Jonners' Canterbury Tales

Games to look forward to in the second half of 2010

Posted on July 15, 2010 by jonners99No Comments

So earlier in the year I made a list of the games I was looking forward to in the first six months of 2010. That list was populated by a lot of games that should have seen release last year but were scared by Call of Duty. In comparison the second half of 2010 is looking slightly empty but I am still catching up on the last six months so I don’t mind.

Fun times in Crawley

Posted on June 6, 2010 by jonners99No Comments

Last Sunday we had our first karting event of 2010 which also represents the first ever Talote Racing championship race (sad huh?). Information is going to be slightly short due to two things, first we had no-one to take photos and second we were not provided with any lap times barring our fastest as their printer was broken. We therefore had to just remember our fastest times

We turned up at the track and were led up to the second track (which we had never seen or raced before):

Thoughts on an Independent trial

Posted on May 26, 2010 by jonners99No Comments

For the last four weeks I have been trialling the subscription service offered by the Independent. I have often felt that newspapers still hold value and was turned off the Times by both its online Pay-Per-day system for news articles and its blatant pro-tory message during the election. I therefore went with the newspaper that I read during college.

It was such a good deal as well, at least at trial stage. four pounds for a four week subscription. It then goes up to £5 a week for which you get the weekday papers plus the Saturday edition.

My day at Internet World 2010

Posted on April 27, 2010 by jonners991 Comment

So last year I went to the Internet World conference at Earls Court unsure what I would find. I came out having visited many useful speeches from knowledgeable people about the Internet.

Browser rankings

Posted on April 17, 2010 by jonners992 Comments

So a month ago we saw Microsoft introduce its browser ballot which popped up for everyone who had Internet Explorer picked as their default browser. So I had a look at the top five and some of the smaller picks in the ballot.

6. Apple Safari – I tested Apple’s browser at work yesterday and found it very slow, sure browsing speed was fast but the software itself kept stalling and smacked of software built mainly for another operating system.

5. Flock – Flock is the best of the smaller browsers. It allows you to keep an eye on your social networks with a style largely based on Firefox even borrowing the rendering engine

The image software I pick and why the others don’t fit the bill

Posted on April 16, 2010 by jonners991 Comment

So a month ago I decided to test out every image editor I had ever heard of and then Craig gave me a couple more that I hadn’t. The aim was simple, I knew photoshop was brilliant but I wanted to see if I could get the features I needed without the £600 price tag. My intention was to run a series of tests across all the software devices and then report back. Unfortunately I ran out of time so my analysis is not as in depth as I would have liked but I can rank the software by my preference with my reasons.

F1 Driver Rankings

Posted on April 11, 2010 by jonners99No Comments

I figure it would make sense to a do an annual F1 driver rankings that my friends can comment on or reply with their own lists. This would also make it possible to have some idea of how drivers are doing from season to season.

2010 rankings (after three races):
1. Sebastien Vettel
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Fernando Alonso
4. Robert Kubica
5. Felipe Massa
6. Nico Rosberg
7. Jenson Button
8. Adrian Sutil
9. Rubens Barrichello
10. Mark Webber
11. Michael Schumacher
12. Heikki Kovaleinen
13. Nico Hulkenberg
14. Jaime Alguersuari
15. Timo Glock
16. Jarno Trulli
17. Vinatonio Liuzzi
18. Sebastien Buemi
19. Vitaly Petrov
20. Pedro De La Rosa
21. Kamui Kobayashi
22. Bruno Senna
23. Lucas Di Grassi
24. Karun Chandhok

BTCC returns this weekend

Posted on April 2, 2010 by jonners992 Comments

I have followed the BTCC for a while. I am not sure I recall a time though when the grid was this healthy. Come the end of the 2009 season things were looking bleak for the series as the last of the manufacturer teams pulled out when Vauxhall had their funding removed. This weekend though will see 23 cars take to the grid in Thruxton as the thirty round (over ten events) season gets under way.

Ebay – again

Posted on March 8, 2010 by jonners992 Comments

So this morning I got around to picking up Adobe CS2 from the post office. On the way home I opened it up, I found that the disc was two tones of white and the image on the disc was slightly compressed. Expectations were therefore not that high when I got home and chatted with Adobe via their website. I gave them the product key and they informed me that the key was not valid. Yey for more non-official products on ebay.

Using ebay is no longer an enjoyable experience

Posted on March 5, 2010 by jonners991 Comment

Back in November Craig gave me a phone to sell on ebay, a week after that I tried placing it on the site only to find that the adding process would not complete even though all required and some non-required fields were filled in correctly. I put this down to a small bug that would be fixed and left it – granted Craig would have preferred I didn’t leave it as long – until two weeks ago. This time the item added fine and I was happy enough with the ebay fees of £5 or so for listing the item on the site as we expected it to go for a lot more money. I’ll just say I am sure neither ebay nor paypal used to take such a large share of the monies generated.