Cragnet

I was in Newcastle Under Lyme today and had parked up in preparation for my usual visit to the job centre to sign on. In the car park there was a vehicle that had the colours of a bugatti veyron, a simiar shape to an audi tt but looks like it was sitting on an mgf chasis... Here are the pics of the original vehicles against the pictures I took. Bugatti Veyron Audi TT MGF

I recently had to send my EEE PC (904ha/xp) back to Asus to resolve an issue. Unlike other laptops I have had in the past there seem an issue with this machine in that the battery was never 100% charged. I read online about the issue and they all referred to contacting Asus for a swap out. Although the laptop was on charge for over 48 hours constant, or it is was being used on the mains the led light for the power was always red/orange. On reading the manual it said that this colour indicated the battery was between 80-100% capacity. A solid green indicated 100% capacity. After several emails to Asus it was agreed to send the unit back for repair. I prepped the machine for delivery by backing it up with Ghost as I didn't want to waste three days rebuilding it again. Wiped the hard drive clean and sent it back. Two days later it was returned... The note inside from the engineer said LED lights displaying correctly, no OS on Hard drive so reinstalled OS. This is where my confusio

I was at a friends last night giving their PC a check over - I would call this more akin to a yearly car service. My friend asked the question I usually get - what security protection do you use? Nowadays being a linux user I have AV installed but don't use it in realtime and either use the built in linux firewall or rely on my router's firewall. Due to the lack of linux based malware or viruses I am confident this will keep my machine clear but am still wary what I either download or click on. In time this may change as more people begin to use linux but now it is relatively secure. I mentioned this to my friend but did say on the two windows machines that I have I use freely available products such as Free AVG and spybot. Using these and being wary what is either being downloaded or clicked on are usually sufficient to catch most things. My friend was running McAffee that was bundled with his broadband provider but costs per year. He was quite surprised to find that

You then need to convert your atom feed into an RSS one. I used feedburner then followed the below. http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/creating-rss-feed-for-your-blogspot-blog/

I have just followed this guide to see if I can add my blog updates to face book. http://weblogs.about.com/od/socialnetworking/ht/AddBlogFacebook.htm This is a test to see if it works

I have recently started a new topic post over at my-symbian about the 16gb compatibility of the Nokia 5800XM. The link to the thread is http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=359029#359029 It appears there are several others having this issue but I have not seen any official postings/news items regarding it. Whilst I can use my 8gb card in the phone it does limit how much I can store and render the 16gb card I had as useless. However it does ask one question is the phone genuinely compatible with 16gb or higher or can it be fixed in a new firmware? Lets hope we hear something soon.

My car is a Nissan X-Trail 4x4. I have often thought the back is big enough to sleep in but it would be nicer to have a litte more room. I came across the following link on the x-trail digest for a suv tent. http://tinyurl.com/SUVtent Although it is expensive I like the idea and hope they do come down in price. Sent from my Nokia Tube

I have now had my nokia 5800 for 3 weeks but it has been an up road struggle. I have always enjoyed touch screen phones where my first was a p800. Before this I had a catalogue of touch pdas such as the psion 5,7 , the palm v, the handspring visor, hp jornada 629, compaq ipaq , hp jornada phone/ pda so I have some experience when it comes to tapping a screen. I got an iphone last year shortly after they came out in the uk to see if I would like it. For me, this felt like a heavy weight boxing game as I hadn't had an apple device before, I have big expectations from mobile devices as I am a heavy user and there was a question if the iphone could cope with me. Lets just say it was short lived and after 2 months it was back on eBay . I loved the interface, the web browsing was perfect and it was great to type on. I hated the closed environment where you were locked into Itunes and the Apple way of doing things. With my other devices such as Windows Mobile or Symbian

For all those who are interested I have just read on lifehacker http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/EUyt7C_M7Qo/google-sync- keeps-contacts-and-calendars-in-sync-on-your-mobile-phone that google has started a new sync service for mobiles. The instructions for S60 can be found at http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=98230&topic= 15015 Currently the service only support two way contacts sync using syncml. What is unusual that they make use of an exchange service for syncing with the iphone and windows mobile handsets using activesync. However, this does not work with Mail For Exchange but Google says it will support this soon - http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138784&topic =15014 I have previously tried services like Goosync and have found them hideous especially when syncing across several devices with different OS. Examples being All day events not showing correctly. I will be interested to hear from people how they have f