What Andy Likes

Just tonight in the throws of settling my four and five-year-old children to bed, I did what most responsible parents do. I put on a few dubstep songs. There's nothing quite like a Skrillex song to settle young kids I find. After defusing the disapproving looks and comments from my darling wife, I wanted to start calming the mood for real, so I changed the beat to a bit of Chemical Brothers. Soon enough it was way past bed time and I started to search for something a bit more soothing.    I'm not too sure why the next thing happened. You see, my brain sometimes likes to take me to places I haven't been to for a while, just to jog the memories, to reach deep deep down into the bucket and pull something out that reinvigorates my life and reminds me how awesome it was to be young.  On this particular occasion we (my brain and I) went back to a time, in 1998, when I had some trouble getting to sleep for quite some time during my late adolescents. Nothing drastic, but it went o

It's been approximately two months since I posted my video and wrote a quick post to indicate to you,that I'm going to follow the fortunes of this video. I had a feeling it was going to do OK. The Tab A had only just been released and hadn't received a lot of media coverage for some unknown reason. Here in Australia at least, it was however filling up the brick and mortar shelves and hence my review came probably at the right time for this budget, yet kind of awesome device. This video is by far my most successful one. The views are climbing steadily and I've even had a little bit of dialogue to go with it in the comments. Now the question is, how long wil the views continue to rise? I've done a couple of "support videos" with back links, so we'll see how it progresses. Views: 1962

It was a beautiful Sunday morning when I woke up for my first Brissie to Bay 100km ride. In fact it wasn't beautiful at all as at 4am it was still pitch black outside, it was hard to see and I couldn't tell what sort of a day it was going to be. It felt good anyway. I had been a good boy. I went to bed early. 'It will help' I said to myself; a rested body is a fit body. And being the positive peppy person that I am, I filled my brain with a lot of positive get-me-through-the-day thoughts. Like "It's going to be eeeeasy" and "It's going to be awesome fun" and "The weather forecast was for a very nice day". At least that last one turned out to be absolutely spot on, as the 2015 edition of the race was held in near perfect conditions, the sort of day Brisbane is famous for. Preparations were good, except for the training. Anyway, the alarm bell had gone off and I was up and going. Kissed my wife goodbye, she said some semi-reas

So I've recently decided to continue my reviewing things again on YouTube, as well as some other random videos that takes my fancy. I'm aiming for one video per day, but I doubt I will be able to keep it up. Anyway, I'm giving it a go. So my second video back is about my Samsung Galaxy Tab A, the 9.7 inch one with the S Pen. Here it is:   I uploaded it last night, put it on Facebook. Woke up this morning and KAPOOW! No views. Yep, not one single view. So I'm going to just track what happens, change a few things perhaps, play with tags etc. and see if I can learn a thing or two.  So a few points: - It's just a basic video, no editing, second take. Decided not to 'waste time' editing out the gaps, waffle and"uuum's" but I think it turned out OK.  - The thumbnail is basically what you see on the video, totally relevant but not 'eye-grabbingly delicious'. - I's a bit lengthy. - The focus was off for quite a bit of th

So recently I started reviewing items that I have purchased from eBay; you know, simple things like smartphone screen covers and cheap watches and a bunch of other stuff that I have needed and have been able to wait patiently for sometimes over a month to receive. I am going to start posting those things which I think are worthy of your dollars and I'm going to start with this oxymeter/oximeter (depending on how you prefer to spell it). Here is the review: I paid $25.95 on eBay, but I see that they are actually  available at Amazon for under $25  (and free shipping if you buy something else and the total is over $35). If you've ever needed one of these and can wait a little while for delivery, Amazon might be the way to go.