Alphabetically, The Smiths – A Game

by | Jun 20, 2011 | zeitgeist

My sharp eyed reader will know that I provide an excellent chauffeur service for @stuartamdouglas for our commute to work. This is usually an entertaining jaunt with hilarity worthy of a wider audience*. Over the last week or so we have taken to entertainment to a...

My Big Fat Lovely MP3 Player

by | Jun 5, 2011 | Technology

When people look at my Archos 504 these days, it usually gets the same reaction “What on earth is that thing?”. To which I reply “It’s my MP3 player”. At which point they are even more bemused “…but, but… it’s,...

The Internet and External Validation Addiction

by | May 30, 2011 | Technology

Back in the early 90’s there was much to celebrate. Aside from being thin and having hair, the TV was full of things to keep any self-respecting pseudo-intellectual happy. The ultra-cool obviously watched Twin Peaks. Still a classic and hasn’t aged at all....

I Used To Be The Internet

by | May 21, 2011 | zeitgeist

Lady Gaga just came on TV. My lovely lady wife said “I don’t even know her real name”. Obviously, iPad in hand, I had the answer in a gaggle of picoseconds. And then the sagely question was asked by the beautiful one across the room from me...

Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de Londres

by | Apr 27, 2011 | Photography, travel

Twas a lovely Easter Sunday in London. Here are a few photos from my meandrings… Firstly, onto Hampstead Heath where people were out enjoying the sun and generally chilling. And reading newspapers on top of Parliament Hill. And parking their Chevy Impalas…...