Perfect... ilo CA3000V

Walmart in the good ol' U.S of A, are selling this wonderous machine that needs to be in my car.

The Price - A measly $176.37 (£102.00)

Check the Specs.

• SD Card slot for playback of digital image and music files.
• Plays MP3-CDs
• 2" TFT-LCD Display
• XM-Ready AM/FM Tuner
• SD Card slot reads JPG images and MP3 files
• 160W Total Power
• Detachable Face Plate provides security

Trouble is, I have already tried to buy it from Walmart as I am pretty sure my Local ASDA won't be selling them, but the small disclaimer on Walmarts' site that says "We do not ship to Canada or other destinations outside the United States"

GUTTED...

So it's day 5 (or something) of the low cholesterol diet and SWMBO made me a fry up. Not just any fry up mind, but SWMBO approved, no oil, 1 egg etc. Very tasty, even beats my jacket potato and cottage cheese 2 days ago.


At least I have the support from my colleagues at work whoch means a lot, they Monday being the first full week of healthy eating.... and they all went to McDonalds, I managed to skip food as for some strange reason I was working.

at least my blood pressure has now gone down to 120/70 (considerable decrease since my last scare/test)

Rest assures I'll be all fit and healthy before you can say Mushroom Bhuna.
(must ... be ...... strong.... must..... resist

Sunday Surfing

Aint Sundays great, spend mornings having a veggie bacon and egg sancwich to get over the "Saturday Night Jack Attack, mummy dong Sunday dinner, watching the "BIG GAME", having a fry up for tea and surfing the Interweb. I clearly can't have the start/end of day cholesterol giver, but I'm not giving up ANYTHING ELSE...

Found some good sites today, and some of which are moving me away from Micro$oft.

Torrent Plugin for Mozilla Firefox (Mozilla Firefox available Here)
Moztorrent - Similar to above
Open Office is a great (and free) alternative to MS Office
Google Web Accelerator - Not sure about the privacy issues on this one though
Google SMS - Useful search tool for mobile phones, and you only pay normal rates to send the SMS.

Bye Bye Fry-Ups

Had a health check at work today, Denial really is the best form of cure... Have been told I have High Cholesterol Level (6.19) and High Blood Pressure (160/105). WHO ME !!!!!?

Even h Jim at 85 years of age* is healthier than me it appears, I demand a re-match, testing me at 8.45am isn't fair. My drive to work would have caused increased stress levels.

I have been "advised" to cut down on the types of food I eat and start excercising. Worse still SWMBO says I can't have fry-ups and no more crap.

* Jim is 50 really

Being a Veggie also means these levels are worrying as I can't blame it on the Meat.
Still... I keep meaning to go to the gym, Now I have the motivation.

Now then. Anyone have some Tasty Recipes... Tao, You're a part-time veggie, Suggest something Nice?

Who You Calling Ipoddy




Been a while since my last post (Sorry Ian - I know you've been waiting)

I think I have now found the pefect PDA/Phone thing- The Qtek 9100/iMate K-Jam/02 XDA Mini S, great as a phone, as a keyboard, and not huge either, only downside is no 3G but then I have no-one to video call and there's hardly any coverage so not much to miss out on really.

So much Trouble...
...Anyone out there that recorded the part 2 of "Walk Away and I Stumble" last week, please please let me have a copy, (I don't have a video so will need to be a Deev), trouble with SWMBO as I accidently deleted it. The old chestnut of "at least I recorded the first episode" didn't go down too well either.

Got my hands on a copy of MSN Messenger 8, Needs a patch applying to make it work and it'd not that different to the last version I was using (7.5), but ipoddy as I am, Had to get the latest version. Quite a few features apparently, I'm just waiting for them to combine MSN and Yahoo Messenger so I can get my yahoo emails from the Messenger box. The only other thing I use is the voice calls function but will one day invest in a Skype phone, which will need other people using it too, (I talk to myself enough as it is).

MSN 8.0 Feature list
• Change of Messenger Skins
• Real-time Emotions
• Messenger Built Internal Windows Media Player 10
• Pause/Resumed File Transfers (File Blocked Extension Applied)
• Detailed File Transfer (Download/Upload Speed)
• Animated Display Pictures (.gif .jpg .png (File Support under Consideration))
• Mood Status
• Faster Contact List Loading and scrolling
• Public Profile and MSN Spaces Combined
• More MSN Space features• New Hotmail and MSN Messenger Integration
• Downloadable MSN Messenger on Mobile
• News Updates according to Location
• Top 10 MSN Music Radio
• New Stylish Notifier Pop-up
• Downloadable Skins for MSN (Contact Window & Conversation Window)
• Complete Integration with Windows XP® & Windows Vista® Codename: Longhorn®
• Offline Voice/Message Machine
• Animated Buddy Icon Helper
• Display Picture Ratings

Gadget of the day #1

Fuji Finepix S9500 at just over 400 quid, this might just be my venture into decent photography instead of taking drunken night out photos.





Gadget of the day #2
although lacking space in my TV/Video cabinet, I am very tempted by this, although I have my Sky+ , Divx player, home cinema system, DVD recorder and PS2, this seems a must buy.... the slot for a PC hard drive may just mean something gets relocated to the bedroom (where all the older kit goes).