All articles from: January, 2008

Stop Whinging and Learn to Drive

Posted on 20 January, 2008 by Dave and has no comments yet.

Sorry David Coulthard, but when I saw this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7191512.stm
I saw red.  I mean, apart from some of his aston­ish­ingly pat­ron­ising com­ments dir­ec­ted towards younger drivers, he did noth­ing but con­firm that his F1 career has been a long period of jour­ney­man mis­takes.
His abil­ity to spin off dur­ing warm up laps was once some­thing quite spe­cial in F1.  Of […]

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Geek Joy!

Posted on 17 January, 2008 by Dave and has no comments yet.

One of the nicest things about mod­ern tech is its abil­ity to update itself.
A while back my PVR overnight gave itself lots of lovely fea­tures.
And today, my iPhone updated itself with some inter­est­ing new fea­tures when it went to ver­sion 1.1.3.

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Bless him…

Posted on 1 January, 2008 by Dave and has 1 comment.

2008 kinda star­ted on a low today… We we’re doing a spot of leaf­let­ing for Romana’s French teach­ing today when I walked up one drive and saw a tabby sleep­ing near the back of a car. I dropped the leaf­let off, walked back, but noticed the cat seemed rather still.
So I went back, knocked […]

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