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369 posts published since September 2003

• 30 April 2012: My View: Cambridge City Council Elections 2012 – Queen Edith’s Ward
• 1 February 2012: iTunes Match – what happened when I tried it
• 23 December 2011: Cineworld: run by robots who just don’t care
• 14 December 2011: My Top Ten Movies of 2011
• 15 October 2011: Why you shouldn’t leave your passwords in your Will
• 24 August 2011: Our Experience of Moving House in Cambridge
• 9 August 2011: Virgin Media “Customer Service” lives up to its reputation
• 24 June 2011: In Defence of the Olympic Tickets System
• 19 April 2011: Brit Floyd, Cambridge Corn Exchange, April 2011
• 3 April 2011: The Unthanks, Cambridge Junction 2, April 2011
• 13 March 2011: TV Comedy Spin-off Books From The Eighties!
• 27 February 2011: Spamalot: my favourite scene
• 23 February 2011: Big upload speed increase from Virgin Media cable internet
• 8 February 2011: Album of the Year so far
• 19 December 2010: My Favourite Apps of 2010
• 17 December 2010: My Favourite Sporting Moments of 2010 (Part 2)
• 16 December 2010: My Favourite Sporting Moments of 2010 (Part 1)
• 15 December 2010: My Favourite Gadgets of 2010
• 14 December 2010: My Favourite Online Videos of 2010
• 13 December 2010: My Favourite Websites of 2010
• 12 December 2010: My Favourite TV Programmes of 2010 (Part 2)
• 11 December 2010: My Favourite Blogs of 2010 (Part 3)
• 10 December 2010: My Favourite Live Performances of 2010
• 9 December 2010: My Favourite Radio Programmes of 2010
• 8 December 2010: My Favourite Movies of 2010
• 7 December 2010: My Favourite Blogs of 2010 (Part 2)
• 6 December 2010: My Favourite TV Programmes of 2010 (Part 1)
• 5 December 2010: My Favourite Magazines of 2010
• 4 December 2010: My Favourite Albums of 2010
• 3 December 2010: My Favourite Tweeters of 2010
• 2 December 2010: My Favourite Podcasts of 2010
• 1 December 2010: My Favourite Blogs of 2010 (Part 1)
• 23 November 2010: How to get the screen locked in position on your iPad
• 14 October 2010: Delete and move to the next message with GMail keyboard shortcuts
• 11 October 2010: A nice juicy Grocer’s Apostrophe example
• 25 September 2010: A list of brothers who have played football in the First Division (or Premier League)
• 31 August 2010: Hat tip to Nintendo
• 20 August 2010: Photo highlights of our Canadian holiday
• 2 August 2010: Ten Things I Liked About The Folk Festival This Year
• 21 July 2010: Texaco Championship Fantasy Football 2010/2011
• 12 July 2010: Building a tiny bookcase/bookshelf hi-fi
• 28 June 2010: I’d rather have listened to James Corden
• 30 May 2010: First thoughts on the iPad
• 23 May 2010: New website for Essex golf teacher
• 20 May 2010: New Panasonic Breadmakers launched
• 3 May 2010: Why I’m voting for Julian Huppert
• 18 April 2010: Environment, Sustainability and the Food Supply Challenge
• 17 April 2010: Oh no. I’m going to miss the Doncaster match.
• 25 March 2010: Half Man Half Biscuit, The Junction, Cambridge review
• 3 March 2010: 6Music: get it while it lasts
• 27 February 2010: The odd tale of Alphascript Publishing and Betascript Publishing
• 19 February 2010: Your prospective MP’s vision for Cambridge
• 18 February 2010: Woo. Just had 50Mb/sec internet installed
• 28 January 2010: So, it’s the iPad is it?
