When the Greeks are Marketed to

Now, I may be completely wrong, this is all conjecture of course as I am no expert in the economy for sure. Recently I have been made aware of the awful crash of a country I loved like a lover, like a sibling or like a child I am not certain which, just it was an...

Invictus – is it a true story

I watched Invictus the other evening. Generally I have a little gripe with Clint's movies, they sort of shout out at me that my heart strings are being tugged at mercilessly, that the characters will do just what is expected of them and that there will be an honest...

Ovi releases Free Sat Nav for Nokia N95 NOT

Om my god I thought to myself as I drove along. Funnily I am back to using a N95 again, after a couple of years with Windows Touchscreen devices and more recently the wondrous HTC Hero. Well the voice comes on the radio and announces free voice navigation from now on...

Most Dangerous Surf Break on the Planet

Surfing is great fun, anyone who has slipped into the sea with a board knows that. It is a spiritual experience, bringing you closer to nature. But there is a darker side too, nature is savage and anyone who wants to ride the wild sea must pit themselves against...

Naming a New Media Company

Like OMG, how mant iterations does one have to go through to find a name for a new media company. Last year we brainstormed this, finding many obscure and wonderful words - only to find them already taken. Eventually even an exhaustive search of foregin words drew a...

HTC Hero Android Phone Kicks the Iphone into Touch

Well I was recommended the HTC Hero by a lovely Mel at Orange upgrades ( over the Samsung HD Omnia ) and I am forever in her debt. The Android powereed phone is like a natural progression into the area of cloud computing. I had already made forays into this via...

Social Media and SEO Strategy

I was asked the other day how I felt that ecommerce had changed over the past few years and my initial reaction was that it has not. I mean, in essence you still proffer up your goods and services online and try to induce your customers to click the "buy now" or...

Crash of a Windows Mobile Smartphone

Well I have been using the Samsung Omnia ( SGH i900 ) for a year now and have grown to love it. Indeed I have come to rely heavily on its additional features, my email and the handy little Route 66 Sat Nav. It all came crashing down last week, though when the phone...

New Pension Release Information

Well I have been warbling about pension release for ages now and have sourced a new information place for all issues related to pension unlocking and such like at Pension Release Information Naturally don't believe everything you read. Releasing cash from your pension...

Sat Nav on the Omnia

Having just returned from a lazy 1000 mile traversal of France in a Renault Traffic I found the Sat nav facility on the Omnia superb. I have all the Western Europe maps on a small memory card which I bought on ebay With the Route 66 application installed the i900...

Searching for Michael Peterson

I was lucky enough to chance upon a beautiful evening in Brighton at the Sally Bennis Theatre. A load of the South Coasts finest 'surferati' was assembled to view Jolyon Hoff's documentary/ film. It was a finely constructed and nicely cut insight into both the east...

All you need to know about surfing

Well I have been surfing for a year now so I feel I should pass on a small guide as to what I have learnt Attire It is important not to get cold so you should in the UK wear a wetsuit covering your arms and legs. If you are well hard you can go for a short suit or...

Fashion Jewellery

Work. Well we just finished on a beautiful development and design of Chic Fashion Jewellery - a site which specialises in Fashion and Costume Jewellery. The site is built on the Magento framework ( an open source ecommerce package) and is integrated with Sagepay (...

oooNews Website

I came across ( literally ) a most erudite site today at ooonews - although I doubt that their news sources are totally reliable and I suspect that they overuse certain expletives for comic affect; there can be little doubt that they are bringing a fresh and...

Nokia 5800 is a soft touch

Well, I am nearing the end of a contract and looking rather desperately for the successor to the Nokia 6500. To tell the truth I thought it would be more like an N Series phone when I ordered it and did not realise that was not S60. Still it has proven a reliable and...

Death of a Mobile Phone

Well this morning it happened, either carelessness or Mobile Suicide took place. The Nokia N95 leapt from safety to the bottom of the toilet bowl. It was swiftly retrieved and stripped down and put out to dry. Mobile phones seldom survive complete immersion and I will...

Nokia N86 with 8 Megapixel Camera

Nokia have recenlty unveiled the Nokia N86. This latest of the superb N Series mobile phones boasts an 8 megapixel camera with Karl Zeiss lens. This will be a beauty I am sure. They have steered further away from the almost boxy exterior of the N95 to deliver a...

Lugubriousness

This is the state of mind you get into at times wher your feet are enshrouded by heavy mud. You are unable to make fleeting jumps or crackling leaps of faith or beauty. Then sometimes you wake from such a sluggardly geeling and your soul cries with pleasure, you are...

Big Surfboard

NSP LARGE, originally uploaded by s4m80. This is a little sad, and the image dimensions are all over the place, but it was a turning point in my life ( for the good or bad I dont know ) and I am like a butterfly turning frequently anyway. But I got my very own...

Save Brighton Marina Surf

Barack Obama , the newly appointed PResident of the USA yesterday was quizzed on CNN regarding the proposed development at the Brighton Marina and its predicted detrimental affect on the waves at 'Custard Point'. Obama commented : "I am completely against any...

Winter Surf in Shoreham

Just to let you know that this morning I was in the sea from 9-10.30 round the back of Shoreham Harbour, fully dressed in head to toe neoprene. The tide was very low (0.7m at lowest ) and the winter swell brought in some fine waves. I started out on a 9'6'' longboard...

