The Spanish Grand Prix is rarely interesting and usually tends to be, as someone on Neowin.net put it, 66 parade laps. However this year it was totally different.

Qualifying was extremely close, with there only being about 0.2 seconds between pole and fifth, and Alonso qualifying in a surprising 2nd. This was already going to make for an interesting race, as odds were that the Renault was extremely light and running a different strategy to most.

Then during the race there were a couple of overtaking moves and quite a few incidents, the biggest of which being Kovalainen’s crash at the Campsa corner. The safety car was out for several minutes as the marshals and FIA medics worked on getting him out the car and checking him out. Once again the strength of a modern Formula 1 car came through, with Heikki coming out in one piece. Read the rest of this entry »

I got the Samsung 940BW Plus 19″ Widescreen about a month ago, after finally getting enough money to replace my old, dull and blurry 17″ Samtron 76E CRT monitor. It really was very blurry - I couldn’t tell an i from an l or a 1.

I chose Samsung because Samtron monitors were made by Samsung and before it went dull and blurry, the Samtron was an excellent monitor. I have also had many other Samsung products, all of which are of a high quality. Read the rest of this entry »

I spent yesterday signing up to a few sponsored review sites, amongst them was PayPerPost. I came across it after reading a post on DoshDosh about making money from blog reviews and it is probably the best I’ve come across so far.

The site is nicely designed, is clear and informative. It was really quite easy to find out about how it worked and what was required. One of the things that attracted me in particular was that they expect disclosure of sponsored reviews (as you can see from the image at the bottom). Read the rest of this entry »

I’m quite looking forward to the release of Euro Truck Simulator in the middle of this year, a game from the same people responsible for the 18 Wheels of Steel series.

I got 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul a few months back and have thoroughly enjoyed it since. I am sure that Euro Truck Simulator will be just as good and the many screenshots available on the official site certainly do look impressive. Read the rest of this entry »

I use the NoScript extension in Firefox for three main reasons. Firstly it adds another layer of security, allowing me to decide who can and can’t serve me Javascript. For this reason alone I would recommend it to anyone.

Secondly it works as a partial ad-blocker. I don’t mind adverts - websites cost money to run and money typically comes from adverts, however I object to my computer being filled with junk because of it.

The third and final reason I use it is so that I can see how my Javascript based sites function when Javascript is turned off. However this has led me to seeing how other sites function with it turned off and I must say that I am appalled at the number that fail to take the unavailability of Javascript into consideration. Read the rest of this entry »