• 27 January 2010: Apple “Tablet” Launch – live blogs and coverage
• 19 January 2010: Exclusive: full details of Apple’s forthcoming launch
• 18 January 2010: Cambridge University 800th Anniversary Finale Lightshow
• 17 January 2010: Cambridge Constituency Boundaries for the 2010 General Election
• 10 January 2010: Cherry Hinton Hall Park in the snow with my GH1
• 2 January 2010: People don’t read any more
• 1 January 2010: I can’t escape (my music in 2009)
• 31 December 2009: The Decade’s 20 Most Memorable Moments in Sport: Part 5
• 30 December 2009: The Decade’s 20 Most Memorable Moments in Sport: Part 4
• 29 December 2009: The Decade’s 20 Most Memorable Moments in Sport: Part 3
• 28 December 2009: The Decade’s 20 Most Memorable Moments in Sport: Part 2
• 27 December 2009: The Decade’s 20 Most Memorable Moments in Sport: Part 1
• 26 December 2009: My 5 favourite movies of the decade (finally)
• 25 December 2009: My 10 favourite movies of the decade
• 24 December 2009: The ones which didn’t quite make the top 10 of my movies of the decade
• 23 December 2009: The middle 10 of my favourite movies of the decade
• 22 December 2009: Another 10 favourite movies of the decade
• 21 December 2009: My 50 favourite movies of the decade
• 20 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.1
• 19 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.2
• 18 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.3
• 17 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.4
• 16 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.5
• 15 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.6
• 14 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.7
• 13 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.8
• 12 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.9
• 11 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.10
• 10 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.11
• 9 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.12
• 8 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.13
• 7 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.14
• 6 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.15
• 5 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.16
• 4 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.17
• 3 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.18
• 2 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.19
• 1 December 2009: Albums of the Decade: No.20
• 26 November 2009: Fix for Google Reader “You don’t have permission to view this feed”
• 22 November 2009: My 20 Favourite Albums of the Decade
• 30 October 2009: A little bit of artistic magic
• 23 October 2009: Review: Monty Python at the Albert Hall: Not The Messiah
• 15 October 2009: The Light at the End of the Tunnel
• 4 October 2009: Another “Eureka Moment”. Can they do this?
• 27 September 2009: “Your AdWords Account Suspended Due To Repeated Site Quality Violations”
• 13 September 2009: Documenting a clean install of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
• 11 September 2009: Natalie Williams at Alimentum, Cambridge
• 2 September 2009: Prefab Sprout – new album (September 2009)
• 23 August 2009: Learning to paint and take photos in France
• 12 August 2009: Why I bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1
• 30 July 2009: Stage 2 gets under way
• 29 July 2009: Sandwich Toaster deals at Amazon UK
• 4 July 2009: Michel Thomas Foundation Course in Spanish – 52% off!
• 26 June 2009: Steven Wells RIP goes out with spooky Jacko reference
• 14 June 2009: Dawn on the Telly!
• 14 June 2009: Jason Dozzell returns to Portman Road
• 13 June 2009: “Thriller” at Elvyn Richards Hall Cabaret 1984
• 6 June 2009: Most embarrassing Labour result of the day
• 31 May 2009: Who are the ten best cricketers of all time?
• 23 May 2009: GeekChart – more pointless fun
• 23 May 2009: A Decimal Point
• 20 May 2009: Cheap Wii MotionPlus? Looks like Amazon’s the place
• 17 May 2009: Morrissey at Cambridge Corn Exchange gig review
• 11 May 2009: Apple Time Capsule – cheap at the price
• 10 May 2009: Sky HD remote control and Yamaha YSP receiver
• 7 May 2009: Star Trek movie – great. Mainly.
• 17 April 2009: All Aboard the MisGuided Bus at last!
• 15 April 2009: In The Loop – hilarious
• 10 April 2009: Looking for the best sit-down Chinese restaurant in Cambridge?
• 10 April 2009: Peter Alliss – probably fatter than Pavarotti
• 10 April 2009: The Boat That Rocked
• 8 April 2009: ABC at the Royal Albert Hall review
• 27 March 2009: The Damned United
• 21 March 2009: Tweeting from Portman Road
• 10 March 2009: 4-20mA Aerospace Widgets news
• 9 March 2009: VAT, the Flat Rate scheme, AdWords, AdSense and confusion
• 1 March 2009: Champion Larch Ditherers
• 14 January 2009: MacBook Pro power cable splits and frays
• 8 January 2009: Compilation of 2008
• 22 December 2008: Sky HD box shows FAILED a lot, and broken picture
• 22 December 2008: 2nd Gen iPod Nano Red gets red hot
• 21 December 2008: Best of 2008. No arguments.
• 17 December 2008: Best live band in the world
• 10 December 2008: Say it with Tommy. Or Ben.
