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Entries from July 2008

Live Search makes gains in France!

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Live Search making really good gains in France

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Tags: asides

In my Inbox today…

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

I think that the hype for series 5 of Lost is starting very early…

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Tags: TV

Cuil – a new search competitor

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Cuil is a new search engine – from some ex-googlers, it launched last nights with amazing claims of having indexed 121,617,892,992 pages (yep – 121 billion).
So – as always with a new search engine, you hop on over for a quick ego-surf – and here are the results:
Live Search for Matt Rutherford – number [...]

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Tags: microsoft · other sites

Review : The Dark Knight

July 26th, 2008 · No Comments

I finally took my chance to go and see The Dark Knight yesterday, and despite all my anticipation, I wasn’t disappointed. Neither is everyone else – it is getting great reviews and has shot to the top of the IMDB 250.
Sure, Christian Bale is brilliant, bringing the darkness of Batman to the screen once [...]

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Tags: movies

Virgin Trains Website – Epic Fail

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Throw me a f*cking bone here…this is the shittiest customer experience ever!

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Tags: random

10 Amazing Ghost Towns

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments

These are amazing – 10 ghost towns from around the world – I’ve been to one.

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Tags: asides

Southwell Minster - 1945

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Southwell – home to a racecourse, and as I found out today – this lovely minster.
Sent in 1945 fron Southwell in Nottinghamshire, to Willow Avenue in Birmingham.
Click more for the full message

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Tags: postcards

Windows Live Messenger for Blackberry

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I know a few of you use them – now there is Live Messenger for your CrBlackBerry.

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Tags: asides

Blogger relief from Berocca

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Berocca are giving away some ‘blogger relief’ packs….which I guess will contain tubes of their vitamin-c loaded craziness (I love those buggers when I’m suffering from a cold – or jetlag), and some other groovy stuff.
I stuck my name down…might get something nice for free!

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Tags: other sites · random

Amy gets her dummy at Madame Tussauds

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

This must be the first time that the dummy looks *healthier* than the real person.

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Tags: asides