HP Laptop

I'm thinking about the HP NX8220 - 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, Centrino 2.13Ghz, etc, etc....

What do you rec?

Sony - No.....

Just spoke to a friend who's also in IT (deals with more hardware than me) - The conversation went a bit like this:

Me: I dial *** *** *** ***
Him: Hello
Me: Hi Tomy, how are you doing?
Him: Fine thanks Ed, and yourself?
Me: I'm good thanks. I was wondering your opinion, I was looking to get a new laptop, my old one died a natural death - I was thinking about a Sony S5...... [I GET INTERUPTED]
Him: Ooooowww --- no,no,no,no - I wouldn't touch a Sony!! They service is s**t, the laptops are s**t, they ain't good - They're just s**t [I'VE KNOWN THIS GUY 20 YEARS, AND HE'S NEVER SWORN SO MUCH IN HIS LIFE!!]. Don't buy one - I recomend HP - Tosh aren't too good at the mo, and Samsung, the new X50 has got terrible reviews. Get an HP, I've supplied alot of them and had no problems.
Me: Right - Thats that then - I'll look into the HP's.
.............................[AND THE CONVERSATION CONTINUED]....
So - There we go, I'm not going for the Sony, I'm looking at the HP NX8220, any comments from my good blog readers?

Ciao.

Sony or HP Compaq?

My previous laptop, an Acer Aspire 2003WLMI broke a while back - So, I'm looking into getting a Sony S5M or a HP Compaq laptop - Does anyone haev any experience with these two computers - let me know.

Rgds.

Stanley Tookie-Williams

Its a shame that he's going to be executed, but for what we know, he is a murderer - or is he?

It seems that there is no real evidence to prove that he was the murderer - Google it, I've gotta get back to work.

Google Sitemaps (Update)

Yeh, an update on that situation - I've given up - The guy at SES said 'Try Google Sitemaps, and if it doesn't work, pull the plug...' - So, yeh, thats what I've done.

Stupid system.

Google Sitemaps

Are you having a laugh!?!

Everytime it re-indexes my site, it says another file isn't found - But, if you copy & paste the URL, it works perfectly.

Arghh..

Hemel Oil Depot Explosions Update

This morning I heard that the explosion was heard as far away as 100 miles from the Industrial Estate in Hemel Hempstead (Berkshire). On the news, locals said that their windows are doors were blown off their hinges.

The fire service decided not to use foam, as they feared poluting the local water system.

Its possible that the fire could burn all week. Apparantly, its the largest fire in the UK in 50 years.

Hemel Oil Explosions - Panic buying fuel!!

Firstly, I've just driven past four local fuel stations, and all of them have no fuel - Coincidently, I've run-out of fuel, I'm not panic buying. Secondly, a friend in High Wycombe (in Herts, near Hemel Hempstead) have said that there is no fuel locally. That oil explosion isn't going to cause fuel shortages in the UK (quite a quantity of that fuel of avaiation fuel, from what I've heard) - despite the fact that their is a shortage at the moment (due to panic buying). The oil explosion was a fair distance from London, although, the explosion "bang" could be heard in southern areas of London.

Anyways - I'll be back tommorow morning.

Richard Pryor - Died at the age of 65

I first saw Richard Pryor in 'See No Evil, Hear No Evil' - He was acting the blind character - and what a brilliant actor he was!

Speaking in 1995, Richard Pryor said "I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... in other words, I had a life."

Unfortunately he has suffered from MS for a long time - He died of heart failure. Lenny Henry quotes him as being a 'brilliant comedian'.

Oil Depot Explosion in UK

Yep - At about 6AM this morning (Sunday 11th December), a massive explosion was heard from miles around Hertfordshire (Hemel Hempstead) - An Oil Depot in a industrial estate had a large explosion which blow-out windows for many miles around.

Thankfully, nobody was killed.

The BBC have a news article about this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm

Fancy a laptop for 280,000 Euro's?

Well - A company in the Netherlands has built laptops that double up as hand-bags (Ohh yeh - you can't put anything in it.)

See their website, http://www.tulip-ego.nl - They've called it the Lifestyle Notebook E-Go (EGO, Are they having a laugh?) - Yep, walk around with one of those, and you probably do have an ego!!

It seems that you can change the outside covers to suit your fancy - Pink, Red, Brown, Flowery patterns, etc.... The spec isn't too bad, with AMD 64 Turion processor (well, thats the bad part, the rest is okay), 1MB L2 Cache, 1024MB of RAM (PC3200), a 100GB SATA hard disk, bluetooth, wlan, and other bits.

I'll pass myself.

GEO-Targeting and why it iritates me...

Geo-Targeting is when a website determines which country you are in by your IP address - For example, if you goto www.google.com in the UK, it automatically, re-directs you to www.google.co.uk - This irritates me. EOF

Todays SEO Tips:

1. See www.webmasterradio.fm
2. Use ALT tags (Charles Martin from Google referenced using ALT tags serveral times, DON'T SPAM THEM THOUGH)
3. For MSN - Put the important links at the top of the page - Make Anchor Text relevant.

Thinking about the airport - even though we were delayed there was a seriously good looking foreign bird (perhaps French?) - Lets just say, "...she had a rack fit for a king...". ;-)

Now I'm back in the UK, after being in the extremly cold Chicago for 5 days.

SES '05 was really good, I would definately recomend it*.

Some of the Highlights:

• Mike Grehan - Fantastic speaker - Even better comic (See www.mikegrehan.com)!!!
• Heather Lloyd-Martin (As I'm British, her accent is cool, is it southern? And she puts tons of efforts and energy into it)
• Danni Sullivan - Greate sense of humor - Great talker.
• Seeing MSN, Yahoo, Google and AskJeeves talking together - They are a good set of blokes!

Getting back to the UK was harder than expected - When I left the Hilton (at the end of SES '05), I got the taxi to take me back to my hotel (a couple of miles away), and then I got my bag, and went to the Airport. It was snowing lightly on the way to the airport, but the snow got heavier and heavier - Next thing we know is that the crew are running late as they are stuck in traffic.

So, to cut a long-story short, the plane was delayed 3.5hrs (including the 40minute de-icing process).

*Providing what I learnt actually works!

So - Last week, I decided I would attend the SES 2005 conference in Chicago - I read that SES has been very good in the past, and is well worth attending - So, with barely any notice, I manage to get a flight from Heathrow to Chicago on Sunday afternoon. Considering that Chicago is 6 hours behind the UK, I would arrive in Chicago early evening.

To cut a long story short, I have arrived in Chicago, and have just finished the second day - All was good and I'm glad I came.

Welcome to my Blog!! You might ask whats the purpose of this blog?? Well - I live and work in London, and I always have. I love London when all is well, but my mind quickly changes when I see some drunk twat graffitiing places, and the police do sod all!! I'm interesting in anything that interests me - Mainly IT related Tech stuff and cars (performance vehicles and trucks!!). So - Enjoy my posts!!