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Queen and Top Gear in weird merged moment

On the run up to a new series of Top Gear the more hardcore fans loitering on the Final Gear forums start to get a little bit strange, suffering from withdrawal and desperation.

OK we’re not…

SeeSaw gets premium comedy shows

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of SeeSaw. All opinions are 100% mine. I would not take a sponsorship opportunity unless I genuinely believe in the product and have written…

Is embarrassing parents TG video viral?

Not long ago in my first Top Gear series 14 preview post I included a video of some very embarrassing parents shouting about Top Gear as they passed the presenter in their car on the…

No more music on my iPod thanks to Spotify

I’ve had ‘the middle’ iPod in one form or another since the first iPod Mini was released in 2004.

And ever since, from the very beginning of my iPod ownership life, music and speech have…

Diet Diary: Starting all over again

I’ve got a bet with my wife – she doesn’t think I’ll be able to lose two stone by our anniversary at the end of August and I’m adamant I can.

When I was at school I was always a bit chubby, then…

Top Gear set for Sunday 27 June return

It’s that time of year again, the time when everyone at work gets completely bored with me and when I spend every Sunday evening talking about TV on a message board.

It’s been officially…

New look Glasto site makes use of 6music names

Every year the BBC relaunches its website for one of the major festivals it covers or, in the case of the Big Weekend – hosts.

The latest site to get this treatment is the Glastonbury…

Google gets all arty with its homepage

Google have announced the launch of a new feature for its homepage – a Bing like feature that allows users to customise the background.

And to mark the launch they decided, on Thursday 10…

In need of Android book library for HTC Tattoo

My most recent gadget acquisition is a HTC Tattoo, the low end small screen Android based handset from the Taiwanese-based manufacturer.

This is a great little phone, it’s easy to hold, fits in my…

Losing the ability to just sit back and be immersed?

There may be a couple of spoilers for Doctor Who: Eleventh Hour starring Matt Smith in this blog post – if you haven’t seen it and don’t want to be spoiled don’t read on.

Like many of the…

Saving old BBC pages for the future

The BBC is a big site, there are pages within pages within pages and even deeper than that, there are large sections with multiple sub-sections that have their own top level related sections.

But equally there are certain shows with their own top level site (

Accidentally good carbon footprint shot out the oval window

I’m going to be honest with you here, I don’t really care that much about my carbon footprint, I don’t go out of my way to keep it low or do anything special to ’save the earth’.

However, purely…

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

Queen and Top Gear in weird merged moment

On the run up to a new series of Top Gear the more hardcore fans loitering on the Final Gear forums start to get a little bit strange, suffering from withdrawal and desperation.

OK we’re not…

SeeSaw gets premium comedy shows

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of SeeSaw. All opinions are 100% mine. I would not take a sponsorship opportunity unless I genuinely believe in the product and have written…

Is embarrassing parents TG video viral?

Not long ago in my first Top Gear series 14 preview post I included a video of some very embarrassing parents shouting about Top Gear as they passed the presenter in their car on the…

No more music on my iPod thanks to Spotify

I’ve had ‘the middle’ iPod in one form or another since the first iPod Mini was released in 2004.

And ever since, from the very beginning of my iPod ownership life, music and speech have…

Diet Diary: Starting all over again

I’ve got a bet with my wife – she doesn’t think I’ll be able to lose two stone by our anniversary at the end of August and I’m adamant I can.

When I was at school I was always a bit chubby, then…

Top Gear set for Sunday 27 June return

It’s that time of year again, the time when everyone at work gets completely bored with me and when I spend every Sunday evening talking about TV on a message board.

It’s been officially…

New look Glasto site makes use of 6music names

Every year the BBC relaunches its website for one of the major festivals it covers or, in the case of the Big Weekend – hosts.

The latest site to get this treatment is the Glastonbury…

Google gets all arty with its homepage

Google have announced the launch of a new feature for its homepage – a Bing like feature that allows users to customise the background.

And to mark the launch they decided, on Thursday 10…

In need of Android book library for HTC Tattoo

My most recent gadget acquisition is a HTC Tattoo, the low end small screen Android based handset from the Taiwanese-based manufacturer.

This is a great little phone, it’s easy to hold, fits in my…

Losing the ability to just sit back and be immersed?

There may be a couple of spoilers for Doctor Who: Eleventh Hour starring Matt Smith in this blog post – if you haven’t seen it and don’t want to be spoiled don’t read on.

Like many of the…

Saving old BBC pages for the future

The BBC is a big site, there are pages within pages within pages and even deeper than that, there are large sections with multiple sub-sections that have their own top level related sections.

But equally there are certain shows with their own top level site (

Accidentally good carbon footprint shot out the oval window

I’m going to be honest with you here, I don’t really care that much about my carbon footprint, I don’t go out of my way to keep it low or do anything special to ’save the earth’.

However, purely…

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

Kailen and birds

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How to be a Geek is the virtual holding cell for the content of new media journalist Ryan Morrison's brain and web habbits.



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