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Pit stop: Stig’s downtime..
.. is performing popular musical numbers with an umbrella.Yes, that really is the man himself, and yes, that really is a red umbrella. Furthermore, something tells me that the star in the reasonably...
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A load of old bells: cyclists and canal pathways
I do so enjoy my daily power[1] walks along the Basingstoke canal from St. Johns to Woking.I recently started taking a there and back again approach in that I’d leave at 7:30am for Woking station and...
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Brain Drain on the Train
I have absolutely no idea why reasonable and intelligent people turn into utter morons when it comes to commuting by train. These people who are silly, selfish, boorish, idiotic, and completely without...
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Flappy Birds: Extreme Edition
Spotted leaving work this evening flying over the Top Gear test track, hanger/studio and production offices.I’m convinced that they’ll return to swoop down on Jeremy Clarkson and The Stig and fly them...
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Coffee wars: drink in versus take out (raise your cup – or mug or glass or...
As I’ve mentioned here a few times before, I like my daily mocha. In a ceramic mug. But I can appreciate that people like to have their coffee in a takeaway cup for portability reasons. They keyword...
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Happy birthday, my domain!
My goodness, time does fly by!On 27th March 1997 I purchased my first ever domain: drake.org.uk.I was working for Albatross Networks Ltd. of Norwich, and having set-up their ISP and web hosting...
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Silent Sunday-ish
Taken four years ago, 9th January 2010.(If you’re reading via Feedly or some other RSS reader, you’ll need to click on the headline to view the article on the web site itself)Extra bonus photo:
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Martyn’s Adventures in Coffeeland (part one of several million)
So I’m using Starbucks now – at least for a while to penalise Costa.This morning did not go well.First of all, there is the Starbucks rewards scheme.With Costa, you have a physical card with a magnetic...
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Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Commercials Showreel is Awesome, but..
.. they still use a load of post production techniques to remove rods, puppeteers and whatnot. Which kind of defeats the object, in my book, of using puppetry and animatronics.If you have to rely on CG...
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Smartphones overtaking film & TV cameras in resolution, but not sanity
It’s silly, isn’t it?WIth the announcement of the Galaxy S5 and the Sony Xperia Z2 both capable of recording video at 4K resolution, it seems ridicilous that many current TV shows and films are still...
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Martyn’s Adventures in Coffeeland Part Two of Several Million
Starbucks.What a mess.Went in for my daily mocha and decided to try a shortbread. My Starbucks iOS Passport app had a balance of £5.55. Total was £4.80 (no, I don’t spend that much every day). Once the...
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Favourite TV advert (at the moment): McVities Sweeet (Jaffa Cakes)
Back at MPC we worked on the very popular drumming gorilla for Cadburys. I thought it was terrible, and it made me hate Phil Collins for many a year.But this, ladies and gentlemen, this is just nuts –...
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A Virgin no more.. (ooer-missus)
I’m almost at the end of my contract with Virgin Media and I’ve got to say that:1) The Tivo really is too damn slow. The UI interface is clunky, unintuitive, and the problems I had with On Demand last...
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A Ticket to Ride: Time to take public transport ticketing systems out of the...
Subtitle: Mutiny on the Trains and BusesI’m paying South West Trains and Arriva a lot of money each month for two paper tickets that grant me access to travel between Woking and Guildford.I have no...
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Getty Images’ gift to bloggers: 35 million free photos!
I’ve long thought that it’d be nice if somebody could start a Creative Commons image service that would enable bloggers such as myself the ability to use photos for little or no cost.Today, Getty...
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When will the abusive Twitter twits stop?
Believe me, I wanted to go all David Cameron on the headline there. But I won’t.I am saddened by the news that the lovely Jane Goldman has decided to quit Twitter thanks to a bunch of idiotic arsewipes...
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Accelerate your WordPress blog with Memset’s Memstore & W3 Total Cache
Great big honking disclaimer: All opinions, views, etc. are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer, Memset Ltd. We host a lot of WordPress sites at work, and I’ve been using...
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I’m confused: is this supposed to perk me up or get me tipsy?
Tasting this little beauty this evening.I will be having standby emergency beer just in case it tastes horrible. But how can the above possibly be related to this:*shrugs*
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All three seasons of Game of Thrones available on demand via Sky and NOW TV
I’m not going to go into the battle between Virgin and Sky over carrying Sky Atlantic on Virgin’s TV service. Nor am I going to go into the whole piracy debate and general availability of Game of...
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BT and Sky Installation Day! Callooh! Callay!
BT have already activated the new phone line. Just waiting for an Openreach chap (or chapess) to do something or another. Sky should be coming soon.Just look at how thin that BT Home Hub 5 is in...
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