Technology


The Thrill of Going Viral!

Posted on June 14, 2012

Check this out......my recent post regarding TV commentators and pundits went viral.... well sort of anyway and I found it kind of exciting. This was on the back of one of my Facebook friends (Andy Ogden) who found it sufficiently funny/interesting to re-post it as a link, meaning that people in Taiwan and Hong Kong read it and passed it on to others. I am not likely to start challenging Mark Zuckerberg here, but a few hundred page views in a ...

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Introducing The “Vac Mach Air” Vacuum Cleaner!!

Posted on May 8, 2012

Since living on my own during the last four years or so, I have found that the Holy Grail in my life is the discovery of a vacuum cleaner that actually carries out the task its elaborate brand name gives it. Of course, I know as well as anyone that the simple solution to vacuum cleaning is to go out and spend over three hundred pounds on a Dyson, but because I live in a modest two bedroom house, it would feel a bit like buying a Ferrari and ...

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38 Degrees Website

Posted on April 5, 2012

My old friend Colin sent me a link the other day to a website called 38 degrees, it is an excellent site that makes it easy to register your signature against intrusive or corrupt legislation. The most recent link informs us of the latest attempt by the government (Labour tried it a few years back) to implement a law that assumes that we are all guilty of being sex offenders or potential terrorists until being proven not guilty. This is a law ...

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Joining in With Cheating Britain at the Broughton Quiz

Posted on March 20, 2012

Wherever I have looked in the last week or so there has been cheating going on, whether it is in politics, sport or in social benefits, it is everywhere you look. Just as common are the holier than thou individuals who lambaste cheats when they are doing the same or far worse in fact. The amount of people I hear tearing in to "benefit scroungers" whilst they are themselves, doing cash in the hand weekend jobs or paying builders in twenty pound ...

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Siri is an Imposter!

Posted on March 16, 2012

I don't know how many of you have the latest iPhone yet, but those of you who do will have been introduced to Siri, a voice activation device that is supposed to make life so much better for us folk who desperately want to know what the weather is going to be like in Paris this weekend. When I first talked to Siri, I thought he was a solid bloke, he just seemed like the sought of guy who would always give me a firm handshake and offer sound, if ...

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