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Dr Who: What Are You Doing Here?

Chris — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:17:08 +0000

Surely the greatest labour of love to ever find its way onto YouTube. I watched for eight minutes with jaw slowly dropping lower to the floor. It takes three minutes just to get through the old black and white Doctor Who incarnations. Of course, Jon Pertwee turns it into “What the blazes are you doing [...]

Philips Warm Intimate Massager review

Chris — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:29:42 +0000

The Times seemed to get something of a scoop with its review of the Philips Warm Intimate Massager - and as you’d expect, as soon as they’re available, you’ll get a review here. Would you expect anything less from me, review fans? Apparently it’s going to be on sale in Boots and Selfridges, which is [...]

Google Analytics integration with Adsense data

Chris — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:56:38 +0000

Several blogs have picked up on a post which appeared on a blog called The GoogleCache a couple of weeks ago, detailing the author’s experience with a new facility to integrate Google Analytics with Adsense. Oddly, the post disappeared, but you can still get it by subscribing to the site’s RSS feed. In case you [...]

One month away…

Chris — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:38:52 +0000

Well, I’m one month away from the kickoff date for my new venture, Business Marketing Online, and we open sales for the first product, the Business Marketing Online Insider Programme, next week (8 September). I’ll be blogging its progress here - we have no subscribers yet (because we haven’t started sales, duh) but a lot [...]

GB Olympics Medals Totals

Chris — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:04:46 +0000

This is simply one of those things which I was curious about, and found it tricky to find online. Eventually I did. So I present the data here in the hope that it might save you an equally long search. Year Venue Gold Silver Bronze Total Position 1948 London 3 14 6 23 12th 1952 Helsinki 1 2 8 11 18th 1956 Melbourne 6 7 11 24 8th 1960 Rome 2 6 12 20 12th 1964 Tokyo 4 12 2 18 10th 1968 Mexico City 5 5 3 13 10th 1972 Munich 4 5 9 18 12th 1976 Montreal 3 5 5 13 13th 1980 Moscow 5 7 9 21 9th 1984 Los Angeles 5 10 22 37 11th 1988 Seoul 5 10 9 24 12th 1992 Barcelona 5 3 12 20 13th 1996 Atlanta 1 8 6 15 36th 2000 Sydney 11 10 7 28 10th 2004 Athens 9 9 12 30 9th I suspect that Great Britain’s Olympic medals totals - and position overall in the [...]

Whale watching in Victoria

Chris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:10:57 +0000

Another (partial) triumph for TripAdvisor: just back from a fabulous whale-watching trip from Victoria BC (where we’re on holiday), and the company we chose (from seemingly dozens) must surely be the best whale watching tour operator in the area. We shortlisted Eagle Wing Tours from the literature at Tourist Information, and then were delighted to [...]

Acer Aspire One - Sunday Times recommended

Chris — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:39:56 +0000

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 is released [...]

Friends Provident Trophy Final 2008 tickets and details

Chris — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:47:15 +0000

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

Chris — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:30:25 +0000

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 on this [...]

QD - where I buy my flat caps

Chris — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:46:35 +0000

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?