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Ronnie strikes again
The gorgeous, talented (he says) Ronnie Brown is revamping the blog design, and I reckon it’s great – but right this second there’s a positioning issue that means the design is perfect on Windows and a wee bit off on the Mac. It’ll be sorted asap.
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Vacuum cleaners suck, but some suck more than others
Not strictly a technology post, I know, but hey! The world needs more vacuum cleaner buying advice! I’ve got a thing about vacuum cleaners – not in a Nicky Wire “Hoover obsession” kind of way, but in a “I’ve got a black dog, light carpets, doing the stairs is my job and it makes me…
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Eels: where’s the bass?
We went to see Eels in Glasgow last night, and while the gig itself was great there were two big problems for me. The first was the “support”, and the second was the giant bass-shaped hole in the loud stuff. Support first. Like any self-respecting Eels fan I watched the BBC documentary “Parallel Worlds, Parallel…
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I am not a freeloading backpacker, says freeloading backpacker
A nice story in The Times: Mark Boyle was a man with a dream. He was so convinced that a world without the evils of money is possible that he set out to walk from Britain to India without spending a penny in order to prove it. As the report notes: The former head of…
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It’s time for a crackdown on binge drinking… doctors
I’m sure this will be all over blogland, but I’m posting it anyway because it made me laugh. The BMA, which condemned 24-hour drinking last week and called for higher taxes on alcohol, faces accusations of hypocrisy after complaints of drunken antics at its central London headquarters. It has emerged that while blaming everyone else…
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E from Eels writes a letter to The Queen
Her Majesty The Queen Buckingham Palace London SW1A 1AA January 31st 2008 Your Majesty, My name is Mark Oliver Everett. My friends call me “E”. I am the singer in an American rock band called Eels. We will be playing a show at your Royal Festival Hall on the evening of February 25th and I…
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The Martian Death Flu survival kit
Martian Death Flu – or, as it’s known to women, “the cold” – is a rubbish thing to have, especially when you work in a creative job: you’re ill enough that your brain turns to cheese, preventing you from doing any work, but you’re not ill enough to get any sympathy whatsoever. So here’s what…
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The rules: crime novel covers
When you’re bouncing a baby around your mind tends to wander, and today was no exception: I found myself staring at the bookcase, which contains far too many crime novels, decoding the visual grammar of the cover designs. I don’t know if there are similar rules to other genres, but there’s definitely a set of…
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Panasodding camcorders
If you’re thinking about getting a cheap camcorder and you’re using Leopard, beware: I’m having huge problems with my El Cheapo Panasonic camera. It uses Mini DVD, which means I can’t play the discs in my Macs (they’re all slot-loading drives), so I need to connect it via USB. Unfortunately Leopard doesn’t like Panasonic’s files…
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Supermarkets are doing great deals on HD-DVD players
Don’t buy one. HD-DVD is deader than a particularly dead dodo.