As luck would have it my media center control has died, so I went looking for a new one and found this little gem, it's a normal media centre control plus a keyboard and mouse (of a fashion), and it fits in the palm of your hand.

I'm gona get one, will let you know how it goes.

Handheld Mini 2.4GHZ RF Wireless Windows Media Center MCE Keyboard/Remote Control

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I've just been down to my local shops for a few bit's , on the way home a '08 plated Ford Mondeo taxi, driven by an idiot, decided to try and reorganise the rear of my car. Lucky for me, not so lucky for him, I drive a two and a half ton 4x4 fitted with a massive tow bar. The resulting carnage, fortunately no-one was hurt, should ensure this idiot is off the road for awhile.

This got me thinking about things I would like to see in 2011.

For example, how about a braking system fitted to your car that applies the brakes of the car behind, or, frozen veg bags you can open without using a sharp instrument, or, plastic milk containers where the little tag doesn't break off.

Any other ideas?.

Anyone find it slow ? I was trying to watch Dr Who last evening and it kept stopping to load. Speed of line is not an issue, I figured half the country might be watching stuff though...

Telly has been a bot poor as usual this year in my humble opinion.

So it's Christmas Eve, I like to think it all starts today.

Wishing all members and guests a Happy Christmas and hopefully a relaxing time.

May peace be upon the world for as long as possible.

Yup, I woke up to a dead hard drive, my external USB drive has failed, I blame myself really, the drive is at least 5 years old and I always tell people, customers, when they reach 5 years replace them before they die, I didn't and have lost all my music, videos and pictures.

Not too happy about that.

I was watching a program on TV about Richard Wilson and One foot in the grave, as a sitcom it has so many classic moments in and I like a good laugh.

Anyway it gave me the idea to start a new topic of classic comedy moments, starting with this gem.

Been looking for a planetarium for the PC, had a go with Sky Globe a few years back, found this free one "Stellarium", runs in OpenGL and its graphics are pretty good, might be worth downloading if you like the occasional look at the stars.

I see it has plugins too and one of them can send commands to a telescope to find things in the sky, that's how I read it, so it could be used by serious astronomers too, saying that they probably know about it already.