Had my SonyEricsson K700i for a bit now, and what I great phone – does everything I want a phone to do, and seems to have been designed really nicely. The repeating alarm is great – you select what days you want it to go off (so I don’t need to remember to switch if […]

It’s funny how the busyness of the trains’ vary. All this week I have arrived at my local station at about the same time, got the same train into work, amd arrived at Leeds statation at about the same time. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were fairly quiet – plenty of Metros left, platform not too […]

Another film bites the dust – Hideous Kinky with Kate Winslet amoungst others. Not bothered to do a full review as there is nothing really to say; I guess I suffered for not having read the book first, but found the whole film pretty uninspiring. Beautiful photography and costume, but no real character development (or […]

Snow. SNOW! Only halfway through November and it’s snowing. Ok, so it’s not going to settle, but it was definitely snowing when I went outside just now. It has been blooming parky all week, and that just proves it! Actually, it has settled a little – the lawn had a light dusting of white when […]

My Linux for Playstation 2 kit arrived this morning – huge box containing a hard disk and network adaptor, USB keyboard and mouse, and a monitor cable. A short afternoon’s playing, and my PS2 is now running Linux – I was installing some development tools onto it from this box even while it was running […]

OOO – exciting, exciting!! First trailer for Star Wars III (Revenge of the Sith) has been posted online! I found it via Lucas Online, but I’m sure it’s elsewhere too. Ok, so it’s still 6 months away, but it is looking quite good…

Just discovered a new aide-memoire for the New Testament letters – God’s Electric Power Company (Galations, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians.) Not bad, but it doesn’t beat my method: So, there’s the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – just have to remember that), then Joan of ARC (Acts, Romans and Corinthians (1 and 2)), then […]

By the way – a couple of interesting bargains: Canon EOS 300D – Canon are doing a 100 cashback/rebate on any 300D bought between now and Jan 31. I guess this excludes ones from eBay though! Playstation for Linux – had a price chop (actually in March) to 150 Euro, but if you have any […]

Just had a lovely evening doing some fireworks in the back garden. I can barely remember the last time I did fireworks in the back garden, but I reckon it’s of the order of 20 years ago! Obtained said pyrotechnics from Asda (who bizarrely sell fireworks which, in the main, have a minimum viewing distance […]

Seems to me like 2004 has been the year of going digital for me. I retired my faithful filofax after around 11 years of service, having at one point believed I would never manage without it. This perception was wrong, of course – I wouldn’t manage without a system of writing down addresses, dates, notes, […]