So there’s some footie happening in South Africa at the moment. I am so out of touch with sport that I only realised when all the England flags appeared on the cars.

I don’t get Football, I have no interest in any of this. Which reminds me of a conversation I had with a work colleague in 2002. England were doing quite well in the competition. My colleague was a big football fan. A Crystal Palace supporter whom we all called ‘Palace’ as a nickname.

Palace: “Dave, if England was in the final of the World Cup, would you watch?”
Dave: “No!”
Palace: “What! But it’s ENGAND, in the FINAL of the World Cup!”
Dave: “22 blokes kicking a ball about, I’d be bored stupid within 10 seconds. However it would be a brilliant time to go to the supermarket for shopping.”
Palace: “WTF! You’re weird.”

So there you have it, I’ll be in ASDA if you need me durning the England games.

As previously reported I really like my MiFi from ’3′. However the device is crippled by firmware locked down by ’3′.

But I tracked down some new firmware and thus have unlocked the device. I can now use any SIM, and better still I have a web interface to the device. I have also set it up so that it switches on, turns on the WiFi, connects to the 3G network at the push of a single button. Neat eh?

Quite why ’3′ does not do this as standard is a bit of a mystery.

I would offer instructions on how to do this but when I let my friend Ashley try it on his device he managed to brick it so I am a little reluctant to make the software public.