Sat Nav on the Omnia
Having just returned from a lazy 1000 mile traversal of France in a Renault Traffic I found the Sat nav facility on the Omnia superb. I have all the Western Europe maps on a small memory card which I bought on ebay With the Route 66 application installed the i900...
Searching for Michael Peterson
I was lucky enough to chance upon a beautiful evening in Brighton at the Sally Bennis Theatre. A load of the South Coasts finest 'surferati' was assembled to view Jolyon Hoff's documentary/ film. It was a finely constructed and nicely cut insight into both the east...
All you need to know about surfing
Well I have been surfing for a year now so I feel I should pass on a small guide as to what I have learnt Attire It is important not to get cold so you should in the UK wear a wetsuit covering your arms and legs. If you are well hard you can go for a short suit or...
Nice Flash Rotating Carousel
We made this at work to showcase some products from one of our clients and it looks beautiful.
Fashion Jewellery
Work. Well we just finished on a beautiful development and design of Chic Fashion Jewellery - a site which specialises in Fashion and Costume Jewellery. The site is built on the Magento framework ( an open source ecommerce package) and is integrated with Sagepay (...
oooNews Website
I came across ( literally ) a most erudite site today at ooonews - although I doubt that their news sources are totally reliable and I suspect that they overuse certain expletives for comic affect; there can be little doubt that they are bringing a fresh and...
Nokia 5800 is a soft touch
Well, I am nearing the end of a contract and looking rather desperately for the successor to the Nokia 6500. To tell the truth I thought it would be more like an N Series phone when I ordered it and did not realise that was not S60. Still it has proven a reliable and...
Death of a Mobile Phone
Well this morning it happened, either carelessness or Mobile Suicide took place. The Nokia N95 leapt from safety to the bottom of the toilet bowl. It was swiftly retrieved and stripped down and put out to dry. Mobile phones seldom survive complete immersion and I will...
Nokia N86 with 8 Megapixel Camera
Nokia have recenlty unveiled the Nokia N86. This latest of the superb N Series mobile phones boasts an 8 megapixel camera with Karl Zeiss lens. This will be a beauty I am sure. They have steered further away from the almost boxy exterior of the N95 to deliver a...
Lugubriousness
This is the state of mind you get into at times wher your feet are enshrouded by heavy mud. You are unable to make fleeting jumps or crackling leaps of faith or beauty. Then sometimes you wake from such a sluggardly geeling and your soul cries with pleasure, you are...
Big Surfboard
NSP LARGE, originally uploaded by s4m80. This is a little sad, and the image dimensions are all over the place, but it was a turning point in my life ( for the good or bad I dont know ) and I am like a butterfly turning frequently anyway. But I got my very own...
Save Brighton Marina Surf
Barack Obama , the newly appointed PResident of the USA yesterday was quizzed on CNN regarding the proposed development at the Brighton Marina and its predicted detrimental affect on the waves at 'Custard Point'. Obama commented : "I am completely against any...
Winter Surf in Shoreham
Just to let you know that this morning I was in the sea from 9-10.30 round the back of Shoreham Harbour, fully dressed in head to toe neoprene. The tide was very low (0.7m at lowest ) and the winter swell brought in some fine waves. I started out on a 9'6'' longboard...
New Year is Here
Christmas presents are a funny thing, it is said in many quarters that you end up getting a whole load of unwanted stuff each Christmas, certainly I have previoulsy been a victim of such occurences. This year things were different here is what I got : Wetsuit gloves -...
ready2invest
In an update to this thread I have been warned by many people tha buying off plan is a very risky business. In noway referring to ready2invest, but in general off plan property overseas investments can lead to tears, financial loss and heartache. In this world of such...
SEO Pub Quiz Winners
Last night at the Sovereign Pub in Brighton in an event hosted by Leapfrogg Juretic Media entered a SEO competition. The team gathered at the and surveyed the competition. The elite of Brighton's online marketing agencies were present and the Juretic Team were without...
iphone for the home
The ipod iphone delirium continues and I see normally sensible people go weak and jibbery over these gadgets. The Nokia N95 continues to offer a far superior OS and performance than the iphone. But do you think they will ever ( Apple that is ) start supplying the...
SMTP Problems on Windows Mobile
Had been having a few issues with my Samsung Omnia of late, particularly with the SMTP settings and somehow not allowing me to send emails. The mobile runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and, though familiar with the Windows configuration of POP and SMTP and IMAP and all the...
Hot Pipes
Hot Pipes, originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson. Raucously coloured waves bursting over Shoreham's Hot Pipes
Samsung Omnia Turned On
It was never going to be easy choosing between the Samsung Omnia and the HTC Touch Diamond to replace my Nokia N95 but in the end I was swayed by the Omnia's larger screen, higher onboard memory ( 16gig ) and DivX playback facility. I kind of knew at the time of...
Why I Love Google
Google have been around for some 10 years now and they have become a byword for an online search, a synonym with the speed and accessibility of the web. That is not all they do of course, the list is massive. Gmail - the nicest web based mail I have ever used...
Spam filter Irony
Just being raising up my spam filters to the max and realised what I was doing..... I am blocking all emails which offer the chance to get rich quick or the chance to have a larger willy. This is rather ironic to say the least......
