Archive for the 'General' Category

Turkey was excellent. Best holiday of my life…

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Daniel keeping us all entertained while he attempts to set up the auto time feature on his camera.

The final evening before heading back to blighty. Our smiles show the good time we had.

Internet Radio goes quiet for a day

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

In protest at the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision to increase royalties payable by Internet Radio broadcasters by a massive amount and retroactively impose them back to June 2006, a very large proportion of the Internet’s radio stations have gone quiet. Live365, Pandora, DI.fm and ultimately, Shoutcast.com.
Although the quietness only lasted for 24 hours, it won’t […]

iFanboys, don’t iDrop your iPhone

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

…it might iSmash on the iFloor.
Perhaps it’s just me that thinks using optical quality glass in the production of the new Apple iPhone may lead to more than one dropping incident turning in to an expensive episode for some iFanboys but Apple have just announced some new upgrades/revisions will be incorporated in to their soon […]

Stalinism to end when Tories in power?

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

My good god. Finally someone down in Whitehall actually has a clue!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Tory, I find their ilk thoroughly boring but save for any better alternative this guy seems to be talking sense. Unfortunately the article does mention that Bliar (intentionally mis-spelt) said very much the same thing in 1997 […]

Blair (BLiar) and Brown (Pants) tag-team Civil Liberties.

Monday, June 11th, 2007

I came across this amusing yet accurate cartoon drawing of the hand off of the job of Prime Minster from Blair (Bliar) and Brown (Pants) tag-teaming against Civil Liberties.
As they say, a picture paints a thousand words. This one paints millions. Times cartoonist Morland touching on a subject close to my heart perfectly.

Defrauded by… my own bank?

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Last Tuesday (29th May) I decided to open an ISA. While at work at went through the necessary forms online and shortly thereafter received a welcome email telling me that I had to send a cheque from my nominated bank account so that I could complete the signup process and my account becomes active. One […]

Dell E520 + ATI X1950XT = dual monitors don’t work

Monday, May 28th, 2007

I recently purchased a Dell E520 computer after one of my colleagues tipped me off about a good deal on Dell’s website. The deal has since ended but both myself and the IT Manager at work managed to nab one for a princely sum of £329.

Intel Core2 Duo E4300
2GB 533MHz DDR2
250GB SATA HDD
19″ Dell Flat […]

HOWTO: Change MCE Remote Keyboard IR Transmit Channel

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

I’ve been searching for this information for a very long time but because of the stupid arbitrary name that Microsoft destowed upon their Media Center keyboard, it has proved somewhat troublesome. Ironically, not five minutes after I post on thegreenbutton.com asking for help, I stumble across a post on another forum giving instructions on […]