Archive for the 'Entertainment' Category

People who know me won’t be surprised that I like the TV show Numb3rs.
I also love the Apple “PC vs Mac” adverts.
… so I was quite amused with this video of a promo for the show which takes off the PC vs Mac concept:

Bit of a drama earlier in the week - our digital set-top box got fried by its own power supply.
I have a Topfield TF5000PVRtMPB (5000 Masterpiece) digital set top box and PVR, and apparently this model has a known problem where the power supply sometimes puts out a much higher voltage than it is supposed [...]

Early start this morning - had to be across the plaza to catch our tour bus to the island of Chiloe at 8am.
We booked through a tour company since it was a long way and the buses were a bit infrequent - we weren’t sure we could see everything we wanted to if we did [...]

For Christmas, my wife bought me a copy of Jeremy Clarkson’s book The World According to Clarkson. Being a fan of the BBC show Top Gear (shown on SBS Monday night 7:30pm here in Australia), she thought I might like to read some of Jeremy’s books. This book is actually a collection of his articles [...]

Just got back from a matinee showing of The Boy from Oz, starring Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen, Chrissy Amphlett as Judy Garland, Colleen Hewett as Marion Woolnough, Angela Toohey as Liza Minnelli.
It was a fantastic show - Hugh really knows how to work an audience (not that he has to work very hard … [...]