John Meredith's Blog

So you can no longer make Cornish Pasties outside of Cornwall. Good. I’m not a fan… Now onto being parochial about Welsh things. 1. Cannot make daffodils outside of Wales. 2. Welsh cakes are only to be made in Wales to a traditional recipe….no JAM! 3. Rugby failure at a professional level is exclusively a [...]

An iPad for just £99? Well….no. Not really.I wonder how many people desperate for tablet computers enter into mobile contracts unwittingly before realising that they are not getting much bang for their buck? And by that I mean just using their mobile tariff fully. I wonder what the 3G usage for tablet’s is nowadays? I [...]

I have been a quite big fan of O2 since I first moved mobile phone contracts to them a couple of years ago. But then I started getting upset with my Nokia E71 for being rubbish compared with the Androids and IPhones of this world and decided a move away was on the cards. This [...]

The Register has an article depicting the strife that the BBC/Channel 4/ITV funded IPTV scheme YouView seems to be in. I think YouView is a great idea and I have gone through every possible avenue trying to get BBC iPlayer on my TV. Without buying a new one, there doesn’t seem to be an easy [...]

T-mobile released the Google Android 2.2 a little over a month ago after much #tmobilefail shenanigans. But since then I’ve been mulling over whether it has made a big difference. I think it has generally but the odd habits you pick up from running 2.1 die hard. For example the reliance on using automatic task [...]

Over 2 years after ‘Children of Earth’ aired in the UK, BBC1 viewers will see the new series at 9pm on July 1st, 2011. With only two original cast still alive, there is some new blood in the form of Bill Pullman?! Not sure what to make of that… If the new series is anything [...]

Last week I tried jumping the gun and forcing a Froyo upgrade on my Samsung Galaxy S. It didn’t work but in the process I wiped my phone and started from scratch and what a difference that makes. Over the last couple of months I’ve had the phone I (as many do, no doubt) gradually [...]

Who the hell does James Cameron think he is to abuse the fans in releasing Avatar again? Taking the somewhat over used concept of a Directors Cut is common place for home video, but to do this in the cinema while the original is still playing is plain wrong. But I’m glad to see that [...]

I went and did it. I fought the evil inside me. I spurned the iPhone like a paid up Lib Dem from the Coalition Government. I went…Android! And why not? They’ll only win in the end…so I got into bed with Google. As my previous post indicated, I was wrestling with whether the Samsung Galaxy [...]

Well…sorta. I have been huge Matthew Good fan for many years now, and it amazes me with such drivel in the UK music scene, how Canada’s most famous unknown is not well…um…known in the UK. And on this one issue, I have to say I am grateful to iTunes for providing Matthew Good exposure outside [...]