Red's Ramblings v.2

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 [...]

I’m currently sat relaxing over a cup of Tetley Red Bush, a drink I’m increasingly getting a taste for, while watching jochta (John Talbot) complete his LEJOG (Lands End to John’O Groats). Who needs live E3 coverage for entertainment, eh? John’s been keeping a full blog of the trip as well as having live GPS [...]

Don’t ye be forgetting that tomorrow be Talk Like A Pirate Day. And I notice that Cravendale has stuck up a free TLAPD iPhone app. Get it here.

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Man City | Robinho makes Man City move gaffe “On the last day, Chelsea made me a great proposal and I accepted it,” he said, to which a reporter replied: “You mean Manchester right?”. “Yeah, Manchester, sorry” answered Robinho. lol.. just wait till he gets to the [...]

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

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.

I’ve expanded my range of wallpapers on my iPhone and wanted the Strontium Dog picture that I have on my office wall (and have for some 8 years). While looking for the original pic, which I remembered was on the Carlos Ezquerra Official Website, I found some rather nice pictures of Durham Red who I [...]

It was on the cards since last weeks incident with the Rangers match in Manchester but I have to ask, what really has changed? I’ve seen Manchester United parade trophies in open top buses many, many times (thankfully) over the years and I can’t see how the trouble in the city centre last week can [...]

BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Uefa Cup fans clash with police I had planned going into town to soak up the atmosphere but it appears that if I had done just that then the afternoon was the time to go. I really can’t believe some of the comments posted in that article. But [...]