Then End
San pethano ti tha poune, pethane enas leventis pou glendouse ti zoi, ax aman aman. Love echoes.
PC World lulling us into fat apathy
I could not believe what I heard on the radio this morning, a well known international vendor of PC's are offering mobile broadband service which will allow you to access the internet anytime, anywhere. What puzzled me is their choice of examples as to where this may...
Bored on the 4th July
Not really that much to say of late for which I apologise. Saw a nice site though which makes for extensive flash useage and grinding sound at http://www.pluginmedia.net/ - fair rockin I would say. Apart from that, I am chilled and feeling poetic....
Traffic TV on My Nokia 6500
I have had the Nokia 6500 slide for a while now and it is as I would have expected. But this has quite annoyed me. For a start, when I synchronise it with Nokia PC Suite it gives me the option to install Nokia Maps. i would like to, even though the mobile has no GPS...
Pension Release Eligibility
Pension Regulators have recently changed the way in which pension release applications will be handled, In particular the eligibility for pension unlocking. From April 2010 ( that is under two years away), the age at which you can apply for pension release will go up...
DCP850 Portable DVD Player
This is without doubt the most beautiful piece of equipment I have been fortunate enough to own for many years. Upon opening the package I was initially extremely impressed at the sleek white exterior of this portable DVD player, I open the Philips DCP850 up and the...
Cats and Cat People
Cats have never really turned me on to be sure. Like many people I find them to be slightly sinister, lazy, manipulative and condescending. I have never owned a cat nor will. I have never, to my knowledge killed one either but I may one day. You see, an old friend...
Self Publishing
Ok, I have been filling this blog with words and articles for a couple of years now and it is about time that I did what I always wanted to do and get down to some serious writing. No more of the 300 word posts about ephemeral items, but to write my novel. I have at...
Private Investigators in Brighton
I have never used a PI (Private Investigator) before and don't really know much about the industry, never having given it much thought. However recently I came across a company based in Brighton who offer Private Investigation work and covert surveillance ops so I...
Nokia 6500 Slide
OK, please ignore my post of yesterday, or was it the day before I am not sure. I looked at all the hugely featured mobiles available and came to the decision that it was time for something solid and sensible. A bit like the choice of a Nokia 6230 a few years ago. I...
Nokia N96 – power in your pocket
Just been on the Nokia site and I am transfixed again. They have managed to cram all of the features of the N95 into a newer, sleeker model, with 16 huge gigabytes of on board flash memory The ipod is dead, long live the N96 I can feel a certain longing feeling...
Sennheiser Headsets Rock
Man it must be a 'designer' think I thought to myself when Martin started setting himself up in the office. He had just started work with us, a web design and marketing company, when, on day two of his employment he appeared with a pair of Sennheiser headsets in his...
Vehicle Security
There is little doubt that in the modern world man ( or woman's) most treasured possession is often their car. Car's, you see, are many things. Primarily they are a mode of transport, but to think of a car on that way would be to see only a fraction of what a car...
Wireless Burglar Alarms
With home security in the news more and more these days it is not just sufficient to insure your property, you need to take preventative measures in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal attack and to discourage potential burglars at the same time. The...
Personal Alarms for Ladies
I don't think we have a red light district here in Brighton, of course I have seen cards in the phone boxes (these appear to have vanished now ) but that is the only real evidence I have that there is a sex industry in the town. Apparently other towns have red light...
Betting on Football
Man, I love football. I don't actually like the game itself, I mean I would rather watch a game of Rugby or Cricket but what I love is the gradual shifts of power which take place over a season. Any football lover who does not appreciate a test match should consider...
Travelling abroad with Nokia 6230
Well, friends of mine are off to the states ( the Unites Ones ) next month for a few weeks, and had a while to ponder how they would deal with their communications needs whilst over the pond. They rather sensibly acquired a Pay As You Go American SIM card and then...
Alie.N.Jure.Ti.coM
This fellow runs a digital marketing company in Brighton, I think you can tell.....
Roll Back Nokia N95 Firmware
The removal of the tracking facility on the N95 was, in retrospect, an absolute piece of thievery. In one fell swoop Nokia removed the raison d'etre of the phone. I had initially been attracted to the N95 as it had sat nav/ GPS built in and in the early days of its...
I want a portable DVD player
I dont usually go on about such things, I do in fact. I want one, I want to turn one on. Now the last thing I would want to do would be to prostitute my blog with some sort of begging message, that would be against the integrity with which I write and against the...
Woolworths and Lolita
You could not make it up, and I guess that is the beauty of news stories like this. Woolworths have withdrawn from sale a range of childrens furniture called Lolita. A Woolies spokesman has said : " none of our staff realised the connotations of the name" That none of...
Car Insurance
New Police initiatives recently published have announced that motorists run the risk of having their cars crushed - by that I mean completely mashed up - if they are discovered being driven without valid insurance. I think that this type of police statement is meant...
Garden Antiques
My garden has long been rather overgrown, there are voraciously rampant brambles which creep, like invading armies over any unclaimed ground, extending their tendrils over discarded itmes as if, even, to saprophytically suck the goodness from them. Disconcerted,...