Paul Madge

What an unusual and magnificent film!, 23 May 2013

Yann Martel's novel has been made into an excellent and thought provoking film than can be as deep or superficial in its meaning as you like. Directed by Ang Lee this film will haunt you for days. The visual effects are so realistic and wonderful - it's hard to imagine that all the animals are "virtual animals" - they are so realistic. With this fact in mind, it can, at first sight, it can be quite an emotional film for some animal lovers and it may help to watch the "making of" feature of this DVD first - doing so does not spoil the storyline when you see the film and the insight into the filming arguably adds to the experience. The acting is first rate too and Pi is actually played by 4… Read more

Well worth your cache!, 21 May 2013

I bought this SanDisk Readycache kit to fit to my 2 year old HP desktop running Windows 7 (64 bit) with an i5 Core processor, 10Gb RAM and and a 1TB disc which is around 40% full. I installed this device myself, although, I don't know that much about PC hardware and it appeared to work first time.

What you get in the box; a SanDisk 32GB SSD (it can only be used for caching not data); plus; a SATA data cable; mounting bracket with screws; instructions and an activation code for the Express Cache software which you have to download from the Sandisk site for this device to work.

To install the SSD cache you;

- Open your PC and find a suitable mounting point for… Read more

A practical and useful book, 21 May 2013

This book by Dr Nic Peeling could so easily have turned out to be a collection of statistics as it is written as the result of research amongst hundreds of retirees. Dr Peeling himself is a recent retiree.

The book covers the usual facets of retirement, health, mental wellbeing, relationships and finance etc. It is well written plus clear and concise with a touch of wry humour. The credibility of the information is enhanced by the fact that it is based on research amongst retirees plus input from specialist contributors in the field of finance etc. Additionally, the presentation is much more lighthearted (but still very relevant) compared to other books of this type with lots of… Read more