Category: Misc

Very sad news about Christopher Reeve today. Only last week, I dug out my old Superman bubble gum cards from the first film. That series was nearly as popular as Star Wars with my brother and I when we were younger. And I still struggle to recall what the fatal flaw with the plan that…

This months issue of Personal Computer World magazine has a copy of Windows XP SP2 attached to it – not unlike most of the other magazines this month. But more interesting to me is the inclusion of a four page advertisement that lets users know what the service pack includes. I say “advertisement”, but in…

I know that everyone and their mum had blogged this, but I love this pair of stories about the mysterious underground cinema recently found in Paris. What a shame that London doesn’t have the same kind of catacombs and tunnels. If anyone fancies starting a similar cinema in London, preferably not directly in a sewer,…

I’ve got a bit of a problem with comment spam at the moment. MT Blacklist works fine, but the problem is that when I get a comment, an email is fired off to me with the details of the comment, along with an automatic link to excise anything I don’t want. That means that on…

It seems to me that the hotel trade is awfully careless – they keep over-ordering their linen and duvet supplies. Twice in the past month, an email has gone around our building at work offering cheap duvets, pillows and sheets. The reason given is always over-ordering, but given the frequency of it, anyone would think…

Well, it may have taken me until the following Friday to note it, but I spent the whole of last weekend in Brighton enjoying the sun, making a video, and checking out venues for our company weekend away. Anyway, the video’s here for a limited-ish time (terrible quality – will try and get a better…

The exhibition has only been open for months, yet it’s only tonight that I finally made it to the Hopper exhibition at Tate Modern, and it closes on Sunday Outside Blackfriars station I overtook someone who looked suspiciously like TV’s Kate Humble (Gia’s bête noir) as I headed towards the Millennium Bridge. Of course I…

I think it was watching Caught on a Train which made me realise that I should relate the following which happened earlier this week. I’d been working reasonably late, and admit that I popped into the pub for a couple of drinks after work. This is the new look Midas Touch which has been refashioned…

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If you’ve not been to London in a long while (or at all), you might not know that Carnaby Street has changed beyond all recongnition in recent years. Gone are all the sleazy shops selling cheap and cheerful stuff, and in their place are brace of shops that wouldn’t look out of place on Neal…

I see Carl Hiaasen has a new book out… Alex Cox may have stopped his diary, but he wrote a piece in The Guardian about the depths of US cinema… The Avengers is getting another release on DVD in the UK (well I care!)… SUVs are trucks and are banned from many streets in California!

There’s a new shop on Carnaby Street that’s staffing up at the moment that is calling itself “a new concept in mens’ retailing”. I think they mean that they’re “a new menswear shop”. Unless, that is, that they’re moving away from the traditional “pay the price on the price-tag” model that shops have traditionally adopted.…