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For that price, I think I’d expect an engine with it

simon — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:15:36 +0000

This week on Top Gear they had an item about a new car recently launched, the Nissan Pixo – at £6,995 being currently the cheapest brand new production car on the UK market.

The item mainly talked about how rubbish as a car it is, going on to become an item about what kind of car you could get on the second hand market for that kind of cash.

Coincidently, this lunchtime I called into the bike shop to get some new tyres for my bike, the current ones needing replacing partly because off-road tyres are a bit silly for somebody who never goes off-road, but mostly because they’re getting a bit ripped to shreds on the sides. Seeing the cheapest tyres that were any good came to £20 I did that sharp intake of breath thing, deciding that i didn’t feel like ponying up £40 at once instead getting just one tyre, to replace the other one next month.

Standing by the till waiting to be served, I saw this bike in the rack for sale:

I did manage to stop myself from saying out loud that for that price, I’d expect it to come with an engine attached.

Cubetris

simon — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:05:05 +0000

It appears The Cube, by the canal, has started moving!

A day without a progress bar is like an omelette without cheese

simon — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:10:33 +0000

My typical working day consists of a lot of this:

Give the gift of choice

simon — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:16:46 +0000

I was recently walking through the Pallasades shopping centre when i noticed this poster, advertising the Pallasades Gift Card:

The perfect present every time, indeed; whose face couldn’t possibly fail to light up at receiving such a kind & thoughtful gift, when the gift of choice includes wares from these fine emporiums:

One is – quite literally – spoilt for choice.

Help – email is broken for me!

simon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:17:16 +0000

“It just seems that Email as a medium is broken. For me to actually read and respond to every email that I receive would actually mean that I would be spending all of my time on email and none of my time on doing the things that the emails are about. That’s silly. But if I don’t respond to the emails then I just end up with urgent things going awry. It’s catch 22″.

Go read the rest of Stef’s article, and see if you think he’s not the only one in that situation…