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Crikey, it’s the same bloke!

So with summer coming on, but beer being quite so expensive considering my epic consumption of alcohol, I thought I’d head out to the shed and exhume the old home brew kit that served me well in my poorest, unemployed days. First task was to see if I could clean out all the empty [...]

Been sucked into management stuff a bit more than I would like lately. It’s great in some ways to be taking control of what I’m doing, but in other ways I feel, well, kinda dirty. As a geek, obviously you can’t object to the concept of jargon, but increasingly management jargon has been [...]

Elite was a game we used to have on our Commodore 64. It was apparently the first game ever to have 3 real dimensions – you pilot a spacecraft and battle in real space. Albeit with outlines, but anyway. Later PC versions upgraded the graphics and story parts, but basically it is [...]

This movie was pretty cool, it was sort of a lighter version of Almost Famous in feel but not plot. Global Heresy is a band, the Next Big Thing(TM) but the founding member {the bass player) drowned in a river a while ago. With the organisation of the record company (very Arthur Daly blokes) he [...]

OK I saw this the day it came out, but I wanted to have a few watches to be sure what I felt. Never got around to it really.
Look it’s a really long book, if you are a total pedant, you’ll complain about the absence of Tom Bombadil and other twee stuff. I would [...]

We were talking on the Discworld list about people who have suddenly dropped off the list without warning, and who suddenly cease to answer emails. I worry that people I care about have committed suicide, had some life crisis and need support, or died horribly or whatever. With most of your friends you have [...]

Pretty much every comic strip with kids in it makes the joke about a kid saying somebody told them “these are the best years of your life” and how sad it must be if this is as good as it gets cos childhood really isn’t all that.
But for pure and simple enjoyment, you really can’t [...]

So basically all the things that were great about metal are in short supply these days. In the 80’s and early 90’s, metal was scary. Even back in Black Sabbath era it combined dark and spooky riffs with thought provoking lyrics, and we all know the masses don’t like to have their thoughts provoked. [...]