A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine mentioned that they wanted to go to Borneo, and I was quite interested in going to Mongolia (which I have been for what seems like ages now!). Anyway, another friend of mine just came back from the Galapagos and we had a chat last week about [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2008
Great music, Zune and iPod
There’s a lot of really good music being given airtime by a number of UK-based radio stations such as London’s “Capital Radio”. I do also listen to a lot of classical music, blues and some jazz through Internet-based radio stations but I did want to say something about some songs that I particularly liked at the [...]
WM6 ActiveSync Error 0x8503001c – solution found!
My main desktop is running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit with Office 2007 Pro. I also have a Windows Mobile 6 (WM6) device…an O2 “xda Orbit” which is based on the HTC Artemeis. For synchronisation I’ve been using Vista’s “Windows Mobile Device Center” WMDC and at some point I had upgraded this to WMDC 6.1 but [...]
Quackery!
Skeptico has an article that Quackometer is being sued again. Skeptico has a valid point that Quackometer’s domain hosting company or ISP is a bit of a chicken…or is that a lame duck? I’ve certainly seen a lot of fakers in my own industry and it’s funny, when I’ve called them on something technical and [...]
Mars movies
A few years ago I saw the sci-fi films “Red Planet” and “Mission to Mars” which both came out around the same time. I have to admit to being disappointed when I saw them. Cectic has a great comic on this which kinda describes how I feel. It may perhaps be a bit too harsh [...]
Future of music – my vision!
A device, whether mobile or fixed, such as a laptop, a mobile telephone, a desktop, etc which is used (as one of its functions) to receive “radio” stations from the air (using radio techniques such as VHF/FM, DAB, etc) or “streamed” such as from an Internet connection over xDSL, WiFi, etc. Such a device, using automatic [...]
Internet at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
A few weeks ago I spent a few hours waiting for my plane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. As most of you know it’s a big modern airport. However, as far as I was concerned, for such a big and modern airport it was sadly lacking in something that I would have considered essential…proper sit-down [...]
Supernatural Evidence
xkcd has posted another one of his genius cartoons. The Bad Astronomy and Pharyngula websites have picked this up already and I’m sure other sites have also. No more words.
