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Hmm, been doing a bit much waving around of opinions & reminiscing, and not enough recounting of what in the Dickens I’ve been up to lately, so here’s a roundup (in reverse chronological order). 29th : Night of 400 Billion Stars / Robin Ince & Friends – returning to the Bloomsbury (the scene of Ince’s…
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…
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…
(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!
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…
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…
This post was sort of inspired by reading Wil Wheaton’s recent piece reminiscing about arcade gaming. It was a particularly memory-inducing post, because as a child of the 80’s (or more accurate, a child of the mid-70’s, growing up in the 80’s), arcade games were a fairly present part of childhood, and who doesn’t like…
Just read in an interview with Ross Noble the following statement about my home town, Adelaide: Whereas other cities have spread themselves over several streets, Adelaide has not felt the need to do that. They’ve just gone, “Yeah, one street should do it. We’ll put the shops up one end and the restaurants down the…
OK, so one of my favourite particle physicists – Dr Simon Singh, author of “Big Bang” (the best book I’ve ever read on the development of understanding of the origin of the universe) – is in a spot of legal hot water at the moment surrounding a comment piece he wrote for The Guardian (mirrored…
What a weekend! This year saw the 75th anniversary of The Morris Ring, celebrated at the Thaxted Ring Meeting (I know, the what?!), and once again the Westminster Morris Men were honoured to participate. What this translates into for our young hero is a weekend absolutely jam-packed with dancing, beer sampling, travelling around Essex, watching…