Jono's post about taxi cabs and close calls with death reminded me of how little hassle I've usually had with cab drivers. I usually chat away to cabbies, and tip pretty generously on most occasions, but one guy in San Francisco took the biscuit, and didn't get tipped. Or chatted to, as I was giving […]
So, I finally finished Grand Theft Auto IV, nearly 4 months after buying it. Well, I thought I had. When the final credits had finished rolling by, I got some achievements for being awesome enough to finish the game ... and then I was back in Liberty City. Not at the start again, but where […]
So two things i've been looking forward to for a long time are going to see The Dark Knight and finally getting to see a movie at the IMAX cinema out at the Glasgow Science Centre . It's a crying shame that the actual experience of going to watch the movie didn't match up to […]
As someone said on IRC this morning: "the FSF appear to have come up with the perfect plan for how to look like a bunch of annoying, smart-arse tossers ". Has the Free Software Foundation gone nuts? Update 13:30: I don't seem to be alone on this: popey , mgdm , ZDNet , Slashdot . […]
Google Earth has had 3D building views for a while, but I didn't realise how good the quality of the newer photorealistic buildings were until I decided to recreate one of my favourite skyline shots using Google Earth. At the thumbnail level, it's hard to tell which is which. Gobsmackingly impressive stuff.
I've just finished watching both Friday night's Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi — the mid-season finale "Revelations", the last episode until the start of 2009 — and Saturday night's Doctor Who on BBC One — "Midnight", another mid-season episode, but with more to come from next week onwards. The current productions of Doctor Who suffer […]
I've decided to take a leaf out of Jemima 's book, and rip and sell all my music CDs . Why? Well, I have the following: a shitload of CDs a shitload of hard disk space a desire not to have my lounge cluttered with CDs any more, and an impetus to make a wee […]
Talk Like Yoda Day , it is. Talk like Yoda, you must.
First, Rangers get beaten in the UEFA Cup final , then a core of arsehole Rangers fans decide to rampage across Manchester's city centre , and now news that Celtic legend Tommy Burns has died . These are dark days for Scottish football.