home

Mercedes C-Class 2008

Logged Tuesday, 6th May 2008 - Gadgets - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Warwick and Warwick Castle, UK

Logged Monday, 5th May 2008 - Travel - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Drinks at solar, Berlin, Germany

Logged Tuesday, 29th April 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Nola's Am Weinberg, Berlin, Germany

Logged Tuesday, 29th April 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK

Logged Sunday, 27th April 2008 - Travel - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Lunch at The Eagle in the RAF Bar, Cambridge, UK

Logged Saturday, 26th April 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Hotel Du Vin, Cambridge, UK

Logged Saturday, 26th April 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Cambridge, UK

Logged Saturday, 26th April 2008 - Travel - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Cut Copy, The Scala, London, UK

Logged Wednesday, 23rd April 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California, USA

Logged Saturday, 12th April 2008 - Travel - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

What's new in April 2008

Logged Friday, 4th April 2008 - Daily - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

• Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3) - gorgeous driving game for the PS3. Definitely the most realistic graphics I've seen in a drving game and more than manageable driving physics when using the handheld controller (rather than a steering wheel)
• Xbox 360 Wireless Wheel (Xbox 360) - very nice gadget, the force feedback really means that it needs to be bolted down rather than rested on you lap. Great for Colin McRae: DIRT (Xbox 360) and Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox 360).
• iPhone - first gen limitations aside (eg. No umts, hsdpa or gps) the iPhone has grown on me. So nice to have Safari (Flash support please!), and 16gb audio and video podcasts at hand to get through boring commutes. WiFi is gorgeously seamless, hoping on trusted networks automatically. Email client is much better than blackberry, with gorgeous rendering of html emails. Definitely not as quick to type on as BlackBerry, but so much sexier. Looking forward to proper Exchange support in firmware 1.2.
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Xbox 360) - next release of my favourite 360 FPS. Excellent game, very playable great multiplayer.

Sunshine (2007)

Logged Sunday, 30th March 2008 - Movies - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Drinks at Brook Green Hotel, Hammersmith, London, UK

Logged Sunday, 30th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Much Ado About Nothing, National Theatre, London, UK

Logged Saturday, 29th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Strada, Southbank, London, UK

Logged Saturday, 29th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Drinks at Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, Shoreditch, London, UK

Logged Friday, 28th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Drinks at The Green, Clerkenwell, London, UK

Logged Friday, 28th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Dans le Noir, London, UK

Logged Friday, 28th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Drinks at So Bar, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Logged Thursday, 27th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Velvet Revolver at Brixton Academy, London, UK

Logged Tuesday, 25th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Stone Masons Arms, London, UK

Logged Monday, 24th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at The Grove, Hammersmith, London, UK

Logged Saturday, 22nd March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Drinks at Match Bar, Oxford Circus, London, UK

Logged Friday, 14th March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Lunch at The Swan, Paddington, London, UK

Logged Sunday, 2nd March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Drinks at Vibe Lounge, Brick Lane, London, UK

Logged Saturday, 1st March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Papadoms, Brick Lane, London, UK

Logged Saturday, 1st March 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Asia de Cuba, London, UK

Logged Friday, 29th February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Udon by Nobu, London, UK

Logged Thursday, 28th February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Stone Masons Arms, London, UK

Logged Wednesday, 27th February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Drinks at Pabyen, Tromso, Norway

Logged Monday, 25th February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Lunch at Meieriet, Tromso, Norway

Logged Monday, 25th February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Visited the Polaria, Tromso, Norway

Logged Sunday, 24th February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dog sledding at night with 14 Alaskan Huskies

Logged Sunday, 24th February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Saw the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights), Norway

Logged Sunday, 24th February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (1)

Dinner at Steakers, Tromso, Norway

Logged Saturday, 23rd February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Tromso, Norway

Logged Saturday, 23rd February 2008 - Travel - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

National Gallery, Oslo, Norway

Logged Friday, 22nd February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Nobolis, Oslo, Norway

Logged Friday, 22nd February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Lunch at Mucho Mas, Oslo, Norway

Logged Friday, 22nd February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Dinner at Palace Grill, Oslo, Norway

Logged Thursday, 21st February 2008 - Activities - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

Oslo, Norway

Logged Wednesday, 20th February 2008 - Travel - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

2008 year ahead short-list

Logged Tuesday, 19th February 2008 - Events - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

• Travel confirmed: Oslo/Tromso, Norway (February), Berlin, Germany (April) and Cancun, Mexico (May)
• Travel tentative: Egypt and Switzerland
• RIAT 2008 Airshow (12th-13th July)
• Lovebox Weekender 2008 (Saturday 19th-Sunday 20th July)
• The Secret Garden 2008 (Thursday 24th-Sunday 27th July)
• GlobalGathering 2008 (25th-26th July)
• Red Bull Air Race, London, Thames (2nd-3rd August)
• V Festival Chelmsford 2008 (Saturday 16th-Sunday 17th August)
• South West Four 2008 (Saturday 23rd August)
• The Chemical Brothers, Olympia (Saturday 30th August)
• Bestival 2008 (Friday 5th - Sunday 7th September)
• Mighty Boosh 08 Tour - tickets sold out!