New Year is Here

Christmas presents are a funny thing, it is said in many quarters that you end up getting a whole load of unwanted stuff each Christmas, certainly I have previoulsy been a victim of such occurences. This year things were different here is what I got : Wetsuit gloves -...

ready2invest

In an update to this thread I have been warned by many people tha buying off plan is a very risky business. In noway referring to ready2invest, but in general off plan property overseas investments can lead to tears, financial loss and heartache. In this world of such...

SEO Pub Quiz Winners

Last night at the Sovereign Pub in Brighton in an event hosted by Leapfrogg Juretic Media entered a SEO competition. The team gathered at the and surveyed the competition. The elite of Brighton's online marketing agencies were present and the Juretic Team were without...

iphone for the home

The ipod iphone delirium continues and I see normally sensible people go weak and jibbery over these gadgets. The Nokia N95 continues to offer a far superior OS and performance than the iphone. But do you think they will ever ( Apple that is ) start supplying the...

SMTP Problems on Windows Mobile

Had been having a few issues with my Samsung Omnia of late, particularly with the SMTP settings and somehow not allowing me to send emails. The mobile runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and, though familiar with the Windows configuration of POP and SMTP and IMAP and all the...

Hot Pipes

Hot Pipes, originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson. Raucously coloured waves bursting over Shoreham's Hot Pipes

Samsung Omnia Turned On

It was never going to be easy choosing between the Samsung Omnia and the HTC Touch Diamond to replace my Nokia N95 but in the end I was swayed by the Omnia's larger screen, higher onboard memory ( 16gig ) and DivX playback facility. I kind of knew at the time of...

Why I Love Google

Google have been around for some 10 years now and they have become a byword for an online search, a synonym with the speed and accessibility of the web. That is not all they do of course, the list is massive. Gmail - the nicest web based mail I have ever used...

Spam filter Irony

Just being raising up my spam filters to the max and realised what I was doing..... I am blocking all emails which offer the chance to get rich quick or the chance to have a larger willy. This is rather ironic to say the least......

Then End

San pethano ti tha poune, pethane enas leventis pou glendouse ti zoi, ax aman aman. Love echoes.

PC World lulling us into fat apathy

I could not believe what I heard on the radio this morning, a well known international vendor of PC's are offering mobile broadband service which will allow you to access the internet anytime, anywhere. What puzzled me is their choice of examples as to where this may...

Bored on the 4th July

Not really that much to say of late for which I apologise. Saw a nice site though which makes for extensive flash useage and grinding sound at http://www.pluginmedia.net/ - fair rockin I would say. Apart from that, I am chilled and feeling poetic....

Difficult is worth doing

The phrase Difficult is worth doing really underpins what Honda have both set out to achieve and have accomplished in making the adverts for the new Honda Accord. The adverts really give one a sense of grooviness of the car, they make you want to climb in, smell the...

Traffic TV on My Nokia 6500

I have had the Nokia 6500 slide for a while now and it is as I would have expected. But this has quite annoyed me. For a start, when I synchronise it with Nokia PC Suite it gives me the option to install Nokia Maps. i would like to, even though the mobile has no GPS...

Pension Release Eligibility

Pension Regulators have recently changed the way in which pension release applications will be handled, In particular the eligibility for pension unlocking. From April 2010 ( that is under two years away), the age at which you can apply for pension release will go up...

DCP850 Portable DVD Player

This is without doubt the most beautiful piece of equipment I have been fortunate enough to own for many years. Upon opening the package I was initially extremely impressed at the sleek white exterior of this portable DVD player, I open the Philips DCP850 up and the...

Cats and Cat People

Cats have never really turned me on to be sure. Like many people I find them to be slightly sinister, lazy, manipulative and condescending. I have never owned a cat nor will. I have never, to my knowledge killed one either but I may one day. You see, an old friend...

Self Publishing

Ok, I have been filling this blog with words and articles for a couple of years now and it is about time that I did what I always wanted to do and get down to some serious writing. No more of the 300 word posts about ephemeral items, but to write my novel. I have at...

Private Investigators in Brighton

I have never used a PI (Private Investigator) before and don't really know much about the industry, never having given it much thought. However recently I came across a company based in Brighton who offer Private Investigation work and covert surveillance ops so I...

Nokia 6500 Slide

OK, please ignore my post of yesterday, or was it the day before I am not sure. I looked at all the hugely featured mobiles available and came to the decision that it was time for something solid and sensible. A bit like the choice of a Nokia 6230 a few years ago. I...

Nokia N96 – power in your pocket

Just been on the Nokia site and I am transfixed again. They have managed to cram all of the features of the N95 into a newer, sleeker model, with 16 huge gigabytes of on board flash memory The ipod is dead, long live the N96 I can feel a certain longing feeling...

Sennheiser Headsets Rock

Man it must be a 'designer' think I thought to myself when Martin started setting himself up in the office. He had just started work with us, a web design and marketing company, when, on day two of his employment he appeared with a pair of Sennheiser headsets in his...

Vehicle Security

There is little doubt that in the modern world man ( or woman's) most treasured possession is often their car. Car's, you see, are many things. Primarily they are a mode of transport, but to think of a car on that way would be to see only a fraction of what a car...