http://www.br-monster.com Thoughts and musings of a computer literate beer drinker... Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:39:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know the advertising world has used celebrity associations to boost their products appeal in the past, but do we really need celebrities to launch their own brands? Kate Moss has now launched her own perfume, why? I thought she worked for Revlon and as such was there to flog their ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=54 Looks like we'll all have to pay 15% more for our household insurance following the recent creation of three new lake districts..."Worst floods ever..." the environment agency said - but apparently they meant "for 60 years" because all this has happened before, they chose to ignore that fact and plead ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=53 The DVLA 'spoilsport' department has struck again eliminating the plates that they would not like to see on the road...The government recently issued a statement saying 300,000 new homes were needed and they were going to force councils to release land with planning permission to fill this need... curious, the ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=52 Had an odd experience this morning - Just as I woke up I realised I had been having a dream about seeing Stanley Baxter walking through my local village and the local ASBO crowd seeing him and chanting 'one Stanley Baxter, there's only one Stanley Baxter...' and thinking it must ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=47 When I was a kid summer meant weeks off school and sunshine in June & July, nowadays it means nothing of the sort.We've had that much rain this year I'm thinking of building an Ark!It has also been repoerted that water rates are going to rise to pay for improved ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=46 I've finally got round to replacing my old Olympus digital compact camera... I went for the Pentax Optio W30 Waterproof... probably a good idea the way the weather has been this year!It looks great (I got a blue one), though it doesn't have a viewfinder (call me old fashioned but ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=51 I think I am very near to buying one of these despite saying I would wait for its development to settle down and for more true PS3 titles to appear...My brother tells me that it easily runs YDL (Yellow Dog Linux - which I have used on my G3 powerbook ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=50 Well, its over a year since I finally made the move to flat panel TV and I'll never go back. I love my Panasonic, even though I didn't expect Plasma to fit the bill - I was fully convinced that LCD would be better (better life, more features, runs cooler...) ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=49 My ex boss got a new PC and wanted me to configure it for him - my first experience of Vista - to be fair to Micro$oft marketing I did go 'WOW!' but it wasn't what they expected it was 'WOW - this is far worse than I thought it ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=48 After my 'difficulties' with HP printing I asked around and settled on buying a Canon printer (never had one before, but my recent experiences of Epson & HP eliminated them)I got an MP600R - with built in wireless connection - it is everything I normally avoid, an AIO (All in ... http://www.br-monster.com/?p=45