Author: Carrie

  • We need new words

    The late Douglas Adams co-wrote a superb book, The Meaning of Liff, which attempted to find new words to describe universal experiences. In these net-everywhere days, we probably need to update it to describe situations such as these: * The moment when, one second after sending a superbly bitchy email, you realise you’ve sent it…

  • Mick Hucknall is talking out of his fat ginger arse

    He’s in the Guardian, wibbling about copyright. He says “Copyright is not a monopoly restricting the free flow of ideas”; presumably he’s a different Mick Hucknall to the one who moaned back in 2000 that his major label deal meant the record company, not Simply Red, owned the copyright for the band’s master tapes. Here’s…

  • The Bigmouth tech awards 2006

    Some magazines have done it already and others are waiting for their versions to come back from the printers: yep, it’s the inevitable “best of” stuff that fills pages at this time every year. I thought I’d do my own version, largely ’cause I’m bored. Heh. Game of the year – Gears of War It’s…

  • Oh shit, not again

    Those of you who’ve been hanging around these parts for a while will know of the Big Back Saga, where I slipped two discs, spent months in agony (even though I was off my face on horse tranquilisers) and ended up paying for very expensive surgery in order to get my life back. What a…

  • Gears of War “quite successful”

    1 million copies sold in two weeks. Bloody hell.

  • How Scottish politics works

    Labour MSP Karen Whitefield wants the Scottish Executive to pass legislation that would make it illegal for big shops to open on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day in order to “protect workers”. There are a few minor issues with that, though: * 99.9% of big shops don’t actually open on Christmas Day and New…

  • Anti-spam

    Further to the comment spam post a few days ago, the level of junk’s got increasingly silly (cleared lots of spam last night, another 50-odd waiting for me this morning). So I’ve added Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam system, which seems to be one of the more elegant anti-spam efforts. It shouldn’t make a difference if you’re…

  • YouTwats

    One of the things I really don’t like about myself is the way that really big bad stuff – poverty, war, cheery things like that – doesn’t really get under my skin, because it’s too much to take in. Unfunny twats on YouTube, on the other hand, make me so angry I can’t see. I’m…

  • A blatant plug: independent Saab specialist in Glasgow

    I’m quick to moan, so to redress the balance I’ll plug a firm that’s great. If you’ve got a Saab in Central Scotland and you’re not made of money, check out Schoneville Saab in Kilbirnie Place, Tradeston. They’re Saab specialists – the boss, Ken Schoneville, used to be a big cheese at the main dealer…

  • You can’t get shitter than a Kwik-Fit fitter

    Um, if you think your car’s steering alignment is out, don’t go to Kwik-Fit. Or at least, don’t go to the one in Milngavie. I put the Saab in there a few weeks back to get the wheels balanced, and prepared myself for the moment when the fitter magically discovers that I need all kinds…