Well, I finally got my speed upgrade from my cable provider, ntl, yesterday. A free upgrade from 3mb to 10mb, not too shabby if I say so myself. The speed of the download in the screenshot above is typical when downloading from reputable download sites, ie. mirror.ac.uk, but as with any connection, the download speed can only be as fast as the server can/is configured to go. I have to say though, 23 minutes to download a 2.5gb Linux (DVD) [...]

Remember to observe the 2 minutes silence at 11am today, the eve of Armistice day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day

Spread the word. We have to Stop Will Young. The Pop Idol winner is about to make a career ending move by re-recording the classic Smiths’ song, ‘Heaven knows I’m miserable now’ as his shot at christmas No.1. I picked up on this from Fridays’ Guardian, according to this article; “He has been asked to record a Christmas song for Radio 2, which, being an obliging sort, he’s happy to do.” … “His publicist, one of the small retinue who [...]

I thought that I’d post a quick note about referrers and hintofsarcasm. I’ve been monitoring them closely over the past few weeks and having never really cared before now, I’ve found it quite interesting. First, I’d like to thank those who link me, surprisingly you send me quite a lot of hits. The Insane Waiter, FinkAngel, Joecas, Sera and Pinkfin. Good ol’ Google also sends me quite a lot of hits and my pages are usually high in the results [...]

I finally caught up with the rest of the world this week and watched ‘The Godfather‘, widely acclaimed to be the best movie ever made. Having seen what I was missing out on, I am now on a crusade. The problem, you see, is, although I love movies. I haven’t seen a lot of the classics. In fact, I’ve seen hardly any of them. I have access to the DVD’s of all the best ones, my father is a total [...]