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I went out for a wander with my camera for the first time in a month yesterday, on a wander with the London Photobloggers up the grand union canal from Brentford. I put up a few more piccies over on flickr. The other attendees were Lorissa, Ben, Tom, Stuart and Scott, who all run rather excellent [...]

It has often been fashionable to be rude about films that have been adapted from computer games, and in ththese days, with the seeming limit on the amount of original ideas that can be in circulation at any one time, games are fair game for the easy movie option. From out of this murky mass [...]

A while back I pointed out the potential awesomeness of a toast printer, but it seemed that dream item was not going to go into production. However, it seems some enterprising people are jumping on the interesting toast bandwagon all the same:

However I do not need any more tat in my house, especially as I [...]

So, I finished Dead Space. I’ve been talking it up for a while and now that it’s done I can happily say that it was good. Yahtzee brings up some good points in his as usual bile filled rant, but I enjoyed it almost from beginning to end.

Quick synopsis is that it’s Event Horizon. Slightly [...]

If you want to play with phreadz, which is lovely and run by the lovely Kosso who does it all of it himself, then you should be able to get a beta (closed beetroot era, to be exact) login via the politics channel.
I seem to have agreed this evening to look into sorting out video [...]

So, I continue my life without papery books. I’ve had my Sony Reader for a few weeks now, and it is still lovely. Since my day one purchase of Anathem and upload of a bunch of classics, I’ve also grabbed Peter Hamilton’s Temporal Void, a pile of Tor short stories, a couple from Bookkake’s collection, Neil [...]

It might have escaped a few of you that today is election day in the USA. You might have noticed a little bit of the media coverage surrounding it and probably even have your own opinion. However, I say to you NAY! you have no opinion unless you have learned of the history of the [...]

Flexing my “crap at taking holiday leaves me with a bunch of days left at the end of the year” muscles, I took off a couple of days earlier this week to immerse myself in the throbbing underbelly of cinema that is the London Film Festival. Well, by that I actually mean that I went [...]