A blonde's musings on the technological world around her ...

The term “Bond Girl” is synonymous in modern culture with women who are glamorous, gorgeous and, most of all, sexy. Everyone wants to be a Bond Girl and if you are fortunate enough to star in a Bond film, it becomes an infinite component of who you are.

It is difficult to live up to the image of the first film Bond Girl, Ursula Andres. When she

This month Superdrug launched “Taxi man”, the first high street cosmetics range for men. The creator, Peter Kelly said that “It’s about subtle make up rather than wanting to create the drag queen look.” However, are modern men masculine enough to wear mascara?

The male grooming market is expanding dramatically. Last year £700 million was spent on

It has finally happened. Nowhere is safe. Not only have we filled the our solar system with parts of disused space ships, littered the moon with flags and buggies and congested the expanse of space with radio waves, now we have sent a computer viruse into space.

The W32.Gamimma.AG worm has escaped the confines of planet earth. Inside a laptop it was carried by

Last night a small office on the west end of Princes Street was the venue for this months Scottish JUGS meeting. That's Java User Group if you've not heard of a JUG before. I hadn't. Apparently throughout Europe, and the world, there are hundereds of Java User groups with membership ranging from 15 in the case of Edinburgh to 30000 in Brazil. That's an impressive

Last year World of Warcraft, or WOW, was the pastime of pale faced computer geeks who never left their basement flats. This year WOW has hit the big time. Prime time television adverts featuring the actors of "Mr T" and "Mini-me" have helped increase player numbers to almost 11 million world wide. But what has made it so popular? And why is it so derided by others?

Harrison Ford is back!

Indiana Jones cracks his whip once more to save the day in an extraordinary adventure. I am an Indi fan of old and love the film because it was so true to the characteristics of the origional films. The action scenes were very impressive. However, the vilian was a tad predictable and shallow.

If you liked lego star wars you will love lego

For the guy who has everything from the woman with money to burn. The ipod is the gift I would most like to see in my stocking this Christmas.

The ipod is apple’s first foray into the mobile phone business. But at over £600 they have priced themselves out of most of the mobile phone market. Some argue that it is value for money because to buy a

The Nintendo Wii is big news this Christmas. It is the most searched for term on ebay hitting over 30000 where as the play station and xbox only reach under half this.

However, the Wii is not new news. Like many of my geek friends the Wii has been sitting under my TV for nearly 6 months now. It was actually launched in the UK on the 8^th of December 2006.

The festive season is upon us and in the next few blog articles we feature the must have tech gifts for this Christmas.  So look out for comments on the wii, ipod and other weird and wonderful gifts.

Ok - so I can't spell the name of the company, and I still don't understand what it is they actually do - but their website is certainly pretty.

So what, I hear you ask, is my connection with this company? It certainly isn't for the coding stuff, although the training might be a good start for me ;) No, I know about it because HandyAnde, the main driving force