A sign that Doctor Who is back to it's best?
Posted on May 01, 2010 - No comments
Over heard while out shopping today:
“If you don’t behave you’ll have to watch Doctor Who tonight.”
“But mum, I don’t like Doctor Who – it’s scary!”
Kids scared of Doctor Who? Surely a sign that at least something is right with the world.
Lego Tardis
Posted on January 09, 2009 in Lego. - Comments [2]
The BBC have just announced that the new face of Doctor Who will be Matt Smith, once David Tennant finishes his tenure at the end of the year. It was while watching the announcement that I thought about building a little Lego Tardis for my young son. He was spoilt over Christmas and got lots of Lego, and was very excited about Doctor Who.
It became quickly apparent that building a Tardis out of Lego, especially one that has more details than just a plain blue box with a light on the top, was going to be more complicated than I thought – and would require more bricks of different designs than we had.
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Little Green Men BBS
Posted on January 07, 2009 - No comments
Many years ago I used to run a small BBS called “Little Green Men”. With the advent of the internet the idea of dialing-up individual computers running in the bedrooms of like minded sysops seems rather quaint.
The Little Green Men BBS hosted a large amount of Amiga shareware (mainly from Aminet), demos and tracker modules. There was also an obligatory celebrity pictures areas, but the main focus of the BBS, hence it’s name, were a large archive of UFO related material.
What's on your Christmas list?
Posted on December 20, 2007 in Palm. - No comments
So what do you buy a Palm TX owning techno nerd like me for Christmas? I’m always being told that I’m incredibly difficult to buy for and I know that’s partly (mainly) due to my impatience and tendency to go our and buy the stuff I want as soon as I can afford it.
On thing I know I you shouldn’t buy for any Palm owning friends is the incredibly rubbish Palm Cradle. I’ve not changed my option since I reviewed it. It’s still a waste of landfill.
Internet retail and the "last mile" problem
Posted on October 04, 2007 - No comments
When I arrived home from work, instead of the network card I’d ordered there was one of those dreaded “we called but you were out” slips. Nothing on the from was filled in but there was a phone number and a little map. On the back the delivery driver had written “please call to arrange”. I picked up the phone and dialled the number. “Welcome to the automated…” Sigh. I knew from experience this was going to be bad. The voice continued, ‘please listen to all the options before making your selected and have your consignment number handy.’
Consignment number? What bloody consignment number. A quick check of the slip revealed nothing, no number except the phone number. I continued with reckless abandon.