Where's the snow?!
Seriously, the news has been full with it's usual brand of rabid hysteria about anything which might be about to happen, about the expected snow storms we're supposed to be being stiff-upper-lipped and...
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Where have I gone wrong?
See this diagram in no way reflects my own experiences with blogging. Mine omits stages 4 and 5 while stage 8 is implicit throughout. I'm not entirely sure what deluded dreamer came up with that...
View ArticleTo sleep, perchance to dream.
Why do phone batteries wait until the middle of the night to go flat? I remember when a phone would hold it's charge for weeks before needing to be plugged in. But now the best you hope for is a few...
View ArticleNever one to gripe...
Ok just a little thing. My Dad is now the proud owner of a brand spanking new 160GB iPod Classic. Good for him, he works hard and seldom treats himself to any toys. Only thing is, he's only got a...
View ArticleFriends half empty.
Well it's official, or as official as such wholly subjective things can be, I'm roughly 50% as popular as I would have liked. Please, allow me to explain...Now it didn't start out as an experiment to...
View ArticleUrban legends, that ought to be true.
My Dad just recounted this tale, so I looked it up. Sad to say it is just an urban legend and has been circulating in one guise or another since the 60's at least. Still, given what we know of 'some'...
View ArticleThe phones are/were out...
I'm not sure I'll survive internetless long enough to be able to post this, with any luck the outage won't persist too long. I have a feeling it's probably a result of the guys across the road laying a...
View ArticleI don't care that 'it's more than a detergent'...
Come the revolution comrades; everybody involved in thinking up, approving, trademarking and producing the ad campaign in which the term 'safe-tergent' is used... are going against feckin the wall! I'm...
View ArticleQuite possibly the finest song...
...in the whole history of the freakin world! (Warning: vid may contains fat topless men which some veiwers may find disturbing. Oh, ladies nipples too)Rodney Carrington - Show Them To Me.
View ArticleNeed. More. Powwwwwer!!!
Why do I set myself such challenges? I'm currently working on my DVD-showreel thingie, which is involving much crunching of numbers for my 18 month old computer. It's presently burdened with rendering...
View ArticleMemory loss.
As I lay half awake this morning, a thought formed which gradually took on shape and mass and was quickly substantial enough to be worthy of a becoming a post... Not my standards for such things are...
View ArticleGet a hair cut!
Sure, it's advice I could well do with heeding myself. But in this instance it's directed towards that Scottish ponce who presents the BBC's Coast series. No man ought to have hair that reaches past...
View ArticleSacrilege!
ITV have now plundered even lower depths than continuing to commission The Jeremy Kyle show. They've edited Shaun Of The Dead for language. It's 10 at night, how many people watching are going to be...
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When sleeping dragons wake.
I've just heard that last week Big White, my old stomping ground, was hit by it's first ever inbounds avalanche during the day. Tragically someone was killed. Looking at the aftermath and judging by...
View ArticleFeel the burn!
Ooh me thighs! I've taken it upon myself to fight the flab by aiming to do about 20 miles a day on my recent purchase. I got a new exercise bike just before xmas for a staggering bargain of only £40,...
View ArticleOrder of the day... A big long sulk.
I am sort of feeling like a car crash today. Not as in having been in one, not as the driver or passenger. More how the car itself would feel if it were, for example, run over by a tank. You know at...
View ArticleSimply offensive
Is there, anywhere on TV, anything more instantly offensive and painful to eye or ear, than the opening credits of Hollyoaks? It's the televisual equivalent to throwing a grenade into a room full of...
View ArticleNot in anyway annoying.
Great, fantastic, just bloody awesome... My copy of the otherwise marvelous Ulead DVD Workshop 2, (for building DVD architecture). Has decided it's going to crash every time I try to drop an image into...
View ArticleI will not be defeated!
Ok so following on from yesterday. I discovered why my program was so suddenly crash-happy... 16:9. Yes you can add clips into DVD Workshop 2 in a letterbox aspect ratio, but not menu's. Which...
View ArticleIt never rains...
Rather an apt title given the present precipitation our island nation is being innundated with. But the British obsession with the weather aside. Just as I sort one problem on my computer out, another...
View ArticleKevin Macalister is I.
Stuck as I am once again, home alone with naught but a grumpy moggy and a tankful of fish for company. Still I have one or two things to keep me busy until the parentals return from their jaunt to...
View ArticleI always knew they were overpriced...
Pizzas, how much do they cost? Even a bog standard margarita will set you back a couple of quid. I'm feeling rather smug with myself, (it doesn't take a lot) as last night I made a pizza, from scratch,...
View ArticleBricking it!
If I were any less a cool calm collected man about town than I am, I would probably need to wear a nappy. The procrastination is over, the relocation to Leeds is afoot. My DVD showreel is finally at a...
View ArticleWas that an Earthquake?
Seriously was it? Sounded like a really large truck pulling up outside but then the building rattled like a bastard. I dare say there will be those who were experiencing the peak of physical congress...
View ArticleLook out Guildford, here I come!
Holy crap... I've only gone and got myself employed! I'm not going to say with who obviously, but it's in Guildford and will improbably combine my love of Snowboarding and my skills in graphic design....
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