Sesame Street, man. The early 70s (and by extension, re-runs in the mid-late 70s onwards) was a helluva time for educational TV, cos nobody really had any idea what it was. Sesame Street churned out some amazing stuff – and
Having recently changed jobs to work for a fairly sizable UK-based web hosting company, I found myself considering my web hosting setup. The bulk of the websites I tool about with in my spare time are WordPress, just because of
As you get older, life serves up certain inevitabilities. In 1994 I was contacted by the Boy Scouts of America to inform me that I’d been successful in applying to be a summer camp counsellor, and would be heading off
(Note: I started writing this about a year and ago and am only now getting around to publishing, so it starts as exploration then turns more into a review…) Now that we’ve got a large tiled area to keep clean,
So… TECHNICALLY I shouldn’t put this in a roundup, because we haven’t finished watching it. However it really rates a mention, owing to the fact that in its original broadcast form I believe each episode is movie-length. What Netflix cunningly
A lot of people* have asked me what the “B” in “Jason B Standing” stands for. Another way to phrase it is “What’s your middle name?”, however I suppose in this case because I’ve proffered the “B” to them in
Never had a proper beard before… not 100% sure about it. Someone the other day said I looked like Christopher Lee from Lord of the Rings. I think I need to put some text underneath the image, or this thing
I think it was a combination of Chris Hoban and Annabel Meikle’s comments on Facebook that kicked this idea into reality – I’ve long suspected that the obscurity and specificity of crisp flavours was a bit of a sham, and
To date in my life I’ve been pretty smug about something – I’ve never lost a wallet, a set of keys, or been pickpocketed*. I’d put this down to maintaining a general sense of awareness, and some behaviour patterns to
Bluetooth – according to the globally accepted source of all accurate knowledge – was described in 1989 and implemented in 1994. It’s now 2019. 25 years. You’d think SOMEONE would have gotten it to work properly by now. The dearly