30 June 2023
Happy Birthday Herta!
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The inventor of the Currywurst, Herta Charlotte Heuwer, 30 June 1913 - 3 july 1999...
10 September 2022
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06 February 2021
Claise th' border!!!!....
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Scottish border blockade: SNP threatens police checks on roads leading from England....
23 February 2018
Traffic reports. Not.
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Local radio presenters who hit the traffic report button then subject us to their inane babble while I'm sat in a queue of traffic waiti...
03 September 2015
Gasgasbones strap
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20 April 2015
S.M.A.R.T. Status : failing....
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Last week, when I was importing some photos into my MacBook Pro, it just locked up and after several attempts to restart it, I eventuall...
03 July 2014
As hard as I look...
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The 'house number' style CAPTCHA puzzles are getting more difficult...
20 May 2014
Selling 101 : Atishoo, atishoo...
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If you're going to sell The Big Issue, throwing them down and saying "Fuck this, I can't be bothered anymore" is not going...
29 April 2014
A year on...
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Seems I have been a little lax in keeping my readership updated with various happenings. Life is still going on and the only real update I c...
19 March 2013
MacBook Woes with some to's and fro's..
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So after seven, or is it eight, visits to my local Apple Store with no resolution of the freezing problem I was experiencing on my MacBook...
21 February 2013
MacBook back....
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Been having some issues with the late 2008 MacBook recently. It had started to freeze up at odd times since installing Lion and refusing to ...
21 December 2012
21/12/12
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The end of the world didn't happen, so I wish you all....
19 October 2012
New for 2012
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Fed up of going for a slash and finding someone has finished off your pint of Bitter & Twisted? You can now leave your pint, safe in the...
19 April 2012
Still here....
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Still being a curmudgeon...
24 June 2011
2012 ticket fiasco...
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Seems a lot of folk are getting blown out/off trying to buy tickets for the 2012 London Olympics... ...yes it does look a bit like a Simps...
11 June 2011
Ice balls II...
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...and the quest for that perfect lump of ice to go into the gin & tonic goes on. ••• The Muji ice ball mould (posted a few days ago) h...
Another new gin, chin chin...
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From the makers of the world champ vodka , comes a Gin... The Most Complicated Gin in the World... It is a relatively unknown fact that g...
High Dynamic Range photos
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Have been experimenting with a bit of 'pseudo' HDR tweakery on my photographs using a bit of software called HDRtist Pro (£19.99). ...
06 June 2011
Ice balls...
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Silicone Ice Ball mould
11 May 2011
Bargain...
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Microsoft has paid £5 Billion for Skype... Obviously nobody told them they can download it for free from the website..
08 May 2011
Intermittnet...
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in·ter·mitt·net /ˌintərˈmitnət/ Adjective: Internet service prone to a being less than stable at irregular intervals; not steady; argh On...
24 March 2011
Global conspiracy...
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Why do clothing manufacturers insist on stitching product care/information labels into the side seams of t-shirts? 'Seams' they alw...
21 March 2011
New gin in the cabinet…
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Sipsmith Gin
Spotted - new Mini mini SUV
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21 January 2011
Life in the fast (mobile broadband) lane...
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Picked up a 3 Mobile MiFi the other day for use with a recently acquired Wi-Fi only iPad. Visiting the in-laws at the moment where any mob...
14 January 2011
Grip, grip, grip....
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So the Nokians have proved their worth. We've had snow and quite a bit too. The tyres gave so much grip it was almost like having four ...
06 January 2011
32000' over Glasgow. Release bombs!!!!
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So its a travelling I will go once again. On the road to Las Vegas and CES for the second year even though I said last year might be my f...
Filthwizardry
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From our Motoring Editor, Buster Bloodvessel... Don't go to kwikfit! £468.00 for exhaust! Guy lifted car (engine running) we walked ...
22 November 2010
Nokians fitted...
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Back in February I posted about trying to get my hands on some winter tyres. Well, the long wait is over - I had a set of Nokian WR G2 wint...
17 August 2010
Mitchell & Webb...
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...poke fun at modern computer stores.... Good job I'd finished my sake...
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