I’ve been using the Flash Car Wash to wash my car for the past year. It’s a fantastic device, and has really good results. Not only does it leave my car shining without blotchy water marks, but it removes the need to use a bucket at all. There’s only one flaw with it though – it requires a hosepipe. Here …
I’ve done a bit of driving back and forth across the country recently, and I’ve seen quite a few places go over the £1 per litre mark. Admittedly they were the more expensive places anyway such as motorway service areas. Fortunately I’m not a heavy user of petrol, but it still frustrates me that something like 70% of the cost …
I’ve been using the speed camera database at Pocket GPS World with my satnav system for a while now. With the necessary tools installed on my PC it would automatically pull the latest data and install it on my PDA. Fantastic system, and no hassle at all to keep updated. When doing an update today I thought to check the …
Yesterday my car went in for it’s first yearly service at Invicta Motors in Canterbury. All in all not a bad experience; they gave me a discount for being a valued customer, cleaned the car for me (inside and out!), and had it waiting by the door when I got there. They even fixed the mudflap clip I managed to …
A few days ago my car insurance renewal quote came through from Ford Insure. I’d already done some online quotes to get an idea what I would be expecting to pay, so I was quite surprised to see the Ford quote come in at 50% more then the majority of the other quotes. Even when I queried this with them …
I finally decided to put an end to comment spam – I’ve installed a captcha. Whilst I was away on holiday I received around 3-5 spams a day, so rather than just deleting them I figured I needed to prevent them. The wordpress docs are a really useful resource. I decided to go with SecureImage since it looked fairly good, …
In an attempt to allow my mind to rest from work-related matters I’m heading off to Cornwall for a couple of weeks. I’ll be back for the Easter weekend when I’ll be shutting down all our systems at work for a campus-wide power shutdown.
Not that long ago I questioned how long it would be until I got comment spam on this blog. It didn’t take long for that to be answered; over the past day or two I’ve had 3 of them. Admittedly that’s not too many, but given this blog has only been running for two weeks that’s a pretty depressing start. …
I’ve always been fascinated by computer generated art, in particular the landscape work. Over the past few years they seem to be getting so good that it’s often hard to tell the difference between them and real scenery photographs. The main site I visit is digitalblasphemy.com, and I pay the small subscription fee to get access to the latest images. …
So, yet another blog. Given that there are more bloggers than blog readers one might have thought another blog would be largely pointless. They’re probably right. However, my intention is not to write an uninteresting blog about what I saw on television last night, what colour the sky is on my planet, or whether I prefer my toast with or …