Yesterday I bought a new TV. Not a big screen TV, but a huge screen TV. The specific make and model is Sony KDL-52W4500. It has excellent black levels and colours, plenty of peripheral inputs, and, of course, an enormous screen. If a movie is showing and the camera pans across some nature shots, I can’t even walk beside the TV without getting dizzy.This is definitely a big upgrade (pun intended) from my previous TV, which will see its final days in my parents downstairs living room.

This one is going its rounds in the blogosphere these days, so I thought I’d continue the trend: How long could you survive in the vacuum of space? In the first 30 seconds any fluid on the surface of your body would begin to boil due to lack of ambient pressure, this includes the saliva on your tongue and the moisture in your eyes. Your eardrums would most likely burst due to the pressure in your body trying to equalize with the vacuum outside. Unlike what some science fiction films have suggested, your body would not explode. After the first 15 seconds you would lose consciousness. If you held your breath you could potentially stay alive longer but you risk pulmonary trauma. If you didn’t […] Read more

My trusty old laptop is getting noticeably older. It’s not as fast as I remember it being when it was new (newer and faster computers both at home and at the office has that effect), the coverings are starting to come up, and the power supply has started failing. I was also in the need for an airline adapter so that I could use it on the plane from London to Los Angeles (only 6.5 weeks left) and those are ridiculously expensive for this old model. So I figured I needed a new laptop, and what did I end up with? An Apple MacBook! I’ve always been a PC and Microsoft guy, and yet I ended up buying a MacBook. Why?First of all I thought […] Read more