• 27 November 2008: Engineering articles from the 1990s
• 11 November 2008: Mini Coyote Speed Camera Detector
• 9 November 2008: Our favourite Chinese takeaway in Cambridge
• 4 November 2008: Business cards to get you noticed
• 23 October 2008: Your complete Half Man Half Biscuit information solutions provider
• 27 September 2008: Dr Who: What Are You Doing Here?
• 6 September 2008: Philips Warm Intimate Massager review
• 4 September 2008: Google Analytics integration with Adsense data
• 3 September 2008: One month away…
• 13 August 2008: GB Olympics Medals Totals
• 7 August 2008: Whale watching in Victoria
• 13 July 2008: Acer Aspire One – Sunday Times recommended
• 5 July 2008: Friends Provident Trophy Final 2008 tickets and details
• 2 July 2008: Hot new album alert
• 2 July 2008: QD – where I buy my flat caps
• 25 June 2008: SEOClass Edinburgh
• 22 June 2008: My music: I really don’t know what to say
• 31 May 2008: Broooooce at the Emirates
• 28 May 2008: Harry Potter and the Big Coincidence
• 27 May 2008: As many questions as answers, probably
• 10 May 2008: Ebbsfleet Utd’s Big Day Out ends happily
• 6 May 2008: Some statistics about Ipswich Town’s season
• 24 April 2008: Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy Appetite going cheap
• 27 March 2008: Cult of Apple? Cult of Freebies, more like.
• 19 March 2008: Yay! CSI: Ambleside!
• 16 March 2008: Nintendo Wii Fit: review and UK pre order
• 15 March 2008: Some of the images we use to indicate our commitment to “green”
• 28 February 2008: More taxpayer-funded misGuided Bus PR puffery
• 27 February 2008: First news on Cambridge Folk Festival 2008
• 19 February 2008: Namechecked in the Eurostar Ebbsfleet advert!
• 15 February 2008: As Opposed To “Quite Fast”?
• 1 February 2008: Stephen Bywater says the c-word: video
• 27 January 2008: Sunday Times spellchecker replaces Mitt Romney with a more roomy candidate
• 24 January 2008: First Amongst Last Tracks
• 11 January 2008: Modern Pop Is Rubbish
• 9 January 2008: How to broadcast an event live on the web
• 8 January 2008: Kevin’s a lucky man
• 20 December 2007: What’s happened to the Danny Baker podcasts?
• 20 December 2007: Brooooooooce at the O2: Magic.
• 19 December 2007: 10 Things About The Spice Girls’ London Gig
• 6 December 2007: The Best Singles Ever.
• 1 December 2007: Spice Girls asking for trouble
• 26 November 2007: Blade Runner: “The Final Cut” at the cinema
• 22 November 2007: Bruce Springsteen European Tour 2007 Setlist
• 21 November 2007: In-car phonograms – the next big thing?
• 19 November 2007: Importing to WordPress from a text file
• 9 November 2007: Born to Jump
• 9 November 2007: The case of the disappearing login items
• 8 November 2007: Discount Booze at The Local. For selected tramps.
• 4 November 2007: They won’t thank their parents
• 2 November 2007: The true cost of that OS X Leopard Upgrade
• 30 October 2007: Web 1. Everything Else 0.
• 25 October 2007: I Useta Lover 2007-style
• 19 October 2007: How to convert email to RSS for your phone
• 15 October 2007: Radiohead trounce allcomers on Last.fm
• 11 October 2007: Radiohead In Rainbows. In 1997.
• 27 September 2007: The (Best) Little Fest in the West
• 24 September 2007: Led Zeppelin in Scotland?
• 18 September 2007: The Perils of Procrastination
• 9 September 2007: Music download services compared: a Mac user writes
• 6 September 2007: Colchester Golf Club
• 23 August 2007: Wemberlee
• 20 August 2007: Danny Baker’s All-Day Breakfast Show
• 20 August 2007: A man likes milk, now he owns a million cows
• 9 August 2007: Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics
• 8 August 2007: Mitre Championship Video
• 1 August 2007: Simpsons Avatar: Web App of the Week
• 30 July 2007: Cambridge Folk Festival 2007
• 27 July 2007: Cambridge Folk Festival – Thursday night
• 15 July 2007: Oliver Fisher lights up Loch Lomond for me
• 11 July 2007: Woo. Of course the iPhone had to go in the blender.
