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Posted in Tech on Mar 12th, 2008
The Japanese are currently investigating incidents of the 2GB iPod Nano emitting sparks and setting fire to things!
It appears that when the 2GB iPod Nano (from Apple) is recharged a fault is causing it to emit sparks and cause the fire risk.
Japanese shops have sold in excess of 400 000 of these units and authorities [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 11th, 2008
Lord Goldsmith (ex Attorney General) appears to be trying to make sure that he stays in with HRH by calling for all kids to have to pledge allegiance to the Queen prior to leaving school, and that there should be a National Holiday along the lines of Australia day.
Personally, I don’t have a particular difficulty [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Feb 27th, 2008
Last night I did a kinda dumb thing. I was sat at my computer catching up on the admin for my day job, and I felt the house move. It wasn’t a super dramatic shaking or anything of that nature, it was more like when someone slams a door and you feel the [...]
Posted in Rants on Feb 26th, 2008
Nothing wrong with protesting in my opinion. The British don’t do enough of it, and (it could be argued) the French do just a little too much of it.
What DOES wind me up though are professional protesters. There’s plenty wrong on this planet of ours, but when I hear about self appointed guardians [...]
Now I am not one to jump up and down and get excited when Nokia announce a new concept. The main reason is that although I am a fan of their phones (not least of all because the menus approach being intuitive), but they seem to have contracted the same disease that some car [...]
