Author: Carrie

  • Things what I have bought and are good

    The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Bleak! Lost Planet: Extreme Condition for the Xbox 360. Fun! On The Wealth of Nations, by PJ O’Rourke. Witty!

  • Lovely

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  • Slimming world

    Nice (accidental) bit of page layout on the Sun site today: [photopress:screenshot_01.jpg,full,pp_image]

  • Why wait for the iPhone when you can have one of these next month?

    This’ll gladden Squander Two’s heart: Nokia’s new N95 phone (Nokia prefers to describe it as a computer) comes out next month in Europe and looks pretty nifty. [photopress:nokia_n95_1.jpg,full,pp_image] Here’s the interesting bits: 3G, 3.5G and Wi-Fi 5MP camera Integrated GPS and mapping FM radio Support for stereo bluetooth It’ll be subsidised by operators – current…

  • Email problems, again

    Not just tardyness on my part: my web host’s mail servers have been down for most of today, and they’re still knackered – so I’m not receiving emails at all. A day later… The servers are working again but there’s clearly a huge backlog outstanding: while emails are starting to trickle through, they’re at least…

  • “If electromagnetic waves can penetrate walls, just imagine what they can do to your skin!”

    Various lifestyle mags (GQ and some women’s ones) are running tech-related bullshit from Clarins: artificial electromagnetic waves make your skin go all bobbly or something, and you need to spend your cash on expensive beauty products. Now! – Magnetic Defence Complex protects skin from the ageing effects of Artificial Electromagnetic Waves. – Clarins Anti-Pollution Complex…

  • What next? “Remember to breathe”?

    The Scottish Executive’s latest wheeze: spending a couple of million quid on this campaign. [photopress:press3.jpg,full,pp_image]

  • Doctorin’ the tardyness

    Worst blog headline ever? Quite possibly. Time for one of my semi-regular apologies: the combination of deadline mountain, martian death flu and various other bits and bobs means I’m really rubbish at replying to emails at the moment. If you’re waiting to hear back from me and your message wasn’t “OMG my house is on…

  • How can the iPhone possibly compete with this?

    I’ve just upgraded to the Sony Ericsson W950i – I like SE phones, because they’re Mac-friendly (with iSync, at least) and the music sound quality’s excellent. So here’s a good example of what the iPhone’s up against – the process of transferring contacts and tunes from your Mac to a w950i. Connect phone to Mac…

  • Ch-ch-ch-changes

    I’ve been planning to make changes to the blog for a while, but rather than a new name – Captain Spanky’s adventures in cyberspace, anyone? – I decided instead to get it redesigned by the gorgeous, pouting Ronnie Brown (with a pic taken by David). I’ll switch to the new theme in a wee bit,…