well I am still in bellevue (just outside seattle) the trips to frys are now becomeing essential to stop me going NUTS,
I actually get to come home for easter, so have a pleasent 16+ hoiur door to door experiance ahead,
Flying via Denmark, but apprenlty SAS business class was 2000 quid per person cheaper the BA [...]

Due to an attack of SEVERE boredem, i went to the cinema on my own.
what and ODD experiance,
1. discovered my “English” accent is incomprehencable via those daft screen with intercoms built in, either that or the bloke was a twat (time to send in the brumies or the scots see what he make of that)
2. [...]

Though I would try Vista on my laptop, nothing is ever simple
NEW hard disk and some more RAM (US prices are Sooo reasonable)
install was great, than came the fun
Sky Anytime requires admin rights to run (something which Vista does not give away lightly), i then had to phone sky to tell them i had rebuilt [...]

Just a quick note to compare and contast two different Virtual Computer tehnologies
VMWare, One free package which will support many OS in a host machine, regardless of host OS
Microsoft, Virtual PC or Server, which depends on the Host OS NOT the Guest !
{EDIT} they will both run on any Os, the difference seems to be [...]

Well i am still in seattle, 10 days now, and getting very pissed off,
there is only so much all expenses paid , one can take !
so here is a list of amerian-ism, some language, some culture
Right turn :- you can turn right when the lights are RED
Sidewalk :- means pavement
pavement :- means ROAD
The store :- [...]

Well, its me again, sat in my hotel room in Seattle
due ti the fact i have NO Sci-Fi channel on the TV in my room, I thought i woudl re visit Sky Anytime, formerly known as Sky by Broadband
I??dont really like it because it is a peer to peer system and therefore a bandwidth hogger [...]

Saturdy night, 4500 miles from the wife and kids and it is raining in Seattle (Bellevue to be precise)
No Sci-Fi channel in the hotel, no NO stargate etc
So figured I would go and see what i can find with the camera??and?? thought i would share some of the better shots

Imagine this,??Maplins, PCWorld, Farnell and RS Components buy an old ASDA store, and setup a BIG retail outlet….
Then you wold have FRYS,
I have been to FRYS electronics store on Renton near seattle,
The place should come with a health warning for your bank account….??
from resistors??to??PCs to PC spares to HiFi to TV to Books, if it [...]

Snooker for Americans 5 Year olds
Been to the pool hall again and was happily potting spots and stripes (Remember them)
when i noticed the balls on the near by snooker table had their points value marked on them
Now all the player has to do is add them up !!!!!
????

Most meeting agendas have a bit on comfort , health and saftey,
Fire exits are here , here and here, toilets are there, and the coffee machine take tokens type stuff
Same in a hotel rooms etc
Well, this came as a bit of a shock, excuse the PUN !
When the hotel and meeting included a EARTHQUAKE briefing [...]