Red's Ramblings v.2

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 [...]

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 [...]