More thinking out loud than anything here... might a NAS box be useful here? If you're in no hurry to get the files transcoded, you could leave it sitting in a corner doing its thing at a glacial pace, but then once it's finished you've got a nice media server to stream stuff from, plus also a decen...

small Argos inside a large Homebase: http://up.metropol247.co.uk/thegeek/thumbs/IMG_20150302_145205.jpg http://up.metropol247.co.uk/thegeek/thumbs/IMG_20150302_145225.jpg http://up.metropol247.co.uk/thegeek/thumbs/IMG_20150302_145246.jpg I did have a quick go on one of the iPads, and the two random ...

I suppose the current system keeps the vinyl sticker manufacturers in business. I think I'm right in saying that the next franchise transfer is at the end of May, which will see a handful of Abellio Greater Anglia services passing to TfL: the Lea Valley Lines (Liverpool Street to Chingford and Chesh...

Also on the subject of TSB, they've finally updated their online banking app so its not powered by steam. The old version was basically a wrapper for the mobile website which meant typing in your password endlessly on the tiny keyboard. The new one is a proper native app with a rather nice little p...

Westfield Stratford's Phones4u is becoming an O2 store. There's currently a hoarding across the front directing would-be customers to their nearest store, which is two floors below.

However there appeared to be a nationwide fault with the self-service tills which led to them all being closed today in my local store, although Morrisons claimed on Twitter that some were open. One of the self-service tills in my local M Local was working today, which is a break from the norm. It ...

Alexia wrote:Are you Dave Gorman?

No, but until recently I lived not just up the road from him, so many of the locations mentioned in 'Modern Life is Goodish' were familiar to me. I may have shopped in the same pound (plus or minus) shops as him.

It looks like another Discount Brand at Tesco has bitten the dust:

This is where calling your store "Poundland" and "99p" falls down....cos you're kinda tied to that. I guess it kinda works both ways in that they sell products that would normally retail for >£1 for £1. Not necessarily - with a name like Poundland they could easily decide to be ...

I see the Post Office have launched a new brand for their financial services products. Is that the same font as the POST OFFICE text? I've only just this moment noticed that it's not Gill Sans, as it used to be. http://www.postoffice.co.uk/dam/content_migration_assets_1401_1/POM_Header_Desktop_Logo_...