Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

Yay my lense works
Photo by chrisg .. DSLRblog.com.
It seems through only the power of *wishing really hard* my kit lense is now fixed - hurrah!
I imagine it is still damaged, I mean it can’t have stopped working and started working without some wear and tear, right?
So do I send it for mendin’ or do I [...]

I am afraid associating with SEOs and affiliate marketers has made me cynical. I see ulterior motives in everything I see. Give you an example, DaveN has launched a blog about Paul McKenna and his diet-without-dieting approach called Diet Trials. Having been interested in NLP for about 15 years I have always been a fan [...]

Tykes Motto

Photo by Waiting for Cypher.

Roughly translated into English
See all, hear all say nothing,
Eat all, drink all, pay nothing,
And if you do anything for nothing,
Do it for yourself.
I am going to keep any more commentary on this subject to myself until I have emigrated out of Yorkshire! [...]

Oh retro joy! These really take me back!
We didn’t have a C64, we had the humble Vic20, but my cousin had the C64. I remember it fondly as a great machine, the games kicked bottom but I mainly remember if for the music.
Now you can play your favorites right in your browser, no money, install [...]

Via: THE RAW FEED: gadgets, games and geeks
The Register points out a location on Google Earth that appears to show a FLYING CAR. I want one.
Technorati Tags: flying, car, theregister, photograph

We’ve worked our collective arses off but it is finally here
Performancing Firefox 1.1 Delicious/Technorati Release!
As the link would suggest this version, as well as a ton of tweaks and bug fixes, integrates with Technorati and Del.icio.us
Try it out and do let us know what you think about it?

Technorati Tags: performancing, technorati, del.icio.us, blogging, firefox, [...]

In the UK we have what is laughingly referred to by “Two Jags” and the other fat cat politicians as an “integrated transport policy”. This basically means make it difficult and highly taxed to use cars while making it deeply unpleasant, expensive or nearly impossible to use public transport.
Unless you live in London, which is [...]

Since I packed in my “job” and started my own business I have found I can’t put things off other than my own projects. My priorities have now changed so much. Where just a couple of months ago I would work a bit, slack off a bit, take a break every so often and check [...]

I had heard about it before and thought it was one of those things that only 13 year old girls did, like a livejournal “learn about your friends” thing, but then I read about it on D’Arcys blog and thought what the heck let’s give it a try. And you know what?, it’s quite fun [...]