RIP Pamela Willis

Posted by James Marriott on February 26, 2010 under Personal | Read the First Comment

Pamela Willis sitting in her car

Pamela Willis, Pammy, Freckles.

On Monday 22nd February, 2010 the world lost its sparkle.

Pam used to annoy the crap out of me. The expressions she uses – notibly “how about no” – and ending sentances with the word “so”; her stubborness clashed with mine which… Read the rest

Fate

Posted by James Marriott on April 6, 2010 under Religion / Politics | Be the First to Comment

In this blog I want to very briefly discuss what fate is, what it means and to question your belief in it. This blog is a summary of a very long essay I once wrote on the subject of fate but that went on for over 5,000 words (boy… Read the rest

TomTom satnav now offering live traffic updates

Posted by James Marriott on March 16, 2010 under Morotoring, Traffic | Be the First to Comment

Now that you can download satellite navigation (sat nav) applications to phones such as the T-Mobile G2 (aka HTC Hero), the makers of in-car satnav products need to come up with something new and better to ensure that we keep forking out the £100’s on their products.

By a… Read the rest

Web User Magazine Misleads Readers About Firefox

Posted by James Marriott on September 6, 2009 under I.T., Media | Be the First to Comment

Web User is a popular publication for people looking for help and advice with all things web related however, over the years I have been increasingly disturbed by the number of articles that seem -to me at least- to contain misleading information.

Today, I came across an article titled… Read the rest

Linux and Ubuntu

Posted by James Marriott on August 1, 2009 under Computer / Internet, I.T. | Be the First to Comment

It’s been a long time coming but finally, here’s my blog about Linux and my experience over the past few years with Ubuntu.

Now I know to most of you that was all gibberish. To a lot of you though that are used to my ramblings it probably doesn’t… Read the rest

Microsoft extends support for internet explorer 6

Posted by James Marriott on July 5, 2009 under Computer / Internet | Be the First to Comment

Microsoft recently announced that it will continue to support IE6 (internet explorer version 6) until 2014 despite the fact it has now been superseded twice (current version is IE8) and once again web developers and designers (like me) across the world let out yet another defeated groan.
Microsoft’s… Read the rest

cantankerous old bastard

Posted by James Marriott on June 26, 2009 under Personal | Be the First to Comment

Cantankerous:  Difficult or irritating to deal with <a cantankerous mule> (Merriam-Webster). Stubborn, cranky, surly, ill-humored, irritable (Wiktionary). Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable (Answers.com)

It’s such a fantastic word. Lots of syllables. An old word that’s seldom used today. Perhaps that’s a sign that people are much nicer now than they… Read the rest

I saw you, but you didn’t see me

Posted by James Marriott on March 8, 2009 under Personal, Traffic | Be the First to Comment

I came across this on MySpace and thought it was so good that I’m going to quote it here. Written by (or at least, posted by) someone called Billie Williams and it makes me cry every time I read it.

"I saw you, but you didn’t see me.

I… Read the rest

Aprilia RSV Factory vs Fireblade vs R1

Posted by James Marriott on March 4, 2009 under Morotoring | Be the First to Comment

Honda make what I consider to be the finest piece of motorcycle technology ever created, the CBR1000RR Fireblade. This bike started out back in about 92 as the CBR900RR. The bike that finally stole the number 1 spot away from my beloved Yamaha FZR1000.
Since that time we… Read the rest

Twitter Twitter Tweet Tweet

Posted by James Marriott on March 2, 2009 under Personal, Social Networking | Be the First to Comment

I really really don’t like Facebook. I don’t like how difficult it is to control privacy. I don’t like all the stupid application.

I like MySpace more. It’s the original. It’s not so annoying. I still don’t really use it though. It’s just another medium to advertise me.

I… Read the rest