Getting Things Done for Outlook -- The anthonyjhicks.com System

Logged Monday, 18th February 2008 - Work - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

• Print the image above on a colour printer, cut it down to card size and stick it to your monitor.
• Group your Inbox by Flag Status and sort by Header Status so the Red flag appears at the top.
• Set your default flag to Blue.
• Use your Inbox from the bottom, knock over the > 2 minute tasks straightaway.
• Prioritise the rest using the appropriate flags.
• Use Reference sparingly. I usually keep Low Priority and Reference collapsed in the Inbox view.
• Email tasks to yourself that don't arrive as an actionable email from someone else.

What's new in 2008

Logged Monday, 18th February 2008 - Daily - Perma-Link - Comments (0)

• Xobni - quite possibly the best Outlook plug-in ever.
• Utah Saints Something Good '08 - I must learn the running man!
• Guitar Hero III - on the Xbox360. Loving the wireless guitar.
• Crysis - gorgeous DirectX 10 first person shooter. Okay, so you need a super computer to run it at anything other than medium quality settings, but it's still a great game and very very pretty.
• Philips 9" Digital Photo Frame - received this as a present, would never have thought to buy one myself, but my opinion has changed digital photo frames are great. Must have!
• this isn't happiness., FFFFOUND! and vi.sualize.us - found hundreds of vintage and quirky photos at these sites to put on my digital photo frame.
• GN Netcom 9350 - one at home, one at work. I use them for all my land line and Skype calling. One of my most used gadgets.
• Netvibes - I've been an iGoogle user for several months, unfortunately the product has seen little in the way of upgrades. Netvibes is so much better, I have my entire view of the net world arranged into 20 tabs (and it works mobile too).
• Shuttle XPC SG33G6 Deluxe (Glamour Series) - I'm using one of these as a Media PC running Vista Ultimate on the main TV in the living room. Comes with HDMI, eSATA and Optical connectors as standard.
• Retro Casio Calculator Watches - currently wearing a silver Databank 150
• Family Guy - I may well be the last person on the planet to discover the brilliance of Family Guy. Have been buying all the DVDs.
• Blu-ray - I was fairly neutral on the whole Blue-ray vs HD DVD at the start. The only factor that leans to me Blu-ray, is that my Xbox 360 with all it's cooling fans is way too noisy to be used for movie viewing, where-as the PS3 is whisper quiet - as a result I'll always opt for a Blu-ray disc if I can.
• Saitek X52 Pro Flight System - quality flight simulator controls without going too geeky.
• Skype - I have local numbers in Australia, USA and UK into my Skype account, automatic diversion to multiple phones if I don't answer on Skype, plus Pro gives me free calls to certain numbers and super cheap call forwarding for international calls on my mobile. Great call quality. Love using it on the main TV along with the Polycom Soundstation 2 for handsfree and a Creative Live! Cam Optia Auto Focus for video. Using it at both home and work with the GN Netcom 9350 headsets too.
• Opera Mini 4 - barely a month out of beta and already a million downloads. Excellent mobile browser. Have been using the beta for ages, so great to see the final build. Works on both my Sony Ericsson and BlackBerry.
• Behringer XENYX 502 and Tapco Mix 50 mixers - I have the Behringer at work mixing outputs from my Notebook dock and iPod dock into my headphones, and the Tapco at home mixing my Sky box and Media PC in the bedroom. Very handy little mixers and a tiny price.

• Super Mario Galaxy - on the Wii. It's okay. Still struggling to find something other than bowling to justify my Wii.
• Facebook - it's more of a tool now than a daily destination for me now. No matter how much I try and fight all the application spam, SuperWalls, Zombies invites, my feed is flooded with junk. I miss the old days when it purely contained relevant updates from your friends by the core apps: photos, groups and posted items.
• Sky HD - very few interesting channels, far too many ads, nothing on. Same old story.
• Mac Book Pro - it's okay. Thinking I might buy a new Thinkpad and get rid of the Apple (just as soon as I send it in to have all the broken things fixed before the warranty expires - dodgy power switch, sleep wakeup problem etc etc).
• iPhone's lack of 3G or HSDPA support - still waiting to buy an iPhone, but no way for an EDGE device locked in on an 18 month contract. Hurry up and release a device that is good for the UK networks Apple. No wonder the sales have been so dismal in UK compared to the US.

Fearless [HD DVD]

Logged Tuesday, 29th January 2008 - Movies - Perma-Link - Comments (0)