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Never go to Debenhams

If you have a Rolex, or indeed ANY watch, and you want a new strap, please don’t take it to Debenhams. This is what they can do to a £3,000 watch. One of the members of my favourite Rolex forum, took his Submariner into Debenhams watch section “In-time.” The owner’s suspicions were aroused when the [...]

Ammonite

The observant amongst you will have noticed that I’ve replaced the Rolex crown as my logo banner with an ammonite. Despite sounding like an ancient tribe of Israel from the Old Testament, “Verily did the Lord God smite the Ammonites from on high for their blasphemous carousing” they were of course ancient and extinct ancestors [...]

Secularist thought for today

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Netbooks

For some time I’ve been researching what would be the best netbook to purchase. I like the idea of something portable, something cheaper than a laptop but powerful enough to run the things I needed. Obviously the OS would be some form of Linux.

The netbook market is surely set to explode, given that they [...]

Whoop!

I watched with wry amusement, Scott Forstall from Apple launch Version 3 of the iPod Touch and iPhone operating system. This now includes such innovative features as cut and paste, and internal file browsing. The fact both of these should have been present from the start did not diminish the MacHeads in the audience from [...]

Happy Birthday!

My Rolex is one year old today!

Some facts about my Submariner which may interest you – or not.

In the last week it’s maintained a +1.71 second variance per day. This puts it well within the COSC standards of -4/=6 seconds a day. Put it another way it’s is 99.99802% accurate. He has occasionally [...]

Tom Lehrer again

This time it’s the Masochism Tango. Great to see Tom play this with vigour and aplomb.

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My favourite line from this song is, “You caught my nose in your left castinet Love.” Thank goodness she was more careful with the right castinet.

Excellent BeBook news

Open source proves its worth once again. There are two pieces of good news for BeBook owners.

First Endless Ideas have revealed their new BeBook 2 which features a touch screen, better grey-scale levels for better image resolution and a larger screen. Best of all though is that it will come with wireless and the [...]