Daniel Hannan, conservative MEP, stand up and take a bow. The fact that this clip got no air time on the BBC and other national news should be little surprise as it arguably amounts to little more than name calling. However, that doesn’t make it any less satisfying to watch…
Archive for March, 2009
March 25, 2009
TECH: Faster broadband anytime soon?
By benfrain in Personal, Tech-tipTake a look at this article: Virgin Media says it may open its high-speed cable network to other broadband providers. Does anyone else find it completely staggering that in 2009 people are still talking about ‘proving the market’ – for pity sake, most people outside cities struggle to get an Internet connection above 2MB/sec – [...]
March 24, 2009
OSX: Converting Parallels or VMWare to VirtualBox
By benfrain in Tech-tipThis post is a step by step explaining how to convert a Parallels Virtual Machine to a VirtualBox Virtual Machine. If this post helps you out, I’m collecting money for Christies Cancer Hospital and it would be good if you could contribute a small donation. Details at the bottom… I use Windows on my Mac [...]
March 17, 2009
REVIEW: Nike Five Zoom T-7 football trainers
By benfrain in Personal, WritingThe Nike Five Zoom T7/Nike 5 Zoom T-7 trainers comes in two distinct flavours; the CS version (black and green with lugs on the base for Astro/3G turf) and the FS or ‘Futsol’ version (green and red with gum sole for indoor courts). This review deals with the FS version although they are all but [...]
March 12, 2009
TECH: iPhone 3.0 software event
By benfrain in Personal, Tech-tipNext Tuesday journalists are being invited to a media event at Apple’s Cupertino, Calif. headquarters. Apparently the invitation reads ‘Get an advance preview of what we’re building’. Well, here’s three things I’m hoping for… 1. Cut and paste – it’s not rocket science but as the all the cool kids running jail-broken iPhones already have [...]
March 12, 2009
RANT: Sometimes I just want to watch the earth burn…
By benfrain in RantHere was today’s blue touch paper: an email from my local multiplex telling me about ‘The Age Of Stupid’ – a new film, based around the premise of a man, one of earth’s surviving humans speaking to us in 2055 and asking why we didn’t do more to avoid the global catastrophe of climate change. [...]
March 10, 2009
WRITING: Computer Active feature
By benfrain in WritingI’ve not written for Computer Active before and as the UK’s best selling computer magazine I was pretty excited when I got the chance to do so. If you pick up the current issue my first feature for them begins on page 30 titled ‘Windows Pick Me Ups: Just the tonic’. The feature covers quick [...]
March 10, 2009
TECH: iMac hard drive upgrade
By benfrain in Tech-tipThis post details how I upgraded the hard drive in my Aliminium iMac to 1TB… After the lack lustre iMac upgrades this March I skipped picking up the latest generation and opted for one of the ‘old’ models from the Apple refurb store. It was the 2.8GHz model with 2GB memory and 320GB Hard Drive, [...]
