We ordered an MSI Wind laptop (rebadged and sold in the UK as a PC World Advent 4211 Netbook) for work recently, and it arrived yesterday so I’ve had a chance to have a play with it. My very first impressions were quite poor. It looked very nice, is small, light and seems reasonably well built. However, it wouldn’t power up. Every time it tried to boot past the POST screen, the hard drive squealed and it switched itself off. …
Everyone likes to know about places they can’t go, don’t they? It’s normal curiosity. That’s why kids explore empty houses and caves and wells and stuff, isn’t it? North Korea is one of those places. I know very little about it, apart from that it’s The Evil Half Of Korea. Or so I thought. Thanks to a random post on a forum I read, I was made aware of this fascinating set of videos. A US journalist gets into the …
So my most excellent wife and I went to see the midwife today, and all the results from previous tests are fine and everything seems great. Then we got to hear the baby’s heartbeat through a device that looked like it was designed for detecting pipes in walls. It was very exciting! What I didn’t expect, was that inside my wife is an actual game of Pac-man. I imagined the heartbeat noise would be sort of badumbadumbadumbadum, but in reality …
At Pop on the Wii, on advanced mode. However, my time of 84 minutes is somewhat longer than the top score of around a minute and a half.  Clearly some cheating going on.
That there’s a Norwich Puppet Man website! Amazing! Norwich Puppet Man It even has videos!
Thankfully, I was busy and didn’t notice my always-on-silent mobile buzzing like a bee. Today’s assailant was 0845 4122700, and once again, here’s the WhoCallsMe? link.
My work PC desktop, at least. I’m a well proud dad-to-be, see.
I seem to recall that round the time of release, Bulletproof Monk got some good press and pretty decent reviews. So imagine my surprise when not only was the film not really what I was expecting in terms of content (I think I mixed it up with Equilibrium), but also it wasn’t as good as I thought it was supposed to be either. I’ve never been a fan of “mis-matched partners” films. Here, Tibetan monk Chow-Yun Fat and New York …
I got yet another call from one of those scamming companies trying to sell me a mobile phone contract. Would you all just leave me alone now? I’ve no interest in taking out a contract with any company who feels the need to ring me at 3am or 11pm. Or any time, in fact. This post was brought to you by the number 01254 277069, and the letters F and U. Oh, and here’s the Who Calls Me? page for …
Well, sort of. The LG Secret can withstand fire and knocks and stabbing and all sorts of other abuse, as this video demonstrates… Click the images at the bottom for other videos. One of them is Uptown Girl. Hurrah!
Yeah, it’s another one of those numbers again. Got a call in the wee hours this morning, but didn’t answer. From the look of Who Calls Me, it’s another (or possibly the same) scamming company trying to swindle me by selling me a phone contract. 01254277054 – who calls me?
I’ve suddenly had a big influx of visitors, due to the Orange Balloon Race thing currently going on. That’s what the floating raccoon thing was for in the bottom right corner of my site. So hello to all those passing through! I’m in the race myself, as you can see:
Quite literally, look into my eyes. Vision Express finally emailed me these photos of my eyes. And they really are quite impressive!¬¨‚Ć Thankfully, there’s nothing wrong, although I wasn’t really expecting there to be. I just thought ¬¨¬£10 for some ace photos of inside me was a bargain!
They don’t make films like this any more. Well, not often. In the 80’s, they made loads of “zany madcap chase” films, but you just don’t see them these days. Rat Race is silly. It’s over the top nonsense. Every situation is contrived, the few special effects are awful, and I have no idea why they cast Rowan Atkinson as an Italian. But… it was funny. Some bits were absolute genius too – the build up of Jon Lovitz’s character …
