First impressions – new 2010 Macbook Air 13″ (2.13Ghz, 4Gb)

First impressions – new 2010 Macbook Air 13″ (2.13Ghz, 4Gb)

Having taken the plunge, I’m writing this on a shiny new 2010 Macbook Air 13″ (2.13Ghz Core2Duo, 4Gb ram & 256Gb SSD) – which UPS kindly delivered earlier today. For the last few years I’ve been happily using an early 2008 non-unibody Macbook Pro equipped with a 2.5Ghz Intel C2D, 4Gb ram and possibly the…

With 2011 rapidly approaching, it’s time for a clean up of my Twitter account

Twitter can be a simply incredible communication & marketing tool,  offering what can only be described as an unparalleled mechanism for communicating with your customers or readers. It’s somewhat comical however just how quickly some things can change from being exceptionally helpful, to becoming an ongoing challenge in terms of sorting the wood from the…

Challenge of the day; new radiator without draining the system down

Haven’t posted for a while (been somewhat busy!) so thought I’d share this briefly as a guide. We’ve been putting the finishing touches to a bedroom, and finally reached the point of needing to fit a new radiator. On the basis that it’s currently rather cold I didn’t really want to drain down the system……

Surely the days of this kind of SPAM have to be limited these days?

  Just received this via email… In this day and age, you really would have to hope that no one manages to fall for something like this. It’s a new take on the concept presumably – masquerading as an agency supposedly working against fraud yet looking for people to supply personal details to reclaim funds….

Google Instant Search – instant results, but have to say I still need convincing…

Google Instant Search – instant results, but have to say I still need convincing…

As you’re probably already aware, Google have launched “Google Instant” – available via google.com at the moment. I have to say, I’m really yet to be convinced that this is actually a good thing…. Yes, you get instantaneous results as you start typing search terms and that part of the equation seems to work really…

BT Web Address Help…

Would have been nice if BT asked before enabling stuff? Seems that BT (@BTCare) have decided to take it upon themselves to “help” BT Total Broadband users when they mistype a URL by offering up some sponsored links from Yahoo. Glad to see that these are really relevant and targeted to the domain you were…