Entries from December 2008
Blackberry Storm goes down a…better than expected
December 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
You have to be impressed with my self control in the title , I could have gone the cheesy route, but I resisted (at least the extent where I am now only mentioning it in the opening lines of this post). Despite hearing not so great things in review, the Blackberry Storm is selling well. [...]
Tags: Technology
Top 9 Albums of 2008
December 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
A year in review, I couldn’t think of a 10th album so I you’re left with 9. 9.Radiohead – In Rainbows 8.John Mayer – Where the Light is 7.Delta Spirit – Ode to Sunshine 6.Alphabeat – This Is Alphabeat 5.MGMT – Oracular Spectacular 4.Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends 3.Arcade [...]
Tags: Music
Round Up
December 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
Being as this will most likely be my last round up before I close up shop for the new year, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone who reads this blog, I enjoy interacting with a few of you in the comments, for anyone who is around often but never gets as far [...]
Tags: Hat Tips · Miscellaneous
The Kettles on…Christmas Blend
December 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off
All Starbucks lovers enjoy the novelty of a seasonal blend, and I’ve just picked a bag of Starbucks Christmas Blend up for the last week in work before Christmas. Starbucks beans are a tad overpriced in my opinion but in the UK it certainly is one of the only places to be assured of a [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · My Life
A Late End of Week Round up
December 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
I didn’t get a chance to post this at the end of last week but there are some links worth checking out here. I’m wondering if any of you mac users out there have played around with quicksilver and if so what you think of it? I was amazed to see Venice underwater a few [...]
Tags: Hat Tips
Another Idea to make life simpler in the New Year
December 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I’ve decided to try and make a clean break with my work email. For person email I’ve used Gmail for the last 4 or 5 years since it was in alpha and the search system makes it very usable and I’ve never looked for any other email service. At work I use outlook like the [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · Technology
Starbucks to offer FREE wifi in the UK
December 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I heard hot of the press from my local starbucks manager that Starbucks will be rolling out free wifi to all starbucks stores in the new year! Good News for everyone who has begrudged paying the extortionate prices for T-Mobile wifi, if this goes global I would expect it to be a serious move towards [...]
Tags: Technology
Start of the week Round Up
December 16th, 2008 · Comments Off
In the absence of my tradition of doing an end of the week round up for the last few weeks due to various technical faults (a case of the bad workman blaming his tools a bit there) I thought I’d send you in the direction of a few things I picked up on today: Andy [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · Theology Thoughts · politics
WordPress 2.7 Installed
December 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Although you wont notice any difference on the face of it, Ive just installed WordPress 2.7 and for me on the backend, it looks VERY different. One of the most interesting new features is a quickpress box on the dashboard which enables you to posty shorter posts, somewhat in theme of the popular tumblr blog [...]
Tags: Blogging
Win Top Ten books of 2008 for Christmas
December 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Trevin Wax who I interviewed earlier this year on missions is staging a Christmas giveaway of his top ten books for 2008, they include some books that I’ve wanted to read but no been able to justify this year. So this is my shameless attempt to win his competition whilst sending you all over there [...]
Tags: Hat Tips · Miscellaneous
