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So, its been a while

Blimey, its been a while.

I suppose biggest thing that has happened is that the NHS hav extended my contract (WOOT!). It was set to expire at the end of March but after asking they have extended by another 3 months till June which is great to have a constant pay cheque coming through for a [...]

A Night At The Bostin Pie Factory

So last night (Saturday 30th Jan 2010) I went to Mad O’Roukes Bostin Pie Factory, with Gez (my father in law) and Rosie (my sister in law). Katie and Ange were off having a girls night with Katie’s auntie Sara celebrating her birthday. I’d never been to the pie factory but had driven past it loads of time [...]

ESPRadio 28/01/10

Another fine ESPRadio show use the listen again button below or follow the direct link. For full show notes check the website.

This show we talk about the iPad, a Lost special report, MAG and Mass Effect 2. Oh and some excellent [...]

A Brand New ESPRadio

Its a new year and that means a new ESP Radio Show. Talking about this years (well at least the next few months worth of) up coming games, film, tv and technology. To listen again use the link below (there is a small pause of 30 seconds about 10 mins into the listen again, where the [...]

Avatar

On Thursday, after the show Katie and I went to see avatar in IMAX 3D (yes thats how the pronounce it). I have to say it lived up to the hype in everything except the story. It is a beautifully stunning film to watch, colours popping out the screen, objects flying past the screen. What I was really pleased [...]

Key Points When Installing New Memory In A Macbook

So I recently update the ram on the macbook and have increased it to 2Gb (ram prices at the mo are quite pricey). I’m quite used to installing new hardware on a PC but this was the first time I had done it on a Mac and thought I would share some keypoints, wish I which [...]

Possibly The Geekiest Thing In Birmingham? #Hackitude

So currently its 02:02am in Aquila TV headquarters and I am working with the people at the Hackitude Event [http://hackitude.org/] so far we are working on an idea that was suggested by Dave Harte about monitoring and accessing Allotment data but are trying to keep it generic enough so that we can scale this to other things and [...]

How To Propose To Your Wife (When you are already married) Part Two

So after my first attempt, I decided I would up the ante and get Katie and ring. After hunting around for a bag of Haribo I managed to find one with a ring, so the next step was to grab 2 Kinder eggs (incase I broke the first one) and carefully open it place the jelly [...]

How to propose to wife (when you are already married) Part One

Recently after watching (500) Days of Summer [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1022603/], which is a brilliant film BTW. I decided to propose to Katie in some particularly creative ways. She did say yes when I originally asked but I decided that I would do something slightly more creative than when I first asked her. This attempt below is my first [...]