http://geekit.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:53:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a self proclaimed geek, I love the moving world of technology. I love the way it allows us to do things more and more efficiently, to keep in contact with people across the world, even to buy things across the globe without leaving the computer terminal only to have ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2008/06/03/skype-bringing-people-together/ It’s rare that I get angry at a telly advert these days. But I saw one that made me want to write in. Probable the email will give you the best explernation: “I would like to complain, I really could not believe it when I saw your advert on ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2008/03/26/burn-the-honey-monster-p-sugar-puff-might-boosh-rip-off/ The ASA are shooting themselves in the foot – and giving me great reason to be optimistic about the future of TV advertising.  With their recent ruling that the 26 people (I’m not sure if anyone without a degree in nuclear physics could make a UK population percentage with numbers that small) ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2008/03/17/christians-hop-on-the-objectionable-ad-band-wagon/ The state of the British transport system is now well documented to reveal a system that is in disarray.  However, being New Year the first thing that hits the headlines are the above inflation price rises in the cost of tickets across the UK rail network.  As always, the prices ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2008/02/04/rail-replacement/ The BBC is reporting on the Government’s 10 year “vision” which would provide many kinds of support for parents. Whilst this should be welcomed by most parents, especially any who have children who will benefit from this, I wonder how far it will go before it runs out of steam ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2008/01/16/government-vision-for-parental-support-longterm-reality-or-campaign-noise/ Underage drinking, a growing problem and something that now worries many people around the country.  However, there is one thing to add to all of the uproar in the media and that is quite simply that underage drinking has always existed.  How else do people start drinking?  Similar to smoking, ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2007/11/13/underage-drinking/ It seems that this obsession with how other’s live has been going on quite some time, it’s not just connected to the age of Orlando Bloom and Paris Hilton.  Brits are notorious for rummaging through burial sites for artefacts to show the world in the name of “research” and “education”.  ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2007/11/06/p76/ On the 15th September 2005 Shishukunj opened it’s south London Kendra. Two years on and the group have just celebrated their two year anniversary and are still going strong. Shishukunj is a children’s charity who’s aim is the cultural development of children. What this means is they aim to teach ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2007/09/17/two-years-running-shishukunj-and-still-going-strong/ Kathy Griffin was unable to properly get out of a car in a parking lot yesterday. She literally forgot how to use her legs. I cannot imagine anything besides being drunk or stoned that can get you to fall out of the car and just sit there, with no reflex ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2007/05/03/kathy-griffin-getting-out-of-the-car/ Alec Baldwin, (49), the Hollywood star who described his 11-year-old daughter by “rude, thoughtless little pig” during the voice message he left in the answer machine, is now writing a book for divorcing fathers. The book title is "Life After Divorce," and it will be on bookshelves later this year. ... http://geekit.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/alec-baldwin-and-his-new-advice-book-for-fathers/