A bit of this and a bit of that

It’s time to look at some soft furnishings for our house and one thing we need to decide on is blinds. I found some interesting ones here at Terrys Fabrics. I’m not quite sure if we’ll go for vertical blinds yet, but they seem to be a nice option. When I was a kid we [...]

Here’s an interesting bit ot trivia I got sent by email:
October 24, 1901 : First barrel ride down Niagara Falls
On this day in 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
After her husband died in the Civil War, the New York-born [...]

I’m sure I must have seen an ad on TV about Go Compare, the car insurance comparison site, so to day I thought I’d pop in and have a look to see if the insurance I was using was worth it, or if maybe I should switch to someone else. Turns out they do more [...]

It gives me great pleasure to let everyone know that I’ve managed to get my latest WordPress plugin out of the door. It’s a sidebar widget I’ve called GeoWidget that lets you add a map to your website. You an use the map for anything you like. You can show where you live, where your [...]

Sony Ericsson are running a competition called The Search where they’re looking for the best camera phone photographer of the year. The top prizes as a round the world trip, so if you think you have any great camera shots, check it out. They’re looking for photos in three categories, News, Adventure and Fashion. If [...]

I’ve shut down the ticket sales for the Kempton Fireworks website as there’s only a couple of days left and we won’t be able to get the tickets in the post in time for the weekend. It’s been a great effort and we have sold loads of tickets online, it’s been great having [...]

I’ve probably blogged about Tv-Links.com in the past. Well, I read in the news that the website has been shut down and the webmaster arrested. It will be interesting to see where this goes, especially as the site had NO ILLEGAL CONTENT actually hosted on it. Instead, it contained a number of links to other [...]

You may have noticed that I’ve just taken a few days off from blogging. I popped down to London for my birthday and haven’t really had much time to get online. I had a great birthday, we went to the British Museum, then had dinner at Yo! Sushi and finished it off with watching [...]

Have you ever noticed how laptop batteries seem to keep less of a charge as they grow older. This was a real problem in the days of NiCad batteries which have a pronounced memory effect. Batteries today as less sensitive to the issue, yet they still tend to lose their effectiveness as they get used. [...]

Iain sent me an email yesterday about a friend of his who’s in a local band and just released a record. So I thought I’d stop playing with Meet You Later (more for the social networking than the dating) and spread the word about this new band. Speaking about bands, I heard that Madonna has [...]