Author: Gary

More from the war on smoking: according to Scotland on Sunday, the Scottish Executive wants to ban 10-packs of cigarettes. Inevitably, it’s to protect the kiddies. One source on the group said: “These packs of 10 are a particular problem because they are, obviously, cheaper than packs of 20 and they can afford them more…

I’ve been meaning to get a digital radio for ages, and I’ve finally bit the bullet and bought a bottom-of-the-range Roberts radio. Mind you, what’s bottom of the range for Roberts is still streets ahead of other firms’ best products, and despite the lack of features such as tone controls and other goodies, it’s a…

If you’re a sad NYPD Blue obsessive like me, there’s lots of good news: Season 3 is out on DVD right now, season 4’s due (according to Amazon) at the end of June, and Channel 4 is finally airing the final three seasons. According to Digital Spy: Channel 4 will air the final three seasons…

Delivery drivers! When delivering a priority package to a residential address during normal working hours, TRY RINGING THE BLOODY DOORBELL. This may save you having to write “you’re not in, nah nah nah” on a bit of cardboard and returning to the same address with the same package at the same time tomorrow.

Yeah, I’m moaning again about Black, the first person shooter that’s clearly been designed by sadists. I’m on the level where my primary objective is to cross Graznei Bridge, which to date I think I’ve successfully done about three and a half billion sodding times. But when I finally get across the bridge, something happens.…

When The Onion’s good, it’s very good (click for bigger): [Via Publishing 2.0]

There’s an interesting post at Publishing 2.0 about the business models surrounding Web 2.0 and in particular, the hype over user-generated content. This reminds me of a comment that another of my favorite cynics, Seth Finklestein, deposited on my post about “user-generated content”: For “User-generated content”, I’m partial to the term “Unpaid freelancers”. The latter…

My wife was rudely awoken at 4am this morning as, stark bollock naked, I wrenched a very large and very heavy mirror from the wall. She asked what I was doing and I apparently answered, in a very pissed-off manner, “I’m taking this off the wall”. Mirror removed and two large holes in the plasterwork…

Mike Giggler is Private Eye’s fictitious letter writer, who upholds the great British tradition* of writing funny letters to newspapers. He would approve of this gem from Mark Bartlett, who wrote to today’s Guardian about a protective case for transporting bananas: I hope the genius behind the Banana Guard (April 8) is feverishly at work…

The latest iPod firmware update introduces a volume limiter which, as far as I can tell, you can’t disable from the menus or from iTunes. It’s to protect your hearing, but after 15-odd years of playing in a rock band my ears are knackered anyway and a capped iPod is far too quiet (especially if…