May | 2005 | mistersnappy

the big G

Recently launched is the BBC backstage area at backstage.bbc.co.uk. It’s a place where the BBC are making code available for the open source community to develop and also for regular people on the street to make suggestions of ideas for development. As a result there is alot of applications/services that people are building that actually…

Give me a break!

I frequently hear a tune on the TV in an advert and can’t quite connect it to the name of the song and artist. Normally I’ll come across it a few days or weeks later on my iPod. There are various ways of overcoming this musical conumdrum including Shazam where you play the offending tune…

Saddles like razor blades

Bless his little cropped girly cotton socks… my little brother is doing the L’Etape du Tour this year. Lots of extensive training up and down the local hill of muswell and many miles racked up on a bike built from ebay will put him and his riding chums in peak physical condition for this 179km…

going underground… but not really

A while ago Mrs Menace and I went on a tour of Albert Square. We had a good nose round the Queen Vic, the bench of tears and other haunts. one of the things we checked out was the Walford East underground station. Outside the front there is a tube map giving the location of…

blanket coverage

I’m up wrapped in my blanket watching the coverage of the UK elections. Always one for a bit of Dimbleby of an evening, I can’t resist watching the TV/Online coverage of any decent election. The highlight so far was the banter between Hislop and Boris Johnson. Just like the old times on HIGNFY!!

Rock Deity

Today I met and was vitually hugged by a giant of rock. Mr Dave Grohl! And what a jolly nice chap too! I had to steal a cameraphone to take the pic as my heep of shite is in at Carphone Warehouse for a second time being repaired. Goo thing though co the camera I…

Weirdy…

As I mentioned below somewhere, there have been some strange goings on with the Hotmail ads on the MSN homepage and the Hotmail homepage (read below). Well after a long absence the other one appeared again tonight!! So here it is incase it vanishes again. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for any more peculiarities in…