Author: Carrie

Then why not get a ball hammer and wallop every single body panel until there’s not a square centimetre of undamaged car left? That way, when you come out of Tesco and it’s been pranged again, you won’t be annoyed – because you did it first! (Big scratch from some supermarket arse this morning, huge…

Is brilliant. Particularly the bit where the baddies attempt to download the contents of every single database in the whole wide world onto a laptop. You fools! You’d need two laptops for that! It is good, though, in a big dumb fun kind of way. Although as soon as you notice the product placement (Alienware,…

The Glasgow Airport attack has thrust two men into the media spotlight: Bilal Abdulla, a doctor at Paisley’s RA hospital and (apparently) one of the two would-be bombers, and John Smeaton, the man who interrupted his cigarette break to punch said bombers. Which means that in Scotland, smokers are protecting the public from doctors. Heh…

The reaction to the bungled attack on Glasgow Airport has been interesting, and by “interesting” I mean “depressing”. Online the hardcore nationalists are blaming the English, others are blaming Asians (all of them, from what I can see) and a few others are suggesting it’s a false flag operation by the government to keep the…

Social networking site Facebook is the latest Next Big Thing, it seems, with various breathless stories about it in the papers. It seems like a kind of grown-up MySpace, and while I’m not sure whether it’s of any actual benefit (I’m on loads of these things and tend to stop logging in after the novelty…

Well, not quite. But I’ve noticed a curious phenomenon. As I’ve mentioned endlessly, my back problems returned with a vengeance in April: a slipped disc or discs resulting in pretty much constant sciatic pain in my leg and foot. Everything I do hurts: sitting at the computer, sitting downstairs with the laptop, watching TV, driving…