Unemployed, former local journalist. Nerd, living in the North West of England. I like tech I can't afford, things I don't need, TV, movies, firmware updates, The Tick, Warcraft, and music. This is the sort of stuff I'll probably write about here. In short this blog is a distraction from pondering if I will ever get a new job and to stop me obsessively rep farming all of my toons. You have been warned. If you want to advertise or give me free stuff to write about, get in touch!Read more about me »
About nine years ago, at some strange hour on Channel 4, this appeared. I was wholly amazed. It was weird. And great. The animator is Satoshi Tomioka, and I didn’t know it at the time. In fact, it wasn’t until I saw an advert for Honda called “OK Factory” that I went looking for him [...]
Nul points. Yep, that’s what we’re going to get this year at Eurovision. Did you watch the debacle that was Your Country Needs You on BBC1 on Friday? We were all expectant as this year’s song for Europe is written by Pete Waterman and Mike Stock, two of the gurus of pop. But what did [...]
With the exception of maybe, Snow Leopard (which doesn’t count), I have never purchased and installed an entirely new operating system for any of my machines in the many, MANY years I have been using them. I’ve always either bought a new one, with a new OS on it, or soldiered on with whatever I [...]
