G. C. blackwood

great piece of kit, flawed reliability, 25 Nov 2011

I use the keyboard to interact from the couch with my laptop that is running through my tv. My laptop has few usb ports, so usung my laptops built in bluetooth connection was important to me. Battery life is good, functionality is good, features good; it does pretty much everything I need it to. This would be a 5 star review if it were't for the reliability of the unit.
This is my second unit in 6 months, and it's already after just a day starting to suffer the same faults as my last one. The mouse track pad becomes irratic after some use, the fumction key stops changing the function of the track pad to cursor keys, and the page up/down keys stop working. All of this is very… Read more

It's a Marmite movie, I love Marmite, 15 Sep 2007

The last Wes Anderson film I saw at the cinema had half the audience in tears with amusment, and half stunned in bewilderment. I fall into the former catagory, and adore his twisted sense of humour, where deadly serious moments of drama are used to deliver brilliant comic lines- this leaves me a little guilty at laughing sometimes, but laughing none the less. But there are a lot of people who just don't GET Wes Anderson. I can only agree with any number of reviews here, that the characters in this movie are superb, an amazing cast, amazing performances. Most films made are rubbish. This is a rare exception. Like another reviewer, I have about 140 dvds, but unlike him, I rank this amongst… Read more

A great book, 15 Sep 2007

Unlike other reviews, I do not feel I need to qualify my comments with precision- this isn't a great book about Vietnam, or war, or flying- this is a great book, plain and simple. It's a rollercoaster ride, with highs of excitement, lows of despair- all told with a breath-taking honesty- you WILL care about the author. Two female friends of mine with no interest in the military read it and were thouroughly moved. I read quite a bit, and I rate this as highly as anything I've ever picked up. If you read this, you won't be disappointed.