Archive for July 2008

Acer Aspire One – Sunday Times recommended

13 July 2008 | Category: Gadgetry and IT, News/Media/Sport

The Sunday Times today featured a review of the new generation of “solid-state” notebook PCs, which are faster and more reliable than traditional hard drive-toting laptops. Below I’ve tracked down the models they’ve reviewed, and given you links to the product information pages at Amazon UK. BEST BUY Acer Aspire One This great little machine [...]



Friends Provident Trophy Final 2008 tickets and details

5 July 2008 | Category: News/Media/Sport

Cricket eh? The final balls had hardly been bowled in the Friends Provident Trophy semi-finals than people were probably hitting the net to find out about tickets and details for the final. I was one of them, but boy was it hard work. So with any luck, this quick blog post will clear up what [...]



Hot new album alert

2 July 2008 | Category: Entertainment

Thanks to Aether Everywhere (and StumbleUpon) for this brilliant game. Generate your own random album (it’s up to you to decide what the musical genre might be). 1 – Choose a name for your band from the random page which comes up here 2 – Choose an album title by selecting the final random quote [...]



QD – where I buy my flat caps

2 July 2008 | Category: Entertainment

Yeah yeah, it’ll probably turn out to be some sort of viral advertising, although somehow I doubt it was dreamed up by Tendring District Council. But whatever, it’s well funny, innit?