How cool is this? A Wi-Fi Detector T shirt! Be the envy of all your friends for a just a mere $29.99 at ThinkGeek you can show people where the Wi-Fi is at!

I am by no means a money saving expert, in fact I can sometimes be a little naughty splashing money onto a credit card every now and again to purchase a really "must have" gadget. However most of the time I like to make credit cards work for me as per my last article Making money off your credit card using 0% cards.

One of the things that gets me when I talk to younger (and some of my older) friends is what they do with their savings. There seems to be a common theme that goes a long the lines of "Oh I don't earn enough money to worry about a proper savings account". These very same people will have a standard savings account you get from your high street bank which pays a very low rate of interest and on top of that the bank will also be paying the Inland Revenue tax on your behalf off the interest before you get it. While at the same time that so called "paltry" amount could be placed inside a MINI cash ISA and be earning 5% interest tax free!

When I explain the above there is still a reluctance as they seem to think an ISA is some kind of a special shares thing they need to sign up for. Its only when I explain that just about anyone can open an ISA account and that it can be treated as just a normal bank account except for the following rules.

• You can only deposit £3,000 in a cash ISA each year
• If you saved £1,000 and then withdrew it you would only be able to put £2,000 back into that ISA within the tax year.
• If you have £3,000 in your cash ISA by the end of the financial year you can place a further £3,000 when you get to the next tax year.

I don't think enough people make use of these convenient financial products.

For more financial tips take a look at Money Saving Expert

Just been reading an article on my wife Karen's blog about a cut in the price of the PS3.

Sony will be releasing a cut down version of the PS3 which is cheaper however not backwards compatible with the PS2 and PS1. The price is quite attractive at £299, however I am not prepared to buy a cut down version of the PS3 if I can't play my old PS2 and PS1 games. However if you are looking for a cheap Blu-ray DVD player the PS3 is definitely it.

On another note the full version of the PS3 will be coming down from £425 to £349 which is a much more palatable price. I am still facing the dilemma between and Xbox 360 and a PS3.  I love the Wii console but I also want a serious games console and I really love all the amazing features that come packed in the PS3.

• You only buy devices that are wireless
• You feel sorry for people who are still on dialup Internet access
• You can't remember the last time you wrote a letter by hand
• You only stay in contact with friends who have e-mail addresses
• You can't remember the last time you had real printed photos as everything's online.
• You think something's wrong with your friends when you don't see them online everyday.
• You know what a mac address is.
• You know what a WEP key is.
• You have a blog, hosted on your own server
• You treat yourself to a new gadget every couple of months from Ebuyer or "I want One Of Those"
• You've setup not one but two wireless networks in your house with 2 lots of firewalls.
• You write your blog posts in a pure HTML editor because you can't stand the GUI one.
• You have more than one PC and one of them is called "your server"
• You use the command prompt for everything
• You know more about your ADSL connection and how to fix it when it goes wrong than the person on the helpdesk of your ISP.
• Your friends and family rather call you when they have an IT problem at work than talk to their own internal IT guys.
• You prefer to build your own PC's
• You're reading this blog post late at night smiling when you should probably be in bed.
• Your mobile device can access e-mail and probably has Skype and WiFi
• You criticise actors in "cyber" movies who write syntactically incorrect code.   
• You plan your holidays by which hotels have wireless access

Was just watching one of the latest army adverts where they showed the army using remote controlled drones to monitor the battle field. What got me was I am pretty sure the controller they were using for the drones was a controller for an Xbox 360. Very very odd....

I'm constantly thinking of new and funny ways to handle nuisance telemarketing calls. This is one of the best I have ever heard.  

This is so cool!

"You were supposed to be the chosen one!"

For more squirrel pics (although not as funny) take a look here

This is Oli often referred to by our friends as the most adorable looking cat they have ever seen. Don't be fooled by those cute eyes, Oli's hobbies include rubbing up against you and shedding white fur on you when you are about to leave for work.

He is also the first one of our cats to bite me when I was trying to give him a pill. I know now that all I had to do was wrap it in ham, if I had known that back then I could have saved myself a tetanus injection!

The Foot and Mouth epidemic that seems to be popping up all over Surrey affected my travel into work for a while, they had to close a few roads which congested traffic and made waiting for the bus a 40minute task.

My thoughts at the moment are with all those farmers in the area who could quite likely see their lively hood disappear, and this was all caused by leak at a research lab into the disease. Surely the the company should be sued or made to reimburse all the farmers affected? A good fine would probably see this sort of negligence never happens again?

Was just watching a news feature about the government wanting to come up with a national motto for Great Britain to make us feel "closer" as a nation such as the American motto "In God we trust".

What I want to know is what's wrong with our existing one "Dieu Et Mon Droit" which translates to "God and my right". While its traditionally referred to the monarchs right to govern it could also be be seen as a statement of our own rights?