• 9 July 2007: Spinal Tap at Live Earth: all the links
• 3 July 2007: Best piano for a child…
• 2 July 2007: Exclusive: the iPhone Shuffle
• 30 June 2007: Pitching for the lucrative tourist market
• 27 June 2007: Imagine a film of your life soundtracked by an iPod
• 20 June 2007: Educate the voters back to the polling booths
• 13 June 2007: Effective banner ad design
• 11 June 2007: Hands-on Review: Panasonic SD-255 breadmaker – Beat the supermarkets’ cash extraction strategies
• 9 June 2007: And another thing that annoys me…
• 8 June 2007: When something’s just not important enough…
• 7 June 2007: Loopallu here I come
• 16 May 2007: Smarter smart playlists
• 14 May 2007: Children’s faces and dogs’ faeces
• 8 May 2007: Ipswich Town FC: the unofficial season review
• 24 April 2007: Motorola Surfboard SB3100 cable modem not up to 10Mb speed
• 20 April 2007: The Ipswich Town website: cost effectively maximising income and reach, of course
• 9 April 2007: Business Class, direct from London Stansted to Las Vegas: it does exist!
• 5 April 2007: All you need is Love
• 4 April 2007: Liza Minelli in Vegas: oh the glamour, darlings
• 2 April 2007: Spamalot in Las Vegas – review
• 2 April 2007: What happens in Vegas
• 15 March 2007: It’s not in Google yet.
• 14 March 2007: The Beard will be no more.
• 8 March 2007: The Kitchen Extension – Roll the Credits
• 19 February 2007: Blimey. A Letter Bomber.
• 9 February 2007: One of those seminal father-son things I guess
• 9 February 2007: That made a big difference!
• 29 January 2007: How to make a web site for your small business
• 25 January 2007: Habitat web site: the worst retail site ever?
• 21 January 2007: The Appliances of, er, Sciences
• 13 January 2007: The Extension is Finished. Now the Kitchen begins…
• 6 January 2007: The 2006 Music Anthology
• 21 December 2006: I’m not sure this guy understands the rules
• 19 December 2006: There’s a hole in my kitchen
• 14 December 2006: Google does not want structured points of reference on the web
• 14 December 2006: We hit the roof
• 9 December 2006: It’d never happen in Milton Keynes
• 1 December 2006: Up, up and away
• 1 December 2006: All the way from Tuam
• 1 December 2006: Half man, half robot
• 25 November 2006: Sweetest. Note. Ever.
• 23 November 2006: Things begin to take shape
• 18 November 2006: Webmasterworld Pubcon Las Vegas 2006: a strange world
• 8 November 2006: Where’s the grass gone?
• 2 November 2006: Quick. Fill in the hole while nobody’s looking.
• 31 October 2006: Cherry Hinton at War: brilliant!
• 30 October 2006: The Man from the Council he say …no.
• 28 October 2006: We’re having the house extended.
• 21 October 2006: Anderson and Wakeman: an odd couple
• 16 October 2006: You have reached the end of iTunes.
• 14 October 2006: Spamalot London Review*
• 11 October 2006: Wow. A quote from my publication by Charlotte Green.
• 29 September 2006: What is Magilton putting in their half-time cuppa?
• 28 September 2006: We have to hear that question from them, now
• 25 September 2006: Healthy Start
• 19 September 2006: Don’t take Google for granted.
• 7 September 2006: MisGuided Bus: a sad day for democracy
• 5 September 2006: 43 inches – I think I got away with it
• 31 August 2006: Disneyland: still the best
• 25 August 2006: JCB Dieselmax: a landmark for new media
• 25 August 2006: Andy Green: Sports Personality of the Year!
• 22 August 2006: HD = Highly Desirable
• 18 August 2006: My new favourite online game ever
• 14 August 2006: Put yourself on a plinth yeah?
• 11 August 2006: A New Web Site Host
• 11 August 2006: Why WordPress?
• 11 August 2006: The Blog is Back!
• 24 May 2006: Gigfest!
• 22 May 2006: Eurovision, so much to answer for
• 12 May 2006: Joe Royle leaves Ipswich.
• 5 May 2006: Restaurant 22, Cambridge has a website!
• 25 April 2006: She will put us all to shame…
• 24 March 2006: Cambridge Folk Festival 2006 lineup announced
• 9 March 2006: Real-life Simpsons intro
• 4 March 2006: More British than a British thing
• 26 February 2006: Sky+ …too noisy for the bedroom?
