My ADSL connection is currently tres latent due to some Cisco badness on BT's part . If you're trying to call me on Skype or my VoIP number, it'll either sound like I'm the Moon, or it won't connect. You may also find my site a tad slow too until it's sorted out. Still, in […]
Got a letter through from my local council , telling me a local play area — swings, slides, other public-body approved child death traps — has "been put forward as a site for environmental improvement". The real genius part of it is this: Please refer to the enclosed plan for details of the proposed scheme. […]
Tomorrow is, as always, Talk Like a Pirate Day . It's a day when everyone should talk like a pirate. There's no real reason behind it, other than it's fun. However, I'd like to nominate May 21st as Talk Like Yoda Day . Why May 21st? It's the date in 1980 when The Empire Strikes […]
Coupla podcast-tastic things happening, both of which have sweary bits. Woo. First, myself and some of the LugRadio IRC/forum regulars started up hashlugradio , to discuss topics brought up in episodes of LugRadio, but also brought up by the community members. We cranked out a first test episode and released it last week — it's […]
Well, looks like one of ThinkGeek's excellent 2003 April Fools — the George Foreman USB iGrill — is still wreaking havoc amongst the gadget blogging community. Not only did Wired's Gear Factor ( cached copy ) pick up this from mobilemag.com ( cached copy ) as though new — Wired, newsflash, it's over three years […]
Die Hard 2: Die Harder was on itv2 last night, so this was a nice bit of serendipity — Kevin Smith has published the comp artwork for the cover of the forthcoming An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder DVD: He's never looked cooler†. Absolute genius, can't wait. † ... well, as cool as […]
I got pinged with a friends list request last night on MSN Messenger (although I use Gaim to connect to the network instead of Microsoft's crappy ad-laden client) from someone I added years ago. I hadn't heard from them for a while and I think I'd deleted them since Gaim reported I wasn't on their […]
Sorry, it wasn't Natalie Portman being photographed topless on a beach by paparazzi, or being cast in V for Vendetta, or shaving her head, but this segment from a recent Saturday Night Live which makes me think "hey, Natalie Portman, not a kid anymore" ... Cheers to NBC for letting a kosher version finally become […]