At last, here is a film that can restore your faith in cinema. It’s not perfect but any criticisms (Batman’s voice is too deep, the ‘sonic’ eyes is a bit too much) pale into insignificance compared to the sheer scale of the achievement. The story, script and execution by all parties put every other summer [...]
Archive for July, 2008
July 24, 2008
MTB: Ghetto Tubeless, the what, why and how…
By benfrain in PersonalWhat is Ghetto Tubeless? It’s a way of converting ‘ordinary’ rims and tyres into a tubeless system. Our American cousins coined the phrase ‘Ghetto Tubeless’ as it denotes the budget nature and slightly subversive way it overcomes the problems associated with existing tubeless systems such as ‘UST’. Why? If you do any degree of mountain [...]
July 16, 2008
TECH: Scared of Wi-Fi but want internet around the house?
By benfrain in Personal, Tech-tipI’m a little paranoid about Wi-Fi. In fact, not just Wi-Fi. I’m also concerned that mobile telephones/Wi-fi combined will be the real ‘boiling frog’* event of our generation (as opposed to global warming). I therefore wanted to cut down on the amount of radio waves buzzing about my home but struggled against the convenience of [...]
July 16, 2008
TECH: iPhone 3G initial impressions and 2.0.1 wishlist
By benfrain in Personal, Tech-tip, WritingFollowing on from my last post, I was clearly wrong. There was clearly no shortage of people waiting to sign on for a new iPhone 3G (the pic attached shows my local O2 store at 7.55am 11/07/2008), although I’m sure there will be many more when it finally becomes available on PAYG. It’s also fair [...]
July 6, 2008
TECH: Why iPhone under-performs in the UK: still no PAYG…
By benfrain in Personal, Tech-tipSo O2, have decided not to launch the iPhone 3G on PAYG on the 11th July. It’s a terrible decision, which only goes to explain why the iPhone is performing so badly against Apple/O2′s expectations. The facts seem self evident: more people want PAYG than pay monthly. More succinctly, they want the iPhone device, not [...]