• 11 January 2006: Cambridge Folk Festival on Google Earth!
• 9 January 2006: Baby Tips are back!
• 7 January 2006: Best Educational Items for Toddlers …Ever!
• 27 November 2005: In-car iPod – let’s do one properly!
• 23 November 2005: It started off as a match report…
• 21 November 2005: Best CDs of 2005 – a definitive list
• 20 November 2005: Onsite Advertiser Sign-up: P45s for the Ad Sales team?
• 14 November 2005: George Bush Speech cut up
• 10 November 2005: Explorer Destroyer – Switch to Firefox, Make money from Adsense
• 16 October 2005: Oneforall remote control and Sky+
• 16 September 2005: A night of shining torches
• 24 August 2005: Google Talk IM is here
• 19 August 2005: Mo Mowlam
• 8 August 2005: Robin Cook
• 7 August 2005: Ipswich Town 1 Cardiff City 0
• 6 August 2005: One more ticked off on life’s checklist
• 1 August 2005: The Girl Who Couldn’t Do Any Wrong
• 28 July 2005: Woo. Cambridge Folk Festival is back.
• 7 June 2005: Pneumatic grippers
• 5 June 2005: AutoCAD 2006 software review published
• 31 May 2005: Well I’m not exactly skinny but…
• 15 April 2005: I’ve just been told who to vote for, on the web…
• 26 February 2005: With Rupe on My Side
• 24 January 2005: Good work, Sky One
• 15 January 2005: I love clever mathematical tricks…
• 20 December 2004: Blobs? Cosmic Blobs!
• 4 December 2004: Things to make the world a better place
• 11 November 2004: Jesusland
• 11 November 2004: Steve Satan is back
• 8 November 2004: Top Three Least Favourite Footballers
• 4 November 2004: Time to go, Tony
• 29 October 2004: Naughty naughty Charlie Brooker
• 10 October 2004: Deep Joy
• 28 September 2004: No need to show Bouncebackability yet
• 25 September 2004: Bouncebackability …what else?
• 13 September 2004: We’re always top of the league, Dad
• 26 August 2004: Crappy Chicken
• 16 August 2004: One Thousand Reasons
• 10 August 2004: HR-V: top marks from me
• 10 August 2004: Solidworks 2005 review
• 5 August 2004: Visiting websites without typing
• 26 July 2004: Enter the googleDork
• 23 July 2004: Health Club update
• 20 July 2004: Ooooh I’ve joined a health club
• 15 July 2004: Fahrenheit 9/11: scary
• 7 July 2004: Comic Sans is not a font
• 6 July 2004: And then there were… not enough, actually
• 1 July 2004: Throwing out the CDs? Maybe
• 28 June 2004: Astonishing service
• 25 June 2004: Launch of CAD-Reviews.com
• 25 June 2004: Top attractions for Toddlers at Disneyland Paris
• 24 June 2004: The iTunes Music Store is good but…
• 15 March 2004: The Wheels On The Bus Cost £86 million
• 8 February 2004: iPod: cool but where’s the crossfade ability?
• 20 January 2004: Woo. Yay. The best of b3ta.
• 12 January 2004: Include RSS news in your website!
• 22 December 2003: Let them sing it for you
• 22 December 2003: Time to Smile
• 6 December 2003: Missing iDVD in Panther? No, actually
• 25 November 2003: Woo, and indeed, hoo!
• 17 November 2003: New iMac, same old lack of customer care
• 9 October 2003: Wuuuergh! Alien Invasion!
• 1 October 2003: Good work, Councillor fella
• 15 September 2003: Cinema at the end of our road
• 12 September 2003: Internet Vulnerability Profiling
• 9 September 2003: Fat Man on a Bicycle
• 3 September 2003: RSS – A Primer for Publishers and Content Providers
• 1 September 2003: Too promising to be true?
• 29 August 2003: Usable UK Railways Live Departure Boards!
• 29 August 2003: A Postcode Finder which works!
• 22 August 2003: The Case for re-opening the Cambridge to Huntingdon Railway Line
• 21 August 2003: Cheapest directory enquiries calls
• 17 August 2003: Laundry Guide for men
• 16 August 2003: Boot out the Bus
• 15 August 2003: Take the train from Cambridge to St. Ives!
• 9 August 2003: Ordinary start to the season