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Rebooting the blog
Given my blog has been moved across so many servers over the past six years or so, I thought it about time to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch. This will mean that many of the articles...
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Sky doesn’t prioritise HD movies on Sky+HD box because..
.. they take longer to download. I kid you not! Despite paying Sky an extra £5 a month specifically to receive HD movies, this is the single most ridiculous thing I’ve come across this week. As a...
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A thoroughly modern breakfast
Okay, I don’t do breakfast quite like this everyday (with exception of the mocha – it’s a necessity), but I do read the newspapers and magazines on the iPad as a daily ritual. The Times tablet edition...
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Chromecast is a first class video streamer
On Friday I saw this tweet: As a big fan of video on demand, and having heard good things about Google’s Chromecast, I thought £18 wasn’t bad at all. But it turns out that all the online Tesco...
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Finding gifts used to be difficult. Not any more!
At the risk of sounding laddish, as a bloke I’m forever wondering what to buy people (especially the ladies in my family) as thank-you gifts. Thankfully somebody has come to the rescue in the form of...
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Happy 50th Birthday Charlie & The Chocolate Factory!
Hard to believe that Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is 50th years old this year, but it is! I was quite privileged to work on the 2005 Tim Burton adaptation of the book. It’s not...
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Cats trying to avoid baths
If there’s only one YouTube video you watch this year, make it this one: and for dog lovers:
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For those reading via RSS/Feedly, etc.
Since “re-launching” the blog, I’ve noticed just how aggressive the likes of Feedly are caching all my previous entries through the RSS feed. You may need to remove this blog from your Feed/RSS reader...
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Heron Mews
Saw this fella on the way up to the station this morning on my daily walk. Him and lots and lots of cats. Fish must be lively today.
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iWatch, you watch, bank manager cries: the iPhone 6 – now comes six times...
I don’t know.As much as I like Apple products, I’m now utterly sick of iOS and iCloud.iCloud because of security and availability concerns; it’s difficult to access (from any other devices that are not...
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Western Super Meh!
USA – 0 South Korea, China and Japan – several hundred points So huge, you’re going to need bigger trousers. Thankfully Apple will sell you special iPants along with an iBelt. All interconnected,...
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BBC Worldwide claims VPN users who use a lot of traffic are pirates – forgets...
Oh commercial arm of the BBC, you are such a bunch of lovable silly fools! *ruffles their hair in playful manner* Over at TorrentFreak, it’s claimed BBC Worldwide has been advising the Australian...
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