contact with O2 customer services and my opinion of them as an operator. I don’t normally answer calls that come up on my phone as blocked nor do I usually entertain market research calls but O2 have always [...]

I got a cheap Bluetooth headset at Christmas to use with the PS3 and while it worked it wasn’t very good. It looked and felt cheap, and there was an audible hiss when using it. So when I saw the Official headset back in stock at Gameplay I thought it was worth a punt.
Straight out [...]

I was going to post a few weeks ago about the dark nights drawing in and the lack of light in the mornings. In the end I didn’t. I knew the change was being felt from Tweets and good old fashioned verbal conversations I had with people. I only mention it now as I was [...]