I’m at Katy’s this weekend and thanks to some unknown neighbours I now have internet access. Wireless networking is great and the fact that the kit works out of the box with really obvious default passwords makes life easier for everyone.

If any of you have ever signed up with www.sms.ac (intentionally not a link) make sure you stop the text alerts. I signed up as a friend had invited me too and then I kept getting messages saying that so-and-so wanted to add me as a friend. Eventually it started irritating me so […]

This was the evening’s Decisive Moment.

No not the bald chill-out monster! I bought a new phone, when I say bought obviously I mean they gave it to me for free but you understand. I had been planning on sticking with Nokia after my experience with the Panasonic X70 I got a few years ago I had promised never […]

прощание, 再见, goodbye. I’m afraid I’ve done something that I feel a bit bad about. I have blocked the entire of China and Russia from this site. No I have not become a xenophobe but as I do not know anyone in either of those countries and the majority of this site’s […]

I’m currently in the process of backing up my DVD collection on to my Xbox. It’s a slow process, it takes about half an hour to extract the content from the DVD then a further three to four hours to encode it to an AVI. Bearing all of this in mind I find […]

I had been expecting a courier to arrive on Thursday to deliver my GPS and the new harddrive for my xbox. By three he still hadn’t arrived and I had to go and collect Katy from the station, amazingly it wasn’t delivered while I was out. It turned up a while after we […]

I currently pay about £24 a month for a 1MB connection with a 50:1 contention. I’ve just found a 2Mb connection with the same contention ratio for £15 a month, or a 2MB connection with a 30:1 contention for £22 all of which are unlimited connections. It just shows it pays to shop […]

Well it appears I now have internet access on the move, albeit limited to 4Mb a month (or an extortionate phonebill). I’m writing this on my PowerBook which is connected via Bluetooth to my mobile which is in turn connected via GPRS to the web. I’m very impressed, not only does it actually […]

This week I chipped my Xbox. If you’re thinking about doing it I would recommend it. I used the Xapt3r with an Xecuter 3 CE and the X3 Control Panel. I was very nervous about it because I would have felt stupid if it had all gone horribly wrong but a bit of […]