Oh dearest iTunes, how fickle thou hadst made me. For last weeks ‘fave’ tune of mine (Madonna’s “Hung up”) has been bumped already, almost as soon as it came synchronised into my iLife. I mentioned a few weeks ago here, that for every year for as long as I can remember (even in the days [...]

I’ve just seen the most depressing sight down my local high street. Outside Wilkinsons (a.k.a “Chav-Shopping-R-Us”) was a woman in a wheelchair who had a blanket over her lap. And she was smoking a cigarette … but not in a normal way. Instead she had a silver ashtray balanced on her lap blanket, and from [...]

Yaaaay – I’ve got one! I checked the Apple discussion forums today to find that someone has posted that Regent Street had them in. One phonecall later to confirm that this was the case, and I was on the first train into town – meeting up with an iContributor Chris Presswell & his mate too, [...]

Excellent … a point of view that agrees with my own that the death of John Peel and all the tributes going for him one year one from his death are possibly going too far. Lots of emails doing the round at the moment, but here’s one which is quite novel: The following domains are [...]

I know it’s wrong, and not funny, and there are people suffering, but surely I’m not the only one who everytime hurricane Wilma gets mentioned on the news, I just find myself thinking of Fred Flintstone and him shouting “Wiiiilllmmmaa!” at the top of his voice. Right .. right? Thought so. I also need to [...]

I have to laugh … a lot. One of the guys at work (Who shall remain nameless … Issacc), talks to me on the quiet yesterday and admits that he’s thinking of starting a blog, and asks what software I use, and could I give him a few pointers. And this is the guy that [...]

What I did Wednesday: I bought the new Depeche Mode album at last (the special DVD edition), and is now on repeat on my iPod. It’s dark, deep, dreary and I love it. I also popped into the Apple Store in Regent Street to see if they had the new iPod Videos yet – they [...]

I’ve been meaning to mention for a while that I was out measuring train door widths the other day. Ever since my local TOC (South West Trains) made a big song and dance a year ago about their newly refurbished trains, and the fact that that doors opened wider, I’d been meaning to get my [...]

My god! I have an empty inbox. I can’t remember the last time that happened … and it’s the first time it’s happened since I switched to using Thunderbird instead of Outlook, and thus felt the need to celebrate by telling you all about it. And I just wondered – does anyone else not use [...]

Just popped out to get a sandwich and a drink, and “tutted” heavily under my breath as I turned the corner in a narrow corridor of the building to find a whole load of kids blocking the way .. and then only as I passed realised it was because they were all crowded round Dick [...]

Apple are doing a press launch today from San Jose, and the hot rumours are is that there will be a new kind of iPod. Have a read here for the contender list of what people think will be launched. (Things that they don’t mention though is a rumour of a Madonna branded pink iPod). [...]

I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while, ever since the day I bought it, as there is a happy story behind my new Dyson. First the technical spec – It’s a Dual Cyclone DC11 with ‘Telescope’ and it is the most bizarre thing to look at. More bizarre though is when you first [...]