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Francis — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:27:01 +0000

Right, sorry about the small number of blog posts over the last few months. It’s never been a daily event, but I’m starting to realise that most ideas for posts come to me while I’m on the bus or just walking about. I have my mobile decked up with a WordPress app to write, but typing a blog post on a screen keyboard would be tantamount to ripping my nails out with a spoon then pouring lemon juice over them.

Anyway, enough. I will try to write more, not much more so you have even more to read on your already packed RSS reader (Mashable? anyone? How many posts do they need in a day?), but more 1 post every now and again.

Google Streetview conversation

Francis — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:19:35 +0000

I saw this video on College Humour the other day and had to post it. I did wonder what the conversation was like in the Streetview car.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1922981

Don’t dial 0870

Francis — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:41:42 +0000

There are days when you need to contact a company’s customer services of some kind. You tend to call and have to wait for them to pick up, sometimes for 1 minute, sometimes 10, sometimes 1 hour. A lot of the time, these services have an 0870 number which is a national rate phone number which can get quite expensive if you are spending a long time, and generally, on your mobile, this will not be used on your free minutes.

So I went an discovered something that is genius, or helpful at the very least. 0870 numbers have to be attached to a normal landline number. There is a site that has these landline numbers in a database and it is called SayNoTo0870. You can then look up the 0870 number or company name, and get the cheaper normal landline number. Brilliant!

Now go and save those pennies!

World’s greatest unboxing

Francis — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:36:37 +0000

I’ve just seen something wonderful. For anyone not au fait with unboxings, they are usually a video or sequence of photographs showing the packaging of a product, for example, an ipod. It’s usually done by Apple fans as Apple’s product wrapping is great. This one’s, erm… quite different.

New “bury your wife” kit

Francis — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:08:22 +0000

Today, this is making me chuckle.

I was reading one of my favourite sites Uncrate and it had this. The reason why it’s making me chuckle is, I have never seen anything so obviously geared for killing and burying someone. A shovel, knife, hatchet, torch (for the night time burial) and to top it, the multi tool with pliers (to make sure he or she won’t be identified by their teeth). All it’s missing is the matches.

Lovely! Now I don’t know whether to categorise this as “life stuff” or to have to make another category.