Needed: a Kettle with a Progress Bar

I had an AMAZING idea this morning. You know kettles, right? They’re great, aren’t they? Thing is, you don’t know how long they take to boil – unless you time it or something. Imagine if they had a computer-style progress bar on them! Wouldn’t that be fantastic? You’d never more have to guess how long left before you have a coffee! You’d know if you still had time to nip to the loo or not! You’d be able to manage …

Spectrum Emulator for the iPhone!

Today brings the release of ZXGamer -a ¬¨¬£1.19 ZX Spectrum emulator for the iPhone!  It currently plays only three games (included) – Batty, Cyclone and Exolon, and it runs a bit slow at the moment, but it’s a start! iPhone 3GS only, at the moment. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from deKay’s posterous

iTunes Insight

(shamelessly stolen from The Jim Manka-Taylor Project) Directions: Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrassing it is. How many songs: 1559 Sort by song title First song: Absolute Beginners – David Bowie Last song: 1984 – David Bowie Sort by time Shortest Song: Hello, MOM – Kyle Gabler Longest Song: These Dreams – Robbie Williams Sort by album First Song: Aladdin Sane – David Bowie Last Song: World …

Speeling foor chilldrun

A friend of mine bought my daughter some soft play blocks recently. You know the sort of thing – with numbers and pictures and the alphabet on them. Only one block had a couple of mistakes on them: In fact, two of the other sides had “Water-melon” and “X’mas tree” on them, both of which I’d say were also incorrect.

Helping the police with their enquiries

A policeman came and knocked on my door today. He wanted to ask me a few questions. He asked if I was [my name], and I said yes. Then he asked if I had anything to do with [local football club]. Obviously not! It was very odd. Apparently, there was an incident at said club yesterday, and they needed to question someone else who has my (pretty uncommon, especially locally) name, but I’m the only person in Norfolk with my …