2012/03/03 23:06
Marcel bought himself an iPhone 4S last week, and it quickly became apparent that Siri wasn't very good at understanding him, and a quick video search reveals it's a common problem for people with Scottish accents, including me (watch this one, too, if you haven't seen it yet). Apple claim Siri will get better at understanding its owner over time,...
2011/06/11 20:32
When we lived in Rose Street, we had just the normal terrestrial TV channels. However, when we moved to Newton Mearns three and a half years ago, we decided to get Sky to please the kids. We didn't get Sky Movies or Sky Sports, but we still paid £23.50 a month on top of the TV license.However, the penny finally...
2012/04/19 23:53
We’ve had a dandelion (mælkebøtte in Danish) problem for years. Phyllis has spent countless hours pulling them up by hand, which is a backbreaking and thankless task.
A couple of days ago I then ordered a weed puller from Amazon, and it arrived today.
I was a wee bit doubtful that it would really be worth the money, but it’s great! It pulls up a dandelion within a couple of seconds, and often with the entire root attached.
Parts of it are made of plastic, but it looks reasonably sturdy, so I would definitely recommend this tool to all gardeners!
2011/08/16 23:18
When I was learning to drive a few years ago, I bemoaned the complexity of manual transmission and suggested a better way: "As far as I can see, all of this could be done with the vertical part of a joystick or similar, holding it still to maintain the speed, moving it forwards to go faster, and pulling it backwards to slow down (and braking depending on how hard you’re pulling it)."When I wrote this, I had never tried to...
2011/07/05 23:55
Phyllis has nagged me for some time to get new mobile phones for Complexli, so yesterday I finally called T-Mobile and got the price of our contract reduced by 50% and got two new phones: an HTC Wildfire S for Phyllis and an HTC ChaCha for me.So far I really like it. The keyboard is very good, much better than...
2011/02/14 21:45
Last month, we finally decided to get rid of the enormous 50" telly that Phyllis had got in her divorce (and which had replaced my old 14" one), on the grounds that it was far too big for our TV...
2010/07/02 21:12
So today The Times was finally put behind a paywall after a few weeks that allowed users free registration.It's insane.The whole point of the Internet is the interconnectedness of all sites, so the sites that limit access will find it...
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