August 4th, 2007 at 3:31 am » Comments (0)

For anyone who enjoys playing Internet Poker, getting your head around all the providers out there can be a little over whelming sometimes. Internet-pocket.co.uk is a site that aims to ...more »

July 31st, 2007 at 11:36 pm » Comments (0)

Checking through my Google search engine referrals, it appears that I am getting quite a few hits for the phrase 'Presents For Nick'. I'm not entirely sure why, except last ...more »

July 31st, 2007 at 1:13 am » Comments (0)

When ever we go to a friend of Irina's parents, we always have a great meal, then the men go downstairs to the den, and drink some more, smoke and ...more »

July 20th, 2007 at 1:50 am » Comments (0)

For those times when you do not have anyone near you, in the real world, and a computer opponent just does not cut it, there is another option - Online ...more »

July 19th, 2007 at 3:27 am » Comments (0)

If you fall into both categories, then your dry spell may well be over, both in terms of availability of Mac Poker sites and schemes online, as well as picking ...more »

July 17th, 2007 at 7:10 pm » Comments (0)

No not his beard, nor his infamously awful jumpers, but when he hosted Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (or more specifically when Cheggers presented the Swaporama sections) all those years ago, it ...more »

July 17th, 2007 at 4:28 am » Comments (0)

One silly thing Irina and i never got around to doing back in Britain was going to Bingo. Although it may not seem like the sort of thing we would ...more »

July 16th, 2007 at 9:52 pm » Comments (0)

The Australian Football League finals will be held in Melbourne this year, which means that many Hotels in Melbourne will be fully booked soon. Rather than simply choosing one at ...more »

July 15th, 2007 at 1:46 am » Comments (0)

Well, that is it, we have now seen the last episode of Lost - Series 3. I think Irina is happier than with the ending and general direction taken by ...more »

July 13th, 2007 at 4:11 am » Comments (0)

(USA Relevant) If you play Fantasy Football (see my previous posts on that subject) you will probably find the NFL Sunday Ticket on DIRECT TV incredibly useful. The main idea behind ...more »

July 11th, 2007 at 9:26 pm » Comments (2)

Whilst Alex was here, and during the week long celebrations for Astana being the capital city, and President Nazarbayev's birthday, we all went to an afternoon of events over at ...more »

July 7th, 2007 at 2:29 am » Comments (0)

A friend recently explained to me why the world series was called that, when there is rarely any other nationality of team, other than American. I had previously been under ...more »

July 3rd, 2007 at 1:25 am » Comments (0)

In case anyone else has this game (the Infogrames version), and one day discovers the application fails to load, you may not need to remove and then reinstall it to ...more »

July 2nd, 2007 at 3:42 am » Comments (0)

If you own an Apple Macintosh computer, you may be used to people assuming that whilst you are spoilt for choice when it comes to creative software, the situation for ...more »

June 20th, 2007 at 10:10 pm » Comments (0)

Having mentioned Steve, it is now the turn of Jim - both people I used to work with over at EDS in Britain. Jim enjoyed playing backgammon a lot, and ...more »

June 15th, 2007 at 11:37 pm » Comments (0)

Given that the lottery is a selection of random numbers, there is little you can do on your own to increase your chance of winning, other than the obvious - ...more »

June 15th, 2007 at 7:57 pm » Comments (0)

Back in Britain, one of Marilyn's friends was an avid online gambler. I used to go over to occasionally trouble shoot his technical problems, and watch while he 'worked' online. ...more »

June 15th, 2007 at 3:46 am » Comments (4)

Basic reverse psychology, with the added bonus of some strippers involved... I have not downloaded the software yet, but if it is free, who can complain ;) more »

June 12th, 2007 at 8:06 pm » Comments (0)

My thanks to Oleg for spotting an interesting game. The idea is to use your voice to power a Scalextric-like car around a race track. You do of course need a microphone ...more »

June 12th, 2007 at 7:23 pm » Comments (0)

I came across WidgetBox.com, and decided to post a few of the games... If you don't have a flash filter in place, this page will take a while to load, apologies... Click ...more »