Author: Carrie

  • Jordan sings!

    Please let this be true: Charles Arthur links to two Youtubes featuring Peter Andre and Jordan singing their lovely duet. One of the clips allegedly features Jordan’s real voice, while the other clip is the version broadcast. They’re slightly different. Fake? Probably. But still funny.

  • Passing thoughts

    A few odds and sods that don’t justify a full blog post each: * Just because 99% of the spam in the world seems to be fake emails from eBay doesn’t mean eBay isn’t also emailing you. Turns out that in August, somebody hacked my account and attempted to sell thousands of fake designer handbags.…

  • Attack of the time thieves

    (The continuing saga of “little things that shouldn’t annoy me, but do”) I went to the cinema the other night (Stranger Than Fiction, since you ask. Yes, it was great. That Will Ferrell can really act! Who’d have thought it?) and, like the good little consumer I am, turned up just in time for the…

  • “Mast killers – do you live near a deadly mast?”

    The headline comes from yesterday’s News of the World which, along with various other Sundays, decided to scare its readers about mobile phone masts. The story begins: SIX neighbours from the same floor of a block of flats have all been hit by cancer after two phone masts were installed on the building now dubbed…

  • This would be a good time to buy software

    …or at least, software from the US. The Dollar’s kicking around the 50p mark, which is exceptionally low, and if you buy/register software online there’s no danger of it being intercepted by customs and VAT being applied.

  • Those road pricing plans explained in full

    Get off the road, peasants! Roads are for rich people now!

  • Talking about TV on the radio

    Do you have a high definition TV? Does its amazing technology do anything other than show off presenters’ spots? Do you feel that you’ve been conned into buying a big screen that makes existing TV programmes look worse? The Kilroy team would like to… sorry, wrong programme and, come to think of it, wrong medium…

  • Intelligent Design story evolves. Which is rather ironic

    “Let’s test Darwin, teacher says” – says the BBC, echoing the various newspapers. Nick Cowan of Blue Coats school has been urging the Education Secretary to allow Truth In Science packs – which push Intelligent Design (ID) – to be used in schools. The story talks about Cowan’s credentials again and again, and quotes him…

  • Newsflash! Sony sat-nav “still an absolute piece of shit”

    [photopress:nv_u50_cw_m_im.jpg,full,pp_image] This little beauty is Sony’s NV-U50 sat-nav system, which you can buy right now. Don’t. After extensive testing, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s still an absolute piece of shit. Back in May, I posted about the problem with the Sony’s maps: driving around Ireland, I spent most of the time with the…

  • iTrips, other MP3-to-FM transmitters legal in a week or so

    Ofcom’s confirmed that, as of 8th December, iTrips and other iPod-FM transmitters will finally be legal in the UK. Which is good news for the thousands of you who’ve bought such things and put them in a drawer, saying “oh, I wish Ofcom would make it legal so I can actually use it”.