http://cowfish.org.uk/blog Another bearded man on the internet Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:49:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I went on holiday the other week, as is (not) often my wont, and spent the time being remarkably relaxed in the mobile phone signal free idyll of Aviemore in sunny snowy Scotland. We got a lot of snow shortly after arriving, replenishing that already there, and I even had ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/03/01/the-cold-north/ Daisy: In the end, our relationship was just like a sandwich toaster. You know, you just forget you've got one. And it just sits there on the top of the cupboard collecting a layer of greasy fudge. And even if you do see it you just assume it's broken, you ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/02/02/breville/ I like scotch eggs. From the gourmet end of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society's warm ham hock scotch egg with picalilli to a Ginsters scotch egg bar, I love the entire range of pig wrapped chicken precursor. At the end of last year I saw that the Qype folks (ta ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/01/31/scotch-eggs-and-latex-gloves-at-the-coach-and-horses/ The iPad announcement has come and there wasn't much to surprise out at the front - 10"ish screen, running iPhone OS, new look and feel for a bunch of apps... Basically a big iPod Touch/iPhone with optional 3G. It's a very shiny thing but I suspect that I won't get ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/01/27/ipad-meh-ibook-ooh/ As a) I like talking about myself and b) Kelsie and/or Mel over at Travels with my Fork sorted me some linkage I thought I'd put something here about what I've been writing over on my booze blog. Anyways, recent things: A quick review of Brewdog Harcore IPA My writeup of the Salt Bar/Talisker ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/01/27/boozes-elsewhere/ I have become scared. There is now preamble, bear with me. I noticed today on macrumors.com, a site that I have become increasingly obsessed with as I have become addicted to the sweet drops that drip from Apple's still milky udder, that the CEO of McGraw-Hill had broken a piece of ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/01/27/we-are-but-unto-ants/ Shift Run Stop is a rather excellent podcast who don't talk about games as much as their C64 oriented title might suggest. I have no problem with this other than that they got the name before I thought of it. It is a very good name. Anyways, they've been putting ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/01/25/i-was-a-boring-child/ I went to Paperchase today and bought myself a nice big sheet of white card. I was given approving looks by the various customers (I suspect that they don't get that many Metallica hat wearing bearded men trying to delicately manoeuvre a large piece of card around while pleading with ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/01/24/in-the-ghettooooo/ I might claim that this post is more for me to mark what I've been doing recently, but I suspect it'd be a lie and I'm merely an attention seeker with this being another demonstration of my 'condition'. I MUST BE LOVED! Ahem. I recently tried my hand at editing the OneMoreGo ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/01/23/what-i-been-doing/ I'm not sure if I've mentioned it on here before, but I have a strange amount of respect for David Icke. Now, don't mistake respect for belief in any of the crazier end of what he says (there's a lot of 'just, like, be nice to everyone and stuff' in ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/01/20/the-queen-ate-my-hamster/