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What Camera Should I Buy?
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Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover
This week I am supporting the TRW presence at Automechanika in Frankfurt. Due to a cock-up on the packing front by the team leader this morning found us short of a wireless router essential to connect our demonstration vehicle to … Continue reading
Two Nations Divided By A Common Language
This doesn’t survive “translation”. Researching our forthcoming trip to the South Eastern USA, I found a guide to a small town on our route in North Carolina with the splendid, and somewhat misleading, title Doggin’ Asheville. Not what I expected … Continue reading
Scarily Bad
Reversing the scarily effective performance of Google Now, I just had a dangerous experience with Google Voice Typing. I attempted to make a note in a busy café with a lot of background noise. After I stopped talking it sat … Continue reading
Dysfunctional Hotel – Not Impressed!
Today I was working in Solihull at short notice, and couldn’t get into my regular hotel, so I’m trying the De Vere Village. This is a modern and allegedly upmarket hotel in Shirley, but I’m simply astonished how poorly it … Continue reading
Balloon Fiestas – The Awards
We are becoming quite the connoisseurs of balloon fiestas (unless fiesta is its own plural :)). Following on from Northampton 2008 (0 balloons) and Albuquerque 2012 (over 500 balloons) we’ve now added Britain’s biggest festival on Bristol, which featured a … Continue reading
World War Z – One from the Ministry of Strange Coincidences…
I’ve just posted my review of World War Z – The Book. In it, I liken the book to a science fiction version of “The World At War”. Now here’s the real oddity – the book of The World at … Continue reading
Just Get on the Train!
I have decided that there are essentially two types of film or play, those which are about whether to get on the train, and those which are about how to get on the train. I don’t really like the former, … Continue reading
Master, Master, Give Us A Sign
Apparently this goes back to the notorious spare poultry dumping incident of ’06… 😀 Continue reading
It’s Not Over…
You know how they say “it’s not over till the fat lady sings”? Well, if the fat lady starts singing along to her iPod in the gym it’s definitely over. I’ve never seen a gym empty that fast! 🙂 Continue reading
I Thought They Were Supposed To Be Getting Smaller?
Musings on why my laptops are getting bigger and heavier, instead of smaller and lighter Continue reading
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