Category: Journal

  • Contact Form Spam

    Not seen that before: This morning I received some spam through a web page. However, this was contact form spam that was promoting software to spam contact forms. ffs… I suppose at least I’m convinced the product works, unlike most of the contact form spam I receive. Not sure I’ll be following it up though.

  • Easter Sailing

    Just spent 6 great days over easter sailing along the south coast with my parents and had an awesome time! I don’t think I really saw a cloud all week, we had good wind for the most part and even got to see dolphins too! There was the odd submarine, some

  • Waste

    This morning a Toshiba displayport cable, that I had ordered from eBay arrived in the post and I was quite shocked when I opened the box. Not one thick booklet, but two – a ‘User Guide’ (WTF?) and a

  • An Earthquake, A Tsunami and a Nuclear Emergency…

    .. this may be a new definition of having a bad day. So the reactor safety systems: A BWR is similar to a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) in that the reactor will continue to produce heat even after the fission reactions have stopped, which could make a core damage incident possible if there were not…

  • SkullCandy (SkullCrappy?) headphones

    The saga continues: So eventually after much debate, I was eventually sent a replacement for my crap SkullCandy headphones that kept electrocuting me (really not fun, and then, to top it off, they died)… they didn’t have the same model so

  • Skullcandy In-Ear Electric shocks: not fun.

    Gemma bought me a pair of Skullcandy Full Metal Jacket headphones for Christmas which were gratefully received – they sounded great and they had a mic / button to control my iPhone. A couple of weeks later and they weren’t going so great: I was being electrocuted by my headphones! One of the buds would…

  • Formula One

    It is astonishing how such a group of well meaning individuals can truly screw something up – I was looking forward to this as my family used to go to Donnington to watch the BTCC and MotoGP when I was younger (my father’s company sponsored a couple of different manufacturers which meant frequent corporate hospitality…

  • Random music that made me smile..

    This is what happens when you mash the last 30 years of pop songs that all use the same 4 chords together! Properly random song by ‘The Axis of Awesome’

  • Round the Island ’09

    Well it was another good race round the island this year – we didn’t do quite as well, but it was just as eventful! We started at 0750 on Saturday morning heading west from Cowes with very little wind and an easterly tide, but staying south and close in to the shore we managed to…