Holiday Glasses

If you wear glasses I hope you know that you have a lot of range to choose from these days. The options for the glasses-wearer these days are amazing. So much so, you could get yourself some new glasses this holiday time.

Have a look at the Holiday Glass Frames From Zenni Optical

For Xmas, these would be my fave. They're very festive...



The website is zennioptical.com and it is The popular online eyeglasses shop. The prices are great because they have eliminated the overheads. For example, look at their $ 8 Complete Rx Eyeglasses. With prices like that, you'll have a lovely time this Holiday time.

Ants

Spotted this in the news:

"A new ant which was discovered less than 20 years ago could be on the way to wreak havoc in parks and gardens of Northern Europe including Britain."

Ants? It's hardly going to be the next summer blockbuster is it? We get invaded and the scariest thing they could send is an ant.

They are the Lasius neglectus ant and when they move into a new area they quickly exterminate its local rivals.

So, it's an ant that invades but by doing so gets rid of the other ants that you were having problems with. That's almost quite kind of it.

It resembles the common black garden ant but the number of workers crawling around is between 10 and 100 times greater.

So it will look like a kid has dropped an ice lolly on the floor even when they haven't.

Maybe I should be more scared, but I'm not, and here's why. Dr Sylvia Cremer said: "We found that invasive garden ants developed from species in the Black Sea region that have natural populations with small networks of interconnected nests with many queens that mate underground and don't fly."

As long as they don't fly they can come round here any day. It's the flying ones that freak me out.

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Unusual Gadgets

You know me, I like my tech. So I mention some gadgets that have caught my eye.

Well this one certainly caught my eye. Here's the apparatus...



Anyone know what they does? I'll tell you.

It's the MaleEdge penis enlarger from www.maleedge.com.

What goes where? What do you press, and then what happens?

It's non-invasive and available in a variety of colours and sizes.

And hopefully it comes with instructions.

Remoting

I was driving to work today, listening to LBC and I heard that GoToMyPC.com had won awards as a remote PC access system for years in a row.

I'm shocked. Am I totally wrong in saying that using a free VNC program and setting up an Hamachi network to run as a service (both of which are free and not that tricky to do) will give you all the remote control you need.

With the Hamachi network you can do some crafty work with the IP settings and get access to things on the work network without any VNCing.

And yet to use GoToMyPC you have to pay.

Come on, people in business. Roll up your sleeves and do a little IT work. It'll save you cash.

A Football Something

Loads of people are into football. It's a way of life for some people. Well, if it's your passion there's something you can do, Taikai.

It's a sports prediction game and as a player you compete against others players using your knowledge of football, and if you're good you can win money.

You create the profile for you on the system, and that means it's more than just about sports. You can leave messages for each other on the profile walls, so it's social too.

It's linked to Betfair so you know it's a professional site.

If you want to see more check the Taikai homepage by clicking the link.

Sat Nav

A newlywed couple ended up stuck half-way up a mountain when their sat-nav went wrong on their honeymoon.

And to make things worse they were trying to get to Slough.

Not really. Who'd want to go to Slough?

Oliver Kohl and Angela were heading to a luxury hotel in the remote village of Willingen, Germany, after their wedding in Hamm, near Dortmund. But they got lost as their sat-nav guided them along a bumpy, unpaved forest road toward a tall mountain.

That's what happens when you tick the 'avoid motorways' bit.

Oliver said: "At one point there was a gate I had to open, and then eventually the road became a muddy swamp and we got stuck fast."

You'd think you would've spotted the clues and turned back. If you're following your sat nav and you drive past a goat, turn round.

To be honest, sat navs can be odd. On the way back from a gig this weekend my sat nav put me on the northbound Al and told me to make a U-turn... on a dual carriageway. But the difference is, I didn't do it. Just because a computer tells you to do something doesn't mean you should have to.

Or when Windows tells you to insert your floppy... well, you'd get barred from the internet cafe for a start.

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