Motorola Surfboard SB3100 cable modem not up to 10Mb speed

With heavy heart, I’m about to say goodbye to my first, and extremely long-serving, cable modem. I can’t find a birth date for it, but I must have had it the best part of ten years, during which time Cambridge…

The Ipswich Town website: cost effectively maximising income and reach, of course

The Ipswich Town website: cost effectively maximising income and reach, of course

Fans on our mailing list were discussing the awfulness of our own (and most other football clubs’) websites. But “Premium TV provides proprietary ‘end to end’ solutions that enable content owners to cost effectively maximise income and reach through the…

Business Class, direct from London Stansted to Las Vegas: it does exist!

Business Class, direct from London Stansted to Las Vegas: it does exist!

I’ve got to the point where I could cry every time I hear friends say they’ve just paid five hundred quid or (much) more each for the privilege of hiking all the way out to Heathrow airport and flying cattle…

All you need is Love

All you need is Love

A lot of people, including me, got very excited about the Beatles’ Love CD when it came out. Wow: a remixed, remastered Stars-on-45 Fab Four Mash-Up overseen by Sir George – how exciting was that prospect? Sadly, the product didn’t…

Liza Minelli in Vegas: oh the glamour, darlings

Liza Minelli in Vegas: oh the glamour, darlings

Short of an Elvis comeback, what could be more Vegas than seeing Liza Minelli? To be honest, we assumed the tickets would all have been sold, but wandering down to Tickets2Nite on the strip at 10.30am – when it opened…

Spamalot in Las Vegas – review

Spamalot in Las Vegas – review

So after seeing Spamalot in London during the preview week last autumn (unintentionally: I just booked tickets online, not realising it wouldn’t even have “opened” when we went), guess what happened this month? We went on holiday to Las Vegas…

What happens in Vegas

What happens in Vegas

Just got back from a great week’s holiday in Las Vegas. There’ll be separate posts on some of the people and places, but for now, here are the three things we heard or saw which made us chuckle the most:…