The old desktop wallpaper can get a bit boring after a while.

There are some neat tools that will allow you to rotate through random images for your wallpaper, but I’ve found something that I find even better – Deskmates.

These are little animated characters, ranging from sexy cartoon girls to a blue gorilla called TeeCee. There’s even a fat beer swilling cartoon bloke and  cute little Koala bear.

Each one has hundreds of different animation sequences to keep them fressh and fun for ages.

You can even click on them to make them do different things.

I came across this movie yesterday, I’m not sure who sent me an email about it as I deleted the email before I’d watched the movie, but I’ve glad I tookk the time to watch it.

It claims to shed some light on some quite painful and shocking “Truths” about the world we live in today.

I almost switched it off after just a few minutes, but for some reason I kept watching…

I do love my sci-fi stuff on tv, so even though I know sitting in front of the old goggle box is not a productive use of my time, I still tend to end up spending a couple of hours a day soaking up those airwaves.

Well, apparently I’m only just under the average daily viewing time for us Brits, but then we’re only eleventh on the scale if you believe this survey: -

I’m normally a big fan of ebay, I’ve picked up some real bargains there, as well as selling off some stuff I wasn’t using anymore, including my last car.

But I’ve recently had a couple of bum deals…

The first was two 8GB (allegedly) Data “thumb” drives ordered from Hong Kong that turned out to be duff as they wouldn’t hold more than a GB of data before losing or corrupting it. I managed to get a refund for those, so I’m not too peeved, but…

Well it was a reasonably sunny Sunday today, so we decided to get some “culture” and visit Blenheim Palace.

The rain managed to hold off for the day, so it was fairly enjoyable, but we almost turned away at the entrance when we discovered the entrance fee was £16 (~$32USD) each!

Having tea and scones after a couple of hours walking around was also a bit of a wallet emptying experience…

One of my favorite types of “Gadget” has always been a nice watch.

I probably picked up the habit from my Dad who had a wicked Omega watch when I was a kid, it’s also Dad’s birthday today as it happens, so happy birthday Dad!

I’ve had all sorts of weird and fun watches, including one of my favorites, a binary watch that told the time in binary numbers. Of course it took a while to get used to it and I’d get some pretty strange looks when someone asked for the time and I’d take 5 mins to work it out.

Recently though I’ve fallen victim to fashion watches….