Observations

	W' Brewed A Beer In Newcastle... 22/05/2010 It is the end od an era as Newcastle Brown Ale brewing ends in the North East and moves to Yorkshire. This news prompted me to do a search on YouTube for an old advert that was put out in 1977 to come..... read more>
	Working from home... 07/01/2010 Sometimes it is difficult to find the motivation so working in short bursts can assist in maintaining productivity. Obviously, one must not overdo it!..... read more>
	When old and beat-up is good 10/07/2009 I love guitars. To my eye, some are works of art as well as musical instruments. Guitars are probably one of the few design icons that defy the passage of time. What makes that an even more remarkable..... read more>
	WELL DONE MICROSOFT! 30/04/2009 The following caught my attention when reading this BBC News article about improvements in the next version of MS Windows: Mr Curran said that the Microsoft Windows team had been poring over every asp..... read more>
	The F1 Fishy One 30/09/2007 Carping On Those who know me are aware that I am an avid F1 GP watcher. This morning I watched a very wet and (for once) exciting race from Japan. The race was so wet that if I had owned a goldfish an..... read more>
	Chucklevision 07/02/2007 Picture: Paul and Barry, the Chuckle Brothers and obviously Mac fans! Living In A Parallels Universe Yesterday my refurbished Apple MacBook arrived to replace my ageing and creaking IBM Thinkpad T23 t..... read more>
	Willy OneCare - Hands Jobs Amunition! 06/02/2007 Far be it for me to gloat but I TOLD YOU SO! It seems that Microsofts OneCare security product is not quite as good at its job as one would have hoped. If you are surprised by this revelation then can..... read more>
	Every dingo has its day 25/01/2007 Apparently 26th January is Australia day, news to me but there you have it. I only know this because I received the following presentation attached to an e-mail from Irene, my cousin in the land of Oz..... read more>
	Curbing my enthusiasm 09/01/2007 When it comes to mobile phones I find it VERY hard, nay, IMPOSSIBLE to get enthusiastic about them. Manufacturers simply pack them with more and more jack-of-all-trades functions and facilities that I..... read more>
	All Music Is Shite!... Or so I am told. 16/11/2006 It is 3:00 am. There are many, many nights where I wake Rosy up with my snoring. I am terrible for snoring and when I snore I SNORE (so I am told) so I can hardly complain about the very rare occasion..... read more>
	Errr guitar 15/11/2006 I love guitars and I own enough of them for them to be classed by my wife as clutter. To me the good ones are more than just musical instruments, they are works of art, things of beauty which please t..... read more>
	Having the life of my time 19/10/2006 Perhaps it is the resulting pain from another dentist attack (I’ll tell you later) that turns my thoughts to things philosophical but it occurred to me the other day as to the implications of being bo..... read more>
	The Man With The (One) Blue Tooth 12/10/2006 Rosy and I were out and about one day and decided to slum it at old MucDonnalds fast food farm eee aye eee aye oh. While sitting eating I happened to notice in the distance another even older chap sit..... read more>
	Ah...Velly Interesting 12/10/2006 It was green, amber and red and it was situated by the roadside. However it was not a set of traffic lights and it did raise fears enough to cause a major security alert as a toxic hazard. It was in G..... read more>
	The new cardigan? 13/08/2006 When my dad was about the age that I am now the only time you saw him in denim was when he was doing ‘dirty’ work, gardening, DIY, fixing the car, that sort of thing. He’d wear an old shirt and pair o..... read more>
	A very strange dream 06/08/2006 I had a very strange dream today.... As usual I sat down to watch yet another boring Formula 1 Grand Prix which this time was from Hungary. From the moment the red lights went out it was action all th..... read more>
	Polydactyl - Paws for Thought 06/08/2006 I had a bit of a Michael Cane moment today courtesy of an unusual cat called Ziggy. A ‘Not a lot of people know that’ kind of moment with me being one of them wot didn’t know ‘that’. The ‘that’ in que..... read more>
	The Oscar For Best Actor Goes To... 06/07/2006 Jacques Cousteau (pictured above) was a famous French diver but other famous divers such as Portugal's Ronaldo and Figo add an acting dimension to the art that Cousteau could only ever blow bubbles at..... read more>
	Assault with a deadly.... fridge? 18/06/2006 I would like to think that one day I will visit my relatives in Australia, in particular my cousin Irene. However, the article that I have just read on the web leaves me a little unsettled. From what ..... read more>
	Sunday Ride - Highlights and Lowlights 18/06/2006 Not today but last Sunday, back in the days when I had more teeth than I have now, I performed an experiment. The results of my experiment were in some cases disappointing but in others quite amusing...... read more>
	The Gates of Hell, Now Open! 17/06/2006 OK it is time to hide behind the sofa but not because of a new Dr Who episode. I never imagined that a famous stamp collector could cause so much trouble but we all know this philanthropist who has re..... read more>
	Hatches, Matches and Despatches 08/06/2006 I was just pondering over the fact that I hadn’t posted anything for a few days when I realised that already this morning I have encompassed births, marriages and deaths. Births, because today is my s..... read more>
	Designed for Super-heroes? 04/06/2006 When it comes to sharing the burden of the household chores Rosy and I have an understanding, well in a manner of speaking we do. What I mean is Rosy understands what I mean when I say “No thank you, ..... read more>
	They think it is all over... and so should we 01/06/2006 Well June has arrived and I woke up this morning to the sound of rain, typical English weather. I’m not going to moan about the state of the weather, I have other long standing English obsessions to b..... read more>
	Snake-oil sales set to rise 01/06/2006 A double helping today and all thanks to our friend Bill. Now ‘Microsoft’ and ‘security’ are two words that often appear together but sadly never for the right reasons and always accompanied by ‘new’,..... read more>
	Reginald Von Molehusband 28/05/2006 My next door neighbour drives an old metallic blue 7 series BMW with low profiles on alloys, a big bore exhaust, rear wing and a body skirt. The way he legs it up and down the street and the noise tha..... read more>
	The real issue! 28/05/2006 On Sunday evening I just caught the end of Chicken Run on TV which reminded me of a BBC web site news article that I read on Friday. According to the article a geneticist, a philosopher and a chicken ..... read more>