This is not a review of the film 30 Days of Night, because I’m too lazy to do that. Alright then, quickly: rather scary monsters, well done gore, ultimately doesn’t hold interest long enough.
Review ends.
No, what I really wanted to do was release some pedantry about the setting. It’s explicitly set in Barrow, […]
Google has an informal company motto, ‘Don’t be evil’. I wonder how that’s going, when there’s pressure from governments and shareholders. Privacy advocates are already doubting.
But enough of Google. Has O’Reilly Media ever done anything evil? They always seem squeaky clean, virtuous even.
Having published PDF and HTML versions of many of their books for […]
Last Wednesday, I told you that the credibility of the artist in this weekly alphabetical look at my CD collection would rise sharply this week, then plunge next week. Actually that was based on a mis-sorted CD shelf. Next week’s plunge was to be Bryan Adams’ Waking Up The Neighbours. Due to the mis-sorting, […]
It’s a little known fact (although people love to snort about how Israel isn’t in Europe) that the Eurovision Song Contest is not a contest for European countries, but for members of the European Broadcasting Union, which itself admits broadcasters from the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Here are the European countries which have broadcasters […]
Barry Cryer (”The man who first showed Lord Reith where the photocopier was”) made an appearance on Radio 4’s The Now Show on Friday. After being funny for a few minutes, he recited a poem, with ‘Chariots of Fire’ (or a pastiche thereof) playing in the background:
Speed onward bright Olympic torch
Your flames may flicker […]
Remember University of Death?
When January came and nobody had given it to me as a Christmas present, I went ahead and bought it from Lulu.com, and I got to work late, reading the last two chapters in bed, then the ‘deleted scenes’ on the loo.
I’m still ill-placed to review it, being friends with Sean. […]
Advance notice: February the 1st is the fourth annual ‘Take Your Box Camera to Work Day’. It will be my first.
I tell you this now, so that if you have the faintest interest, you can dig out or obtain a box camera, get some medium format film, and learn to load it, all in […]
So, I ordered an actual tangible CD of Radiohead’s In Rainbows today. I feel like such a fogey old relic.
Yesterday, I did some experimenting with Amazon’s DTP — “Digital Text Platform”. This is the service that allows anyone to create eBooks for the Kindle, and sell them on Amazon. Or rather, it allows Amazon to sell them, and give you a 35% cut.
What I discovered is that this publishing lark isn’t as easy […]
My friend Sean McManus has announced his self-published first novel, University of Death. This is me doing my bit to help publicise it.
I have only read the two preview chapters, as you can too if you click through the links, and anyway, I doubt I could detach myself from my friendship with the […]