Nearly bought a Drobo… but didn’t

Was looking for a way to get a large amount of protected storage, would hate to loose anything valuable like iTunes, iPhoto library due to a hard disk failure. At the moment everything is stored on a couple of 500Gb USB drives & the Iomega one (with a really bright blue LED) is a bit [...]

Asda Photo Service – Store Collection

Wanted to order a few photo prints, could use my Samsung photo printer but I noticed that Asda are now doing in-store collection. Order on-line, pick up in an hour.

So setup an account (10 free photos, but only for home delivery), uploaded some images painlessly & selected the local store. 11:26am, e-mail to say order [...]

It’s a boy!

Labour started last night, although the wife waited until the morning before waking me up. And had the decency to hold onto her waters until we got to the hospital. Couldn’t have that on my new car seat!
Born 7:16pm, 8lb 12oz, 54cm long.
Edit: Jacob Lawson

Colour Variation Exclusive – WTF?

After reading the ‘news‘ that yet another operator has signed up an EXCLUSIVE version of an otherwise widely available handset, I had to wonder who in their right mind makes their mobile phone purchasing decision purely on the basis of colour? CPW has an exclusive on the Curve 8900 Titanium, which looks exactly the same [...]

Orange Shop, bang upto date

There’s no excuse, it’s been February for nearly two days. No blaming the snow. The Orange Shop obviously hasn’t got a clue what month it is. And have a big banner proclaiming “the Orange shop January sale”. Well done guys (& gals). Even worse, when you click to unrap some past-it’s-use-by-date–and-smelling-funny ‘deal’, you get a [...]