Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

I thought I would update you on my music selection this week. Mark recommends I use Metacritic to find new bands. My method until now has been to surf Last.fm starting with my current favourite acts and finding related artists. It’s worked pretty well so far.
So beginning with The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, et al I [...]

I just realised I haven’t been outside since I got back from San Diego. That can’t be good, can it? The only time I have left the house is to go in the car, and then either to the supermarket or the mall. I’m gonna need some oxygen I reckon, fast.
In fact, rather than typing [...]

There isn’t much I can say to this. The mind boggles. These people are in positions of authority in this damn country … just read it, and if you live outside the UK don’t bother visiting, there are much better places believe me …
Technology, Technology news, Times Online

A little while ago, I received [...]

While I was in San Diego I tried to explain our Television Tax here in the UK. I don’t think I did a particularly good job. It does though highlight how stupid this country is.
In the UK, just like if you want to own a gun, you have to have a license if you want [...]

So it seems Canada has been knocked out of the Winter Olympics Ice hockey by Russia. Not a bad team to lose to but a kick in the nuts all the same.
I only managed to catch the highlights (low lights) as I was working until some ungodly hour this morning (which I am sure doubled [...]

Just testing the latest version of Performancing for Firefox. Move along, nothing to see here ;O)

Well I have been so busy since I returned that I forgot to update this blog here, so here I am recitificationing.
San Diego was … work. I really can’t say what San Diego was like. It was like going to an office every day on a big-assed highway surrounded by palm trees and the threat [...]

Nick: "Where is our taxi??" Photo by chrisg .. DSLRblog.com.
"WTF is our taxi??"
We are not having much luck with customer service, not sure if it is because we are English or if customer service is just not something that happens here ..
Even though we were stood looking at the signs that say "4001" "pearson [...]

TeamDroid » 3D Image Projector With Frickin Lasers
A research firm in Japan has “developed a device that uses lasers to project real three-dimensional images in mid-air.” Sounds cool, but that’s not all. It does this by exploding the air forming a brilliant white plasma.
At the demonstration, bursts of [...]

I just realised it is my Blogiversary! Well, it was two days ago. Looking at the “Wayback Machine” my first proper blog entry was Friday 5th February 1999, which means I have been blogging 7 years!
Check out my first “Blog”. It’s not that interesting, I didn’t really know what I was doing.

Due to some not-so-clever [...]