After a pretty successful partial detox in February of this year I thought I would have another go. I think that being the summer, the issue I experienced with tiredness might not be such a problem with lighter evenings and getting out more.

I plan on cutting out the same toxins and junk food as last time. However, this time it will be for the month of August (31 days) instead of the exact 4 weeks of February.

I will cut out the following:

• Coffee
• Tea
• Sweeteners (tablet and powdered)
• Alcohol
• Tobacco (easy one as I don't smoke ;-) )
• Chips
• Chocolate
• Coke (diet/regular/caffeine free)

After the month, I'll let you know how I got on. Can I do it? Of course I can, I did it before.

After having no ADSL broadband at home for the last 23 days, I've been using mobile broadband. My ISP, Orange, are quite slow at fixing things and I seem to have the same problem every 6 months. This is now the third such problem. The first time, they fixed it in 7 days. The second time took a bit longer at 10 days and this time, well, it's taking much longer.

You may remember I wrote an article last September about my first impressions of this relativley new mobile broadband technology and was quite impressed.

In May I stumbled across a Three mobile dongle for the special price of £4.95 and thought I would get one for emergencies, holidays etc. However, I didn't expect I'd need it so soon.

The upside of having the dongle is the speed is on a par with my home broadband connection. The downside however for occasional use like this, is that you don't know how much to top it up by. On Three they offer different levels of top-ups. The more you spend the more bandwidth you get. For £10 you get 1GB. For £15 you get 3GB and for £25 you get 7GB. Because I thought the connection would only be down for 7-10 days, I bought a £10 top-up. With Orange not fixing the problem within this time, the 1GB data allowance proved not enough.

Whilst reading some of the Nokia related news feeds I subscribe to, I read an article on nokiAAddict.com about a piece of software called JoikuSpot. JoikuSpot is piece of software for Nokia Smart phones (I have the E71) that allows you to use your phone as a wireless hotspot. As I have a 500MB data allowance on my Orange mobile phone tariff I thought I might as well use some of this data, as I never seem to use all of it every month. As my phone supports HSDPA at 3.6Mbps the same as the dongle, I thought the performance should be about the same.

Below are two speed tests. One from the dongle and one from the phone. Although the dongle is faster in the test, for web browsing the phone was fast enough and allowed for multiple machines to be connected to it easier due to the fact it shows as a wireless access point and there is no connection sharing necessary. The only downsides with the phone is that with the free version of JoikuSpot, you cannot secure the connection. Also, once you've used the 500MB you get with Orange for £5 per month, extra data is charged at £0.98/MB.

For some time there have been spy photos appearing on the web. There have also been many artists impressions of what the final car might look like. The wait is over. AutoBild have leaked the official pictures of the production 9-5 onto the web for the world to see.

I must say I'm not a big fan of the design so far but being such a Saab fan, I'm sure it will grow on me in time.

One of my favourite motorsport events of the year is the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This is now my fourth year of attendance and it always amazes me the variety of famous racing cars and drivers that members of the public can get so close to. This is like no other event on the sporting calendar. Below are my pictures from this years event. Enjoy!


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