Author: Carrie

  • This old mouse

    As a former NME reader, I love bad puns in headlines – so the more song titles or appalling plays on words I can get into a headline, the happier I am (and the more obvious and groan-inducing, the better). So today a news piece was just begging for either “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”,…

  • The amusingly named Mazda

    I’ve been obsessed with the Mazda Bongo Friendee for ages, because I think it’s the best car name ever – and today I saw one. In real life! It’s a piece of crap, of course, but it’s got a great name. Although I suspect it won’t help you pull. “Hey, why don’t we take a…

  • Is The Sun pockling its page views?

    I meant to blog about this ages ago, and now I’ve forgotten where I first saw it mentioned. Never mind: is The Sun pockling its page views? Yes. Is it doing it deliberately? Don’t know, but it’s really annoying: when you click a headline on the front page, it takes you to the appropriate section…

  • My Wi-Fi is a menace

    No, not because it’s frying my brain or making my testicles grow to mammoth proportions; it’s just rubbish. I’m typing this on a laptop that’s about 20 feet away from my wireless router (the router’s upstairs in the office, I’m downstairs on the sofa), and after about 20 attempts at turning airport off and on…

  • In the war on booze, let’s attack Luxembourg

    An interesting graphic in The Economist shows different countries’ average alcohol consumption – and we’re not at the top of the list. No, it seems Luxembourg is the land of the piss-heads, and we’ve fallen behind Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Moldova and the Czech Republic. None of these countries, as far as I’m aware, has the…

  • Expecting too much from Apple

    Financiers and fanboys alike seemed to find this year’s WWDC keynote rather disappointing, and I’ve written a piece over at Tech.co.uk about their reaction. Do we expect too much from Apple? I think so. …Steve Jobs failed to announce new Macs, a teleport or a giant robot army. The Mac massive wanted something new and…

  • Da (gay) bomb

    Brilliant: Newly released documents have shown that the US military was considering the development of a chemical weapon to turn enemy soldiers gay. Edward Hammond, of Berkeley’s Sunshine Project, used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force’s Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio and passed it to…

  • Ow

    Sorry if anyone’s waiting on emails, really exciting blog posts etc – a slipped disc means I can’t spend much time in front of the computer, so I’m spending most of my time lying on the floor feeling sorry for myself. And munching drugs, of course.

  • A little business idea

    The Scottish Executive’s war on booze is stepping up, with talk of price controls, making booze harder to get and, if doctors have their way, raising the legal age to buy booze in shops (but not pubs) from 18 to 21. Given that I have an estate car and England’s only an hour or two…

  • Halo 2 PC. Why?

    Jim Rossignol reviews the PC port of Halo 2, and he isn’t impressed. Halo 2 is a lazy port of a less-than-perfect sequel to an FPS that was pretty good on a console and only average on a PC. As he points out, what’s particularly bizarre is the fact it’s a Vista-only release, so you…