For years the identity of the The Stig, the racing driver in white overalls that tested cars on the hugely popular Top Gear show, was unknown. He was invincible around Dunsfold, Top Gear’s private track, where he set lap records in pretty much any and every car imaginable. The Stig became a Top Gear cult [...]
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Book review: The Man in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, the Fast Lane and Me
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Posted on 4 January 2011
Mini-review: Origins Coffee Roasting
Posted on 6 May 2010
So the first Coffee Date at Origins was a lonely yet thoroughly enjoying one. Origins really does feel like the home of coffee. It’s housed in a 1904 tobacco warehouse, which really does give off that sense of something magical and old world. As you walk in, you greeted by a rather large coffee machine [...]
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Canon Powershot A590 IS Review
Posted on 1 December 2008
With my Fiance’s birthday last week and our upcoming wedding and honeymoon, it was due time I bought her a digital camera to replace my ageing Fujifilm Finepix S5100, a 4 megapixel, 3 year old camera that was starting to look more like an antique than a digital camera. The first stop for me when [...]
Mac vs PC or Apple vs Microsoft
Posted on 3 September 2008
Go search on Google and you will find over 2 million results. The debate will never end, but after reading Gary’s post on buying a Dell and his subsequent comments, I thought I’d post my 2 cents here. I made the switch over to Mac (by buying a Macbook Pro) about 2 months ago. That [...]
A simple guide to using OpenID
Posted on 21 January 2008
I am sure most of you have heard of OpenID some time or another. Simply put, OpenID is replacing the need for you to remember thousands of usernames and passwords we all have scattered across the web. So in essence, all you need to do is be signed up with an OpenID provider such as [...]
