Apr
5
Rediscovered track of the month: April ’13
April 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Heaven 17 This is Mine
Mar
21
Pirate: What’s in a Word
March 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Usually when celebrities jump onto a cause it’s the A-lister who ends up putting his foot in it so it’s something of a relief to see Harrison Ford sounding platitudes about how getting clean drinking water running in distant “stressed” lands can lead to a lack of Jihadi attacks against the USA — an argument […]
Mar
5
Rediscovered track of the month: Mar ’13
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Leonard Cohen’s First We Take Manhattan
Mar
5
Favela No More
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
It is with a sense of weary resignation that I learn why the ‘Favela’ level has been removed from the online game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It happened to Salman Rushdie and countless thousands of others so I suppose it was only a matter of time before religious grievance-mongering impacted on me (note […]
Feb
17
A Few Months With Windows 8
February 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Computerworld have an interesting feature today in which some prominent tech authors voice their opinions on Windows 8. A majority of the 14 quoted say they spend all their time on the desktop and never touch the Metro interface which is what greets you on the standard Win 8 start screen. While reading I suddenly […]
Feb
13
Drive Thru No More
February 13, 2013 | 1 Comment
Sad news folks, the Drive Thru surf films are over. No more to come. I got this from Sybil at Poor Specimen just today: Hi Paul,They are officially finished! Thank you for your blog post! Sybil Such a shame they never managed a UK Drive Thru. If you’re interested in my take on these wonderful […]
Jan
26
Cameron in Europe: en route to not much changing at all . . .
January 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Former Newshour presenter extraordinaire Robin Lustig’s blog has a new lease of life now he is unchained from the BBC objectivity police . . . lustigletter.blogspot.co.uk. I recommend you bookmark it.
Dec
6
The New Myspace — first glance
December 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The Myspace relaunch is coming soon . . sometime next year for the Gen Pop (I cannot believe I just mimicked Arthur Kade). I received an invite to the BETA site tonight so this is my instant reaction . . a more considered analysis will come later. If the involvement of Justin Timberlake in the […]