With climate change all over the news at the moment, I’ve been thinking about cheap flights. My personal carbon footprint from flying in the last five years has been enormous:
4 return journeys to the US on business in the last 6 months
Bali
The US on holiday on at least 5 occasions
Sundry flights to Europe for [...]
I don’t know who three of these people are.
Lik-Sang was always my first port of call for game imports.
Now they’re out of business, crushed by Sony’s opposition to, well, game imports.
Now, I understand Sony’s desire to control their market, but to dress it up as concern for the customer is pretty cynical. I’ll miss Lik-Sang: let’s hope their business crops up under [...]
Leamington’s latest chain pizza/pasta restaurant — because an Ask, a Zizzi’s and a Prezzo weren’t enough, not to mention the independant Piccolino’s — is Strada, taking a prime position on Livery St., right next to the Regent Hotel’s Travelodge entrance.
We decided to try it for Happy Friday, with Jim, Gary, MC and Steve.
The decor [...]
Laura sent me an excited email because one of the embroidery sites she frequents had something about Decemberists embroidery patterns in it. You could only buy them at gigs on their forthcoming tour, it said.
Forthcoming tour? I’d allowed my Decemberists radar to lapse.
It turns out that there is indeed a new album: The Crane Wife [...]
Several times in the last 10 years, I’m mentioned a difficulty in getting my head around Object Oriented design (here, for example). I read Java books and felt I understood every page, yet when it came to writing something real and useful, I would struggle to get started on an OO implementation, and quickly [...]
Polls are always useful on slow news days. The Guardian certainly seems to have snapped up a press release from Yahoo about a poll which places A Nightmare on Elm Street as the scariest film ever.
I never rated A Nightmare on Elm Street very much — it didn’t scare me, its central logic made [...]
Slither was our Sunday night DVD entertainment. Although it is billed as a horror comedy, I would describe it more as a lighthearted comedy. It doesn’t have many jokes as such, but it chooses to go for a wisecracking lightness of tone rather than being a grim, tense ordeal throughout.
Slither is “from the makers [...]
On Saturday, we celebrated my birthday earlier this week by spending most of the day in pubs. The plan was to crawl along Emscote Road from Warwick to Leamington.
I set off for my walk to work today (having seen the doctor: I’m fine) and checked my iPod for podcasts. On it was an In Our Time programme entitled “The Diet of Worms”.
Gosh, I thought, that’s a bit left-field, but it could be interesting. I know that worms consume plant litter and their [...]