The adventures of Almigo

I have three of the four things it can plug into. This is a good thing. There's nothing like reading the fine print a couple of hours before an event starts and realising you're one part of equipment short. In today's case it was a free online 3d moddeling course my wife had organised for my son as part of keeping him entertained these school holidays. 'Do we have a microphone that can plug into the laptop?' Er, no. We don't even have a microphone that could plug into anything else either. Thankfully the closest JB Hi Fi was only ten minutes away and Jackson's course wasn't kicking off for another couple of hours. On the way I had the genius move of trying a gaming headset - he could use it for this, I could use it for potential recording for Youtube work (and playing games loud at night and not waking the neighbourhood.) So we ventured into the car yard like selection of gaming headsets at JB and got lost incredibly quickly..

Ahh it's June Flashback time. And once upon a time I thought it might be a good idea to try my hand...as a movie reviewer. This looks interesting...

For the next three weeks I've got the fun job of not only giving away three Fitbit Flex's on my radio show thanks to the local Harvey Norman but also roadtesting one myself. If you've never seen nor heard of the Fitbit before, it basically looks like this: My own bodyhair. Copyright 2014 Almigo All Rights Reserved. And it basically does this while you forget it's there:   It fits around your wrist and records just about everything. How many steps you take on a daily basis, how much of your tasty meals you're burning through - even how much sleep you're getting including time take to toss and turn! It syncs up with your phone (or pc if your phone isn't new enough) and at a flick of your app, you can get up to date info on how your journey to INCREDIBLE FITNESS and MAD SWOLENESS you're actually getting. I reckon it's a brilliant little bit of kit and I can see why they're selling like diet hot cakes. And in the three days I've ...