Category: Weblog

  • Nearly had to buy new alloy wheels!

    As anyone who knows us will be aware of, gemma little polo has been an absolute pain in the bum! It does seem to of been one problem after the other with the pesky blue vw, but when its clean and running well we love it – so we keep fixing it!

    The other day i started taking the alloy wheels off the front of it, so that i could change the disks and pads and one of the driveshafts (got a bargain driveshaft from some car breakers in chesterfield, er the viaduct?) What i found underneath made me feel sick.

    The hub nut on the side that i was changing the driveshaft on was hand tight, and about fell off after a slight turn. EVERY SINGLE driveshaft bolt was finger tight, and some were completely loose!

    I recon if gem had used her car only a few more times, the bolts would of totally come out and she would of been skidding down the road with no alloy wheels on the front!

    A scary thought, but it was close to reality! I feel a lot better now i know they are tight, but im gonna get 12 new ones as the bolts have been nearly rounded off by someone.

    Be careful who you let work on your car!

  • I want a camera phone again!

    It sucks.

    Ive had a good quality camera phone, and been in the habit of unloading pics and uploading them to my picture site for years. Almost 6 years in fact.

    Fairly recently my Nokia N73 camera phone has stopped working, and as i have had it for so long i cant get used to using my Nokia 6301. It takes OK pics when its bright daylight but if there is a shadow or its dark your screwed.

    Ive looked at other phones, i have looked at the Nokia N96, the Nokia N82 and the Nokia 6220 Classic. Im swaying more towards the 6220 classic as its not going for daft prices on eBay.

    My iPhone 3g dream has been shattered, but im not bothered. Ive weighed it up in my head, and now i dont work in a factory there is hardly any need for me to get a MP3 focused phone. I just want a good camera, and the nokia interface im so used to.

    I have to wait till after xmas though 🙁

    I might see if i can fix my N73 before i go on holiday, hmmm 🙂

  • I think i’d like my own country please

    For some reason i had the urge to Google “inside sealand” this morning, as i wondered what the inside of the famous pirate principality looked like. I wasn’t expecting an underground city, more like a house floating on the water somewhere.

    I totally love the idea of being able to do whatever you want. The royal family (the Bates’) have their own currency, their own flag and their own laws. I bet they dont pay tax or anything too! In addition to being cool as fuck, its also the ideal platform to run a large datacentre style operation as you are outside of any countries laws so can host dodgy shit, or just offer very secure hosting for normal shit.

    After a bit of digging i found that sealand wasn’t the only independent “island”, and that a chap called Stuart Hill was given a small island off shetland and has declared it to be called Forvik.

    he’s built a little house on the 2 acre island, but according to what i have read the weather is pretty shit most of the year, and the island is in fact pretty uninhabitable.

    I have to say though, i admire these people for wanting to do something a bit bizarre instead  of growing up getting married having kids then dying.

    I would love to visit Forvik, or even Sealand for that matter – and i would like to one day also declare myself a king of some island somewhere. Preferably a hot one though 🙂

  • Multitasking lowers your IQ more than smoking cannabis

    I was looking at some videos online about how to increase productivity and manage your time more efficiently. One of the main points he mentioned was the importance of NOT multi tasking. He said we have become a society of people who will drop everything to ensure our emails are responded to immediately and will come out of meetings in order to reply to a text message.

    Its not good really, is it?

    He also mentioned some scientific studies that had been carried out which proved that your IQ is lower after multitasking, than if you had just smoked some weed.

    So let me get this straight…

    Simply by responding to a text message which pulls you away from what you were initially doing, or checking your email to find there is a new one, and replying to it, has more of a negative effect on your brain than if you smoked ganja.

    You know what i say to that dont you?

    Pass the dutchy!!!!