Thre are a couple of interesting articles on the internet where people have gathered together a whole year’s headlines from a couple of newspapers. Bibliophylax did 2011 as the Express saw it and Scott Bryan did the same for the Daily Star. Very depressing it is too. I thought I might do a little analysis, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
The Return Man
January 31st, 2012 · No Comments · Life
The other day I finished a proof copy of a book called The Return Man by V.M.Zigo. It is due to be published in March and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. It is a book set in a future where a mystery virus has created zombies, but the outbreak has been containe, albeit to a [...]
The name’s Bond. James Bond
January 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
I have been on a bit of a DVD binge recently, and over the last week or so have watched all the Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig Bond films. I wasn’t in the mood for anything too challenging and just wanted to be entertained. It has been a while since I watched some [...]
Tags: DVD
Crawlé
January 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
Last week there was a report in the local paper about Nestlé moving their HQ from Croydon to Crawley. I was quite stunned by this for several reasons. One is that the local papers have been full of ‘jam tomorrow’ stories about businesses moving into the area lately. These stories herald everything as a done [...]
Betta Bilda
January 10th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
In one of those strange coincidences I had some thoughts about toy building blocks this morning, specifically Betta Bilda bricks, and then in the afternoon a colleague raised the topic of Lego in a conversation, giving me the opportunity to voice my recently-formed theory about Betta Bilda.
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays
Tokyo Gore Police
January 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
Sometimes a film comes along where just the title makes you think that at least it won’t be boring. Many of these are Japanese and one of them is Tokyo Gore Police. How’s this for a summary? From the people who gave you The Machine Girl comes the even crazier Tokyo Gore Police! The makeup [...]
Tags: DVD
2011 – glad to see the back of it
December 31st, 2011 · No Comments · Life
What a year 2011 has been. It was as if the world had suddenly noticed the proliferation of rolling news channels and social media, noticed how much waffle was on them all and decided it had better come up with stuff to fill them all. And so we had tsunamis, floods, a royal wedding, phone [...]
Tags: 2011
Kindle vs Sony Reader
December 30th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Life, Technology
A lot of people got a Kindle this christmas, according to Amazon’s PR and verified by my Twitter feed where half the people I follow seem to have one now. Jayne and I bought each other a Kindle. I thought it might be fun to do a little review and compare the Kindle to the [...]
Tags: Gadgets
Chavez out-crazies the Daily Mail
December 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life
With Gaddafi and Kim Jong-Il out of the way the world had the potential to have a little less crazy in it, but Hugo Chavez has stepped in to compensate by suggesting that the US government has found a way to infect left-wing Latin American leaders with cancer. Even the Daily Mail hasn’t come up [...]
Tags: Chavez
Scrap the Paralympics
December 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life
I have been saying since at least 2008 that the Paralympics should be laid to rest, so I was glad to see the other day that it is an opinion that is gaining a bit more support (as well as a fair bit of opposition). It is too late to make any change in time [...]
Tags: London 2012·Olympics
