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 [...]
Here Christmas Show Nov 30th - Dec 22nd (and then some) - (Flickr user Peskimo // Jodie & David).
“Here” is a gallery and shop in Bristol. It’s where we bought our smashing Peskimo mouth picture, at a craft show just like the one advertised here. If you live anywhere near Bristol, it’s worth a [...]
Debbie bought me the Twin Peaks Season 1 DVD boxed set for my birthday, and we finished watching it last night. It was fantastic.
I remember when it was first broadcast, people thought it was tremendously confusing. Strangely, it no longer seems complicated at all, nor even that weird. I wonder whether the series [...]
Ajay’s GrowsOnYou.com now incorporates a seed exchange application. It’s simple enough - you can advertise seeds you want to swap with someone, and what you’d like in return, and you can respond to those adverts in a private message to the poster.
It’s a good idea, either for getting rid of half-used commercial packets, or [...]
Pfft, mashup makes it sound all sophisticated. It’s three lines of HTML.
The BBC runs a webcam that gazes over the Glastonbury Festival site, so you can watch it slowly mutate from a valley spoilt only by agriculture, into a valley spoilt by a huge festival, and back.
This year the service spans three cameras, and [...]
The thing I like about O’Reilly books is that they get straight to the point. They’re not too dry — there is wit and readability, but not at the expense of conciseness. The antithesis of this is the Idiot’s Guide series, which patronises the reader with overlong explanations of simple concepts.
And then there’s Why’s [...]
Ajay came to visit this weekend — for Tom’s birthday celebrations. He told me that his website project is ready for public consumption.
Growsonyou.com is a social networking site for gardeners — gardeners can show off photographs of their gardening triumphs, ask questions or answer them.
If you’re interested in gardens, give it a go — [...]
This is an article I wrote for the Leamington FC Fanzine Windmill Wonderland. It was distributed at the Retford United FA Vase match last month, and since it’s sold out now, I thought I’d publish the article here as well.
Curzon Ashton knocked us out of the FA Vase this weekend, by the way. 4-1 [...]
Jim and I went to the Spa Centre cinema — on what turned out to be cheap ticket night — to see Forest Whitaker be Idi Amin in Last King of Scotland.
Debbie didn’t fancy it, so I went while she was teaching an evening class. Her loss though. She came home to some homemade [...]
We watched two films this weekend.
Crank is High Concept: hitman Jason Statham has been poisoned, and the only way he can stay alive long enough to exact revenge is to keep his adrenaline level up by whatever means necessary.
It’s ridiculous — it’s as if the script was written by a load of drunks, and [...]