Steve Jobs has just announced a screenless new Mac mini starting at $499. This thing is tiny - 3 inches high and about 6 inches square. I am watching MacMerc's great coverage of Macworld 2005 and Steve Jobs has just announced a screenless new Mac mini starting at $499. This thing is tiny! 3 inches high and the same...

Just popped into my inbox - this time the scammer is using a real life event, an air-crash in Alaska, to tart the story up. Just popped into my inbox. this time the scammer is using a real life event, an air-crash in Alaska, to tart the story up. What I find disgusting about this is that there are relatives of the...

Paula and I celebrated the new year by ourselves, first time ever I think and a good experience! Just after midnight we went out to the back of the garden to watch all the fireworks around Croydon - there were a lot and it was very very loud. I sort of had a feeling that this was what the town must have sounded like...

When Paula and I were in New Zealand in November there was an earthquake of 7.2 offshore to the SW in the Tasman sea. On the 23rd Dec an 8.1 struck the same area. In hindsite one can say that this was obviously a portent for what was to come offshore of Indonesia. As I write this the official death toll is over...

I just received a tube through the post at work from a company called Radford Wallis. Thing is I don't recall having ever dealt with them so my suspicions were aroused. Maybe I got on a list from a previous company who had pitched to me. The label declares "Stocking fillers from Radford Wallis" so I gingerly opened...

We are off with our good friends Liz and Chris (Kick's guitarist) to see Muse at Earls Court tonight and they are supported by SoulWax and the Zutons! Should be excellent evening entertainment as Muse really is the band of the moment. The four of us saw them at Wembley last year and they were sensational. We are...

Very recently I decided that I should start going to the gym again as I was getting a little tubby here and there. I had been using a gym in Croydon but I have also been a member of the gym at my place of work for the past two years without using it, so I decided that the work gym was the best option. The gym has...

I'm hardly back for a few minutes and I discover that in my absense the Croydon Parking issue has raised its ugly head again. This time one of the local papers, The Croydon Guardian, carried a huge front page piece from Kerry McQueeney entitled "Parking Mad". Apparently a shortfall of over £500,000 in Croydons...

I have finally got all (I think) of our Around the World in 18 days trip photographs on line at Pixagogo. They are split in to four Albums - Los Angeles, Fiji, New Zealand and Singapore. Enjoy - we did!

Were home! Just been round the world in 18 days. Shattered but happy and very very chilled. Paula and I will be doing a full write up here on our travels through LA, Fiji, New Zealand and Singapore. I have already uploaded over 500 images into our gallery but not yet built an album for them so you will have to wait...

Those outside of London may not have heard of my favorite radio station - XFM. The breakfast show's Christian O'Connel has organised a competition for under 18's to send in covers of songs they have performed in a Rock School attempt to produce Britians upcoming new supergroup. The winners will eb on stage next...

The Dead Milk men are rehearsing for the forthcoming Dave Schulthise tribute concerts in Philadelphia. Dean sent me a couple of links to a citypaper.net article about their rehearsals and some little know snippets about Dead Milkmen albums. I won't be able to make the concerts on the 21st and 22st of November...