Category: thoughts of the day

  • What has the EU ever done for us?

    What has the EU ever done for us?

    I like to keep this blog fairly politically indifferent, but with the upcoming EU referendum in the UK I wanted to share this with you all.

  • Worried about your privacy on the Internet?

    Then stop posting private stuff….. http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/11/18/the-social-media-experiment-invading-strangers-privacy-with-the-help-of-social-media-video/

  • The evolution of the F1 Car in 60 seconds

    This is a really cool visualisation on how F1 cars have changed since 1968 through to today. I like the emphasis on the simplicity of this.

  • Zombie peripherals / changes to the dock connector

    So the popular blogs are all talking about what the future holds for the new iPhone. To summarise they basically all agree that the 5 is going to have a bigger screen, along with a redesigned dock adaptor and the headphone jack moved to the bottom. Lots of people are focussing on the screen, but…

  • Mobile networks cash cow / Switching to GiffGaff

    O2 pissed me off one too many times, so I left, and joined O2 GiffGaff, and I have to say, I am very impressed so far. Let me set the scene.  I used to be a Pay as You Go user with O2.  I’m not a heavy user of  my phone, other than to use…

  • Why is everyone hating on Southeastern?

    So I’ve been using the train network for a few months now and I really don’t understand why so many people are so critical of Southeastern trains. I’m not going to defend their perfect record and claim their never late, but they are nowhere near as bad as everyone makes out. All I ever read…

  • Life’s too short

    I don’t know if it’s that I’m now sat on a train for too long each day and it’s allowing me to think too much, or that I’m just fast approaching that age where you turn grumpy, but recently I’ve started to think that life is too short. Just because you can do something doesn’t…