Nepal clock – revised

Countdown To Nepal

Nice people give to Zambia

People amaze me sometimes. I have previously posted about the project Hannah and I are involved with to bring help to vulnerable children in a village in Zambia . Well Hannah has now gone out to help with the project in Zambia. First amazing person. Then, at the last minute, we decided to try and [...]

Fun with Jonathan Ross

I went to the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on Thursday last week (it’s pre-recorded!) which was a huge amount of fun. Amazed at how funny the guy is in real life (I’ve always found him a bit smarmy on TV). He was a consummate professional, extremely crude and rude and kept us enteratined [...]

Coming to a phone near you

Just when you thought they couldn’t squeeze any more onto a mobile phone, Mobile TV has arrived. Yes – you will soon be able to watch live TV on your phone – Mark Halper from Time magazine has written an interesting article about UK operator O2’s recently launched trial service in Oxford. But will anyone [...]

Iran-Iraq war kicks off 25 years ago today

I notice that today marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war which lasted 6 years and killed 400,000 people. The BBC reported at the time that “the rise in hostilities comes after Iraq tore up a 1975 border agreement with Iran over sovereignty of the Shatt al-Arab waterway…Western diplomats believe Iraqi [...]

TV stardom at last…

What a bizarre day yesterday was. Hannah and I appeared on BBC1 on the “Beat the Burglar” show. We looked like idiots, as expected but it was funny all the same.
How, and perhaps why on earth were we on it? Well, when we moved into our gaff in Wimbledon I had a feeling it [...]

ipod nano launched (as well!)

OK, getting a bit obsessive on this now, so last post I promise. They had one more announcement up their sleeve – the nano ipod. You can see all the details on the apple website, but basically it’s a smaller version of the existing ipod (available in 2 or 4G). Nice design, but again, I [...]

Apple iPhone – first pictures

available at this website

iPhone launched at last – but what a lead baloon

After lots of hype, several promised (but undelivered) launch events and some really bad leaking of the story, the new Apple/Motorola itunes phone is out. Congrats to Leslie Katz at CNET for breaking the news first when made official. All I can say is what a lead baloon. After all that hype it’s just a [...]

I love podcasting

I got home last night and wanted to listen to something vaguely intelligent whilst cooking. The trouble is that when I get home most radio stations are pumping out the same music I’ve listened to all day or, even worse, lonely hearts phone-ins. But I was able to plug my ipod into the speaker system [...]