There are some techie things I love because they just do their job so well, and some I just like for the sake of the technology itself, but I have one glaring and increasingly embarrassing blind spot with gadgets: the mobile phone. And last week I found out just how big that blind spot is.
Entries Tagged as 'Doh!'
A new toy
May 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on A new toy · Technology
I started playing with a new toy using a new tool this week – Google Reader. OK, so its not new. Its not even new to me: I had a look at it soon after it started but then put it aside. The real anoraks out there can form an orderly queue while I assume […]
Foiled again
May 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Foiled again · Life
It was a cunning plan. I have a day off today, extending the weekend to a four-day break, and I thought I would beat the usual bank holiday rush by not taking all my accumulated rubbish to the tip over the weekend and doing it today. It must have been a good idea because hundreds […]
Tags: Doh!
Local Election Candidates
April 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Politics, Technology
I may have mentioned in the past how bloody useless the Crawley Borough Council website is. This week’s example of uselessness is the obscurity of the list of nominations for the local elections.
Double helpings
February 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Crawley Town are apparently on the TV for a second time this week, when Ebbsfleet visit the Broadfield Stadium on Thursday evening. They were on Setanta Sunday night, playing Forest Green. That was a bit of a disappointment though – the previous two games were wins of 8-0 and 4-0 and then when they played […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Doh!·Football
An easy mistake?
January 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics
Hats off to Tom Watson for pointing this out! It appears that his local (Tory) MEPs have a bit of trouble recognising their own constituency.
Tags: Birmingham·Doh!·Idiots·Tories
Atomic
January 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
I just caught the end of a programme on TV tonight which really made me wish I had sat down and watched it from the begining. It was on BBC Four and was called Atom. Fortunately it is repeated at 2:00am tomorrow so I have the V+ box set up to record it.
Irony
January 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Irony · Life
As the first comment on this story points out, the question in the ‘Analysis’ section has kind of got overtaken by events…
Tags: Doh!·Local Papers
Visit to the smoke
January 1st, 2008 · Comments Off on Visit to the smoke · Life
This year we decided to go up to London to see in the New Year, and we all wish that we hadn’t bothered. Â
On demand
December 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology
My broadband was playing up a bit last night. I could access some sites OK (Amazon, Flickr) but not others (BBC, Skuds.org).
Tags: Broadband·Doh!·Virgin Media
