17 Jan
Im getting shot my Mazda 3 and getting a rather spanking Audi A5 Sline:

Im looking to sell the mazda around the end of Feb so if you know anyone after one give me a shout.
Some pictures of the Mazda here:
Linky
The car is 1.5 years old with 20K miles on the clock and 9 months tax with the following spec
Petrol 1.6 Ltr
Leather bound steering wheel and gear stick
6 CD Changer
Piano black interior
Parrot hands free kit
Rear parking sensors
Cheers
Nino
13 Dec
I’ve been really bad about posting on the blog, here’s a few quick reviews on some movies we’ve watched:
Moon
Didn’t even see this advertised in the cinema. Quite a good movie and well worth the watch, it was the directors first movie AFAIK and it is a little predictable in places but still a good movie.
Law Abiding Citizen
Very smart movie and not the killing fest I had originally thought it was going to be. Not to give too much away but Butler would kick Michael Scofield’s ass!!!
2012
yes another disaster movie, we’re all going to dieeeeeee. I went into this not expecting much, I was just surprised john cussack was still alive! Again worth a watch but after any other movies that are on your list. Woody Haralson played an excellent character which was one redeeming feature.
Michael Jackson- This is it
Shit, thank god that “this is it”!
Avatar 3D
Simply amazing, there were no slow/boring parts just constant blue fun!! I don’t know if it was the 3D or the movie but id definitely want to see it again
Where the Wild Things Are
I don’t know, thought it was shit but maybe I didn’t get it?
The taking of Pelham 123
Run of the mill action/thriller nothing smart and no thinking required but good for a watch.
Aliens Vs Monsters
Typical kids animated movie, good fun for all!
30 Nov
Dear facebook devs/admins
I have little to no interest in the following areas:
what random animal has been on on a farm
what random crop somone is growing
what random item someone is looking for on Mafia wars
who someone is whacking on mafia wars
how close someone is coming to being a vampire
what someone’s score is on some random jewel bashing game
how someone has adopted some “super poke pet” and it’s giving me a poke ( I think this one borders on sexual harassment and genticially modified animals)
Please, please create a block all applications option!
Many thanks
07 Nov
I can see the advantages to apple’s app store, all the applications are code reviewed (I don’t know how well) to ensure that your iPhone experience is as seamless and smooth as possible. Poorly coded apps are refused until they are brought up to the required standard. Another advantage is the added security of knowing that the apps will not have any malicious code etc…. we would like to think!!
Jailbreaking the device allows you to install 3rd party apps that do not go through the same testing and could have malicious code. This has always been a worry of mine (yes I need to get out more) to the point of turning off the GSM data of the phone forcing it to use wifi and analysing the traffic over a 24 hour period to ensure my email and contacts were not being uploaded to china/russia!!
The iPhone firewall app in the cydia app store hooks into all the apps and when a connection is made the user is prompted to allow or deny the connection like a standard firewall. At the minute it looks like it only blocks GUI apps and any commands executed on the BSD under system are free to do what they want which is a little off putting. Then again I did say that we can’t trust 3rd party apps……. the firewall app is a 3rd party app….. Perhaps it’s time for the tin foil hats?
Nino

01 Nov
My media server has been going black after 10 minutes of full screen movie loveage, originally i thought it was the screen saver but with it being disabled it was something else. The following lines added to the end of your xorg.conf should solve the problem:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "blank time" "0"
Option "standby time" "0"
Option "suspend time" "0"
Option "off time" "0"
EndSection
via ubuntu forums