My 2007
On first thought, I’d say that 2007 was fairly uneventful. My past few months have consisted of me being ill and feeling like I’ve done very little other than try and get healthy again… Then, when I properly think about it, I realise that the whole year has been MENTAL! January Me and Charlie Brooker [...]
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Like probably every single American my age, ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas‘ was not only the best Peanuts show, but the best Christmas show as well. And that’s saying something when there was also Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer on every year as well. Well, just this morning Brian phoned whilst he was out looking for [...]
Chris De Burgh In ‘Random News Story’
This morning Brian and I woke up and read BBC News. One of the first stories we noticed was De Burgh ‘will play gig in Iran’: Lady In Red star Chris De Burgh will be the first Western artist to play a concert in Iran since the country’s 1979 revolution, according to reports. Brian said, [...]
Ageing, the World Service and 70s Cops
Phew! Once again I’ve been running on adrenaline for the past few weeks. No good. No good at all. After I got over about 6 weeks of illness earlier this autumn, I’m once again on the verge of illness – some annoying flu-thing. Grrrrr. I’ve been up to some interesting things, including working on a [...]
Yes. I Am Still Alive.
This is short and sweet. I’ve been very busy lately, mainly with stuff that I can’t really write about… and the stuff I *can* write about is so tedious that it’s not worth the effort. Luckily, I’ve just joined Twitter for that kinda stuff. Heh. I must point out that QR Code is featured in [...]
CERN Photos
Some new photos from CERN taken whilst doing the CERN Podcast. These are some lovely photos from the computer centre, mainly from the ‘computer graveyard’. Click for bigger versions at Flickr where you can see more photos.
Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery
Via CERN Podcast… Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery are well-known to British comedy fans. Also known by his stagenames of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, Simon Munnery is a comedy writer and experimental standup comedian.The Observer newspaper called Simon, ‘One of the most original and talented comedians in the country’. He’s [...]
Jesus Elvis Peanut Butter and Banana
We all remember this video of some religious numpty claiming that bananas were made by God specifically for humans… He thinks a banana disproves evolution cos we can open it fairly easily. Now some other ignorant shit tries to use a jar of peanut butter to disprove evolution. But here is where it starts to [...]
Brian and Gia on the Radio
Brian and I have been on the radio this week. Brian was on The Music Group on Radio 4 today. The other guests with him were Caitlin Moran and Craig Brown. (about 30 minutes long) [audio:music_group.mp3] I was on Digital Planet on the World Service, talking about QR Codes. Bill Thompson was on briefly, too, [...]
More Fundies
I’m getting a bit tired of the so-called ‘Environmentalists’. They’ve become blinkered, dogmatic and mindless. Somewhere along the way they got confused and are now no different to me than the people who blow themselves up in the name of religion. Enviro-Fundamentalists. Like all Fundamentalists, the Enviro-Fundies seem to want to send us back to [...]
Tory MP Steals Bandwidth Shock
I started following this yesterday, assuming that it would be very short-lived albeit hilarious… But it’s still happening, so figure I should let you know about it. A while ago a guy decided to test the macro function on his new camera by taking an extreme close-up of a pound coin. (click for larger) Fine. [...]
