Tuesday, January 22, 2008

You know you're from Somerset when...

.....You thinks Bath's a big city

.... You can tell sheep from goats

.... You know why to avoid Bridgwater

.... You think Bristol is 'up north'

.... The smell of cow sh*t makes you feel at home

.... Everywhere else in the UK feels cold

.... You learnt to drive in a field or on a beach

.... You know Tesco doesn't make meat, eggs, milk etc.

... When the sun goes down it gets dark

.... Your local newspaper's headline is 'cow falls off bridge'

.... You turned to drink, drugs or heavy metal at an early age

.... Your 4x4 has mud on it and it doesn't do the school run

.... You get excited/worried if you ever go on a motorway

.... Your friends say you sound like a farmer

.... You have nothing to do after 5:30pm

.... You think pink wellies are a fashion statement

.... You know how to walk over a cattle grid

.... 'Short and choppy on the North coast' makes total sense to you

.... You think nothing of grass growing in the middle of the road

.... You know all your neighbours

.... Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you think a young farmers' disco is a wild night out

.... Until you went on holiday, the tallest building you had ever seen was Debenhams in Taunton

.... You drink real ale

.... You went to London............ once...........

.... It takes you 4 times longer to drive anywhere between May and September

.... You're a closet fan of The Wurzels

... Your second cousin is also your sister's stepmother

.... Your neighbours' average age is 76

.... You can buy most of your wardrobe at Mole Valley Farmers

.... Your best friend goes joyriding in tractors

.... You can't stand the tourists, despite living off their money

.... You thought it was normal for more than 50% of your high street's shops to be operated by charities

.....Biggest story on the local TV news is a cat locked in a shed for 2 days in Yeovil

.....Second biggest story, man fell off his bike in Glastonbury

...You take a torch to the pub

...Your entire phone number used to have 3 digits, it now has 6!

...You suffer from advanced lead poisoning from eating blackberries from hedgerows throughout the 80s.

.... Your car has mud and straw in the boot

....You know mud is supposed to be reddish

....You haven't gone to the Glastonbury Festival since they improved the security fences

....And you still call it the Pilton Pop Festival

....you know the smell of cellophane

....by the time you are legally old enough to drink, you've already had enough cider to last a lifetime

....your escape plans involve Berry's Coaches

....you've been up the Wellington Monument

....the only non-white people you've met were running takeaways

....thankfully, your accent mysteriously broadens as you enter country pubs

....you've broken into Vivary Park after dark

....you sneeze and the whole town gets a cold

....you called shoes for PE at school, daps

....You think County Stores is in the same league as Harrods

Friday, January 18, 2008

End of the road for Robbie Williams?

EMI "is understood to have more than a million unsold copies of Robbie Williams's Rudebox album, which it will send to China to be crushed up and used in road surfacing and street lighting."

Read more from The Guardian

Thursday, January 17, 2008

MacBook Air: Bold and lovely but impractical



So the MacBook Air is designed to be a wireless machine? Right Steve. I speak from experience with cut-down laptops when I say, to actually use it properly, you'll need to have several cables coming out of it to connect to the kit that the chassis isn't big enough to take.
 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

In case you haven't seen it...

...watch Bill's last day from his keynote at CES 2008

CES 2008: So what was it all about?


The final day of the 2008 International CES has been and gone. So what have we learned?

One thing's for sure - if an alien visitor landed at CES it would have a pretty good idea who's going to win the HD format war. Despite protestations from HD DVD's key advocates and some determined fence-sitting analysts, the show had the answer written all over it.

Read more

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Extremely Urgent

-----Original Message-----
From: LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM [mailto:William@usmarine.com]
Sent: 26 December 2007 14:48
To: dan.grabham@futurenet.co.uk
Subject: Re:Extremely Urgent

Attention ....

Greetings to you!

I am Lieutenant Colonel William Adams...a US MARINE in Iraq.As you may Know,there are several cases of insurgents attacks and suicide bombing going on here.However We managed to move funds belonging to some deceased persons who were attacked and killed through insurgent attacks.The total amount is US$25 Million dollars in cash.

We want to move this money to you so that you may keep our share for us untill when we shall come over to meet You. We will take 70%, my partner and I while you take 30%.No strings attached.Just help us move it out of Iraq as Iraq we all know is a war zone.Note that We plan to use the British Diplomatic courier in shipping the money out in two large metallic Boxes,using diplomatic immunity.If you are interested I will send you the full details.

My job is to find a good partner that we can trust and that will assist us. Can I trust you? When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail signifying your interest including your most confidential telephone/fax numbers for quick communication and also your contact details. This business is risk free. Get back to me for more directives.

Respectfully,

Lieutenant Colonel Williams Adams

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