I held off seeing Avatar until almost a month after it's release for a few reasons. Main one was I've become much more hype averse over the past 5 years or so, seemingly my brain has caught up to the notion that it's usually in the media's interest to go on and on and on about something even (or sometimes especially) when it's below par. Secondly, after my original thoughts when the trailer came out I was waiting to see if it did actually fall on it's arse.

It didn't. Guess that told me, eh? [More]

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Bletchley is in need of your support. they have only just secured Lottery funding but many parts of the museum do not have any funding at all and rely on donations and visitors and their on-site shop to keep things running. Its all done from the love of volunteers at the moment, but that only goes so far. I'd urge everyone with even a passing interest in computers, or history, to take a day out and go visit. An adult ticket is £10, and it gives you unlimited access for A WHOLE YEAR!! For a tenner!!! You will not be disappointed. [More]

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There's been a flurry of interest in Google Wave this week, mainly people desperately trying to get hold of invites to the initial beta programme. Google released 100,000 invites, and all of these people could invite 5 friends to the next test. This, quite predictably, led to madness on eBay within minutes - but also has led to spammers jumping on the bandwagon, so be aware if you get an invite by mail from someone who probably doesn't have an invite themselves... [More]

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I've been looking to change my DAB radio for a while now, so when I spotted the new Logitech Squeezebox radio yesterday it immediately went to the top of my "want" list. [More]

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