Amid last night’s Michael Jackson news festival, a rumour popped up on Twitter that Jeff Goldblum had also died.  Upon getting home I thought it a good idea to follow this up, and clicked on the link.  Now, because of the 140 character limit in twitter messages URL redirectors have become quite widespread, and perhaps [...] Read more

My Google Reader account has 360 newsfeeds in it.  As such, I’ve totally stopped reading the freesheet newspapers that are provided around the London Underground - the Metro, the London Lite, and The London Paper.  Y’know… reading them hardly seems relevant when they’re largely an amalgamation of stories that have been harvested off everyone else’s [...] Read more

(Obviously, altered to look more like an MP receipt to make it appear topical…) I believe the vernacular phrase for this sort of thing is: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Read more

It hardly seems relevant now, but that’s never stopped me in the past - one of the key elements I totally forgot to refer to in the Arcade Gaming story was the 3-letter-nicknames thing!  As with most computer games, arcade games always had a High Score table - the difference between the modern setup and [...] Read more

Ordinarily I wouldn’t bitch about fashion availability, but this concerns the potential purchase of a pair of Awesome Trousers.  My life’s goal is the acquisition of Awesome Trousers.  I can’t seem to back this claim up with readily available photographs, but it’s true. Anyway, I just got an email from a company I’ve bought cool stuff [...] Read more