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  • Sadly, I had no gold or prostitutes with me.

    I’ve just finished a short contract working out in Slough. I was amused to read the following posted on the toilet door:“Please leave these toilets as you would wish to find them.” As the title of this post attests, I was unable to help.

  • Des nouveaux chevaliers au grand coeur

    It seems that the theme tune to Starsky and Hutch was quite different on the other side of the channel. Wacka wacka wacka.

  • Write On – Part the Second

    And it just so happens that my good friend and housemate Nick has written a novel. And posted the first chapter on YouWriteOn. So why not give the man some encouragement and check it out?

  • Write On – Part the First

    The Arts Council of the UK have introduced this new website called YouWriteOn. You can blame them for the lack of spaces. The idea is that up-and-coming prose writers can put up the first three chapters of their novels, where they’ll be read, reviewed, and rated by members of the public. So far so blah. […]

  • Macs now run Windows XP. Natively.

    Great news. The only thing that was stopping me from switching 100% was the fact that pretty much anything you want to play (with the notable exception of World of Warcraft) was only available on a PC. Hell, I was thinking I’d have to buy one just to play games on. Life just got a […]

  • Vaginas are lethal! They have teeth and they bite people!

    Mr Daydream, by Roger Hargreaves=“Ah, my rod reverer!” brags gay dream.

  • Pretty Pictures

    It’s just possible that someone other than me may be interested in this. It’s a breakdown of UK primetime TV by genre. Data is from the Independent on Sunday TV guide, sampled as of the week 2-8 April 2006. I’ve defined primetime as 7-10pm Sunday to Saturday and have assigned my own genres as there […]

  • Ninjas and lasers and gold

    Badger.Footie.Potter.

  • A for Effort

    BBC4 recently aired a new version of “A for Andromeda”, originally shown as seven 45-minute episodes back in 1961. Not much of the original series survives, so as with their recent production of “The Quatermass Experiment” the BBC has updated and re-made the production. Sadly, “A for Andromeda” wasn’t transmitted live. One of the most […]

  • A New World

    David E Kelley (he of Boston Legal and The Practice – oh, and some show that was inexplicably popular for a couple of years in the late 90s) has signed on to showrun the US remake of Life On Mars. I think it’s a great choice. Quirky humour and great drama in the same package. […]