You may be surprised that the title of the world’s tallest structure does not change hands that often. In fact, only 19 man-made structures have ever held the title throughout our history. An astounding fact when you realise how many tall structures have been constructed over the last five thousand …
After a month in Cuenca, we travelled up to Baños on Saturday. It only took around 9 hours to get here, which isn’t too bad when compared to most of the other journeys we have done in South America. The town is situated in a valley, surrounded by many high …
The Feedburner service is no longer supported by Google. The blog has been closed. So has their Twitter account…and it’s been years since they ever added any new features. The service is all but dead. In this article, I look at alternative solutions that allow you to deliver your content to subscribers.
This time last year I was in Thailand at the start of a 3 month trip. Before going over I secured a year long worldwide travel insurance policy with American Express. I had used a cheaper UK insurance company the previous year but having actually having made a claim and …
Growing up one of my favourite shows was Harry Enfield in lads. Later Paul Whitehouse, one of the stars of the Harry Enfield show, was involved in a classic sketch show called The Fast Show. Some of the sketches missed the mark but there were loads of fantastic clips too. …
If you have a spare $6.3 million lying around, you may be interested in Jerry Senifelds Los Angeles house. Don’t think I’ll bother making a bid. Although it has three bedrooms and five bathrooms, it only has space for 4 cars in the garage. What am I supposed to do …
I spoke about Dana White dropping Jon Fitch the other day because he wouldn’t give up his image rights for the upcoming UFC game. That issue aside, UFC Undisputed 2009 actually looks like a pretty good game. I had UFC Throwdown for the GameCube years ago. It was ok but …
I read today that Jon Fitch has been dropped from the UFC because of his refusal to give up his name and likeness rights for a lifetime. From GameSpot : Thanks to a reported dispute over an upcoming THQ game, a group of Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters are about to …
I have read about Twitter numerous times in the last year however I constantly resisted invitations to join Twitter. Although I could see the benefits of using it, I just didn’t want something else wasting my time (msn messenger and skype waste a few hours every week for me as …
This morning my brand new 4gb Eee 701 PC was delivered :) * (for details of my order please read my previous post) I’ve only been playing around with it for a few hours and this post represents my initial impressions of the laptop so far ie. I haven’t used …