Adam Chamberlin

Every where you turn some one is talking about caring for the environment and doing your bit. One of the main subjects of concern is packaging and the critical issue carrier bags. Now obviously because I work in the pacakaging industryit does make me a bit biased, but on the other hand most of my leisure time is spent enjoying the outdoors so I’m not writing this from a business point of view,...

So I’ve made the switch from Windows to Mac. But hold on, I hear you cry, you have been a Mac user for years. Well, that is true but only in the ‘home user’ market. Recently, I’ve made the move to the work office environment. Oscar Products is a small business and, like many small businesses’ in the UK, we use Sage for all our accounts, purchasing and sales orders. If there was an open source or...

This Monday it will be October 1st, the year feels like it is flying away. Once again this year shibbyonline will be going PinkForOctober in aid of breast cancer awareness. Given that Jacqui is back in hospital at present for further surgery it feels the right time to show some support. But that’s not all on the 15th I will also be taking part in Blog Action Day. This is an idea that multiple...

There are times like today when I just love living in sleepy, quiet Sudbury. Because it means there are no queues at Woolworths and you canjust walk on in a pickup a copy of Halo3! This game has been in the making for the last 37 years, or so it seems. I know that Chris has had it on pre-order at Amazon since April 2006! As usual, I did not pre-order, I did not panic and run around I just took my...

It is the morning of the 24th September; around 8:30, and by all accounts I should not be here. In fact, I should be somewhere in Scotland on a bike making a dash for the border, taking part in another end to end cycle ride. Yet instead I’m sitting here with a laptop trying to decide what to do today. Beginning of the month, everything looked to be on track for another crack at cycling the length...

I just cannot stand reality shows; Big Bother, I’m a Celebrity and anything else like that just makes my skin crawl. The only thing worse than those shows are the talent shows; X Idol, Pop Factor, Britain’s Next Drama Queen. They are all just excuses for 15 minutes of fame. Lucy, on the other hand, loves them, so much so that Saturday evening we had to watch another round of qualifying for X...

Look through your feeds, notice something missing? Content? Yep, I’ve been elsewhere the last few days. Understandable if you had this parked outside! It all started last week, having ordered the bike I was getting like a school boy at Christmas, I could not concentrate on anything and was turned upside down. Finally, Monday the 3rd arrived and I set off to collect my new machine. Since then, I...

Online cycle shop Wiggle are running a competition currently where they are giving away a full Shimano XT groupset. All you have to do is tell them why you dersve it over all overs. Here is my excuse: I think I deserve a new XT groupset as my bike needs one badly and I’ve begged the other half but I can’t buy anything new until she has her wisdom teeth out. So I’m having to ride around using a...

In the last 24 hours or so, details of Canon’s replacement for the 30D have been unveiled. It started with Amazon ‘accidentally’ putting the page live of their site, then counter details were released across the tubes. I, for one, use Digital Photography Review as my source of all things Photography based, so when I see it there I start believing. Whoot! Given that I only upgraded the camera body...

Earlier this week, I passed my DAS test, which means I am now able to ride any size bike (insurance costs permitting) I wish. So to get my foot on the bike ladder I went out and purchased my first motorbike; a Yamaha FZ6 S2. Ok, technically this is not my very first motorbike, when I turned 16 I did not go down the usual route and wait for a car, I opted to get on the road early and my parent...