Nerd – Luddite

I was talking to a friend today and he notices I have a notebook in my shirt pocket his comment was “don’t you have two phones”  when i nodded he laughed and called me a strange blend of Nerd and Noob…… Maybe it’s a writer thing but I cannot seem to enjoy making notes on…

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It’s the weekend!!

It’s the weekend  again and a mate has been round so we have been watching a film, and Big  Brother of course. Because of this I have been delayed doing my Blog post for the 2nd, but as I am still awake I am going to count this for the post so I haven’t missed…

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Google Glass banned while driving

It’s not really surprising but the government is preempting the release of Google Glass in the UK by banning people from wearing them. Not really surprising given how distracting it would be having images or anything playing across your vision while driving. I t would cause some crazy crashes sooner or later, I would have…

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August Challenge

To get the creative juices flowing again I am going to do another Blogging challenge. It is daft to have to do something like this just to get me Blogging every day, but I seem to keep to it when I am on a “challenge” I will try and make some of the subjects more…

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So called Justice in the UK

I was reading the Sun paper and again wanted to vent at the absolute ridiculousness of this country….. The Article is entitles “Victory for Evil” European judges have decreed that our courts cannot give actual life sentences to murderers. The Grand Chamber of the European court of Human rights has backed the complaints of three…

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Linux Gaining traction as a desktop solution

In a move that will save them 30 million euros Extramadura is replacing the governments computers with 40,000 linux based computers. This is the second largest public sector migration to Linux. Although Linux will never take the lead from Microsoft it is nice to see large scale migrations to Linux like this, it says something…

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Procrastination Station

I’m stood here on the platform……. I need to get out of here! I kept up with the blog when I was running the challenge but as you can see once that motivation left so did the updates…. I’m goin gto have to end up running a challenge every month just to get myself in…

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67%

19 out of 31 = 67% So at the beginning of May I set myself a may challenge, to write on this blog everyday. On the whole I managed to get something down, although towards the end I began to slip more. To say I wasn’t really posting anything beforehand this has worked as it…

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18 Year old inventor

Sometimes I read articles that just make my head spin…… I have a 18 and 19 year old in the house and to be honest its an achievement if they can get out of bed (i’m exaggerating of course) but seriously they are normal teenagers. Justin Beckerman is 18 and yet has build several fully…

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Xbox One

When I got in from work tonight I watched the Microsoft live broadcast for the review of the new console. Xbox One, so named as they are promoting it as the centerpiece of any home media system, the one device that will do everything. I have to admit I don’t usually flock to be the…

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