Hail Satan! If you haven't listened to the Tenacious D album, do so as you're in for a treat. Excellent stuff!

Bring forth the devices... If like me you think carrying around a phone and a PDA is every so slightly silly a while ago I took procession of an Orange M1000, nice device which I swapped for my C500. When a colleague needed to borrow one I ended up letting them keep it as I had upgraded the OS on my C500 to Mobile 2005, mainly to try out push email. Lucky me then with my new role means that get my hands on all the latest devices, as apparently a new Orange M5000 is in the post. Based on the HTC Universal of which a variant is the upcoming O2 Xda Exec it’s packed with lovely gizmology. 3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPRS etc etc. For me the big advantage is like my C500 it comes with Windows Mobile 5 but due to the larger screen and build in keyboard mobile mail and web browsing are a lot easier; load on the mobile version of MS Communicator and I’m done. Hey, it’s even a phone HTC who make these devices have a whole boatload of new designs in the pipe line and with people like Motorola and Samsung lining up a range of Windows Mobile phones we’ll be spoilt for choice.

Lets go Mobile I start my new job at MS Towers at the end of November and Daz was right it does have to do with Windows Mobile. I’ll be looking after the mobile device world with Business Partners and will go by the grand moniker of Solution Channel Development Manager, so if you want to know anything about Smartphones, PDAs and other handhelds you know where to find me.

A few days on the country I’m a bit of a fan of Boutique Hotels. Small, often one off establishments that offers great food, fabulous accommodation and fawning service. So to celebrate Karen finishing her OU exams, my new job and selling the house we spend a few nights at the Cotswold House in Chipping Campden, oh and we could take the Izzy. Having visited a few of these types of hotel and Karen having been in the travel business we do tend to set the standards rather high; and why not? They ain’t exactly cheap. Cotswold House has obviously had a huge amount of money spent on it and don’t get me wrong we had a great time, but when compared to some of the others we’ve been too it’s missing something. The devil as always is in the detail and this is the problem, the décor is a bit tired in places, nothing you’d normally notice but Karen spots this stuff straight away, fixtures needing a bit of TLC and some odd room layouts. And it’s probably over priced by about 25 to 30%. Again don’t get me wrong it’s not bad, it’s just not the best and at this price point it should be, but I suspect that the location alone sells it to most visitors.

Music car house job Got hold of a Creative Neeon this week and I’m very impressed. It’s about the size of a matchbox and is all shiny and black. The battery life makes the iPod Mini look positively leaky in comparison and attached to a pair of Shure E2C headphones sounds excellent. I did look at a Nano but was warned off the 4Gb model but too may of them are either DOA or fall apart, the 2Gb version has a completely different set of guts and is pretty rock solid. The Neeon’s 5Gb drive means I can stick as many WMAs on as I’m ever likely to need and the built in FM radio and voice recorder means not having to fork out for add-ons. The Coupe is now up for sale and the hunt now starts for a replacement. Finding a Volvo V70R of a suitable vintage that hasn’t been to the moon and back is proving difficult, this is further compounded by someone asking why not replace the Coupe with another BMW? Well I asked, show me where I can find a BMW of a similar age for 10K and has enough room for two dogs. Well it seems it ain’t as difficult as it seems as E39 5 Series Tourings on a W plate are on or there abouts and this includes the monster 540. We’ve sold the house but can’t find anywhere to move too. It’s not a problem as the buyer doesn’t mind waiting. And as if that wasn’t enough I have gone and got another job at MS Towers, which reminds me that my chum Daz, who has multiple device syndrome, can easily be cured by a something like this.

And it's Goodnight from... Sometimes when someone who you've never met dies your world subtly changes and will never be the same again; for me the sad death of Ronnie Barker is one such a occasion. I grew up watching The Two Ronnies, Porridge and Open All Hours, the man was comedy genuis and the world is a poorer, a much poorer place, without him.

Die Spammers Die! There's a special place in hell for spammers, be they of the email variety or the newer blog kind. Until then there's 'Word Verification' as pointed by Mr Ports.