Anyone within earshot of my tiny Bath flat will have heard many teary-eyed cries of 'gawd bless broadband' over the past week and a half. Not just because of the time (and possibly brain cell) sucking brilliance of the snooker World Championship, but...
Wednesday April 26, 2006
Snooker laggy nuts are me
Anyone within earshot of my tiny Bath flat will have heard many teary-eyed cries of 'gawd bless broadband' over the past week and a half. Not just because of the time (and possibly brain cell) sucking brilliance of the snooker World Championship, but...
The perils of buying bootleg Transformers
What's wrong with this picture?
The pink nozzle-arm is bad enough, but then you spot the trigger. Oh god, the trigger. "Ribbed for Unit 2480's pleasure..." It's there ostensibly because the robot turns into a space pistol, but Christ, how did someone not spot this before it started rolling out of Taiwanese factories?
Incidentally, the official (fairly hard to find) version of this Transformer, Shockwave, is a nifty all-over metallic purple and sports a tasteful plate-like trigger rather than this phallic horror. If anyone has a proper one, please send it to me and I'll love you forever.
Oh forgive me
I'm going to hate myself for saying this, but I quite like Internet Explorer 7. In much the same way one grudgingly admits it finally got Media Center right, it looks like Microsoft is on the right track with the next iteration of its browser. I didn't really...
Seperated at Birth
Help settle an argument that has been raging since I arrived at PCF towers, please. Barney Calhoun, supporting act in Half Life 2, and David Mitchell, who plays Mark Corrigan in the faith-renewing black comedy Peep Show are extremely similar, are they not? Should you have the audacity to disagree, here is the damning evidence.
David Mitchell Barney Calhoun
Scarey Shrinks!
Poor Carey fell down a rabbit hole while searching for a preview code CD under his desk, when he fell out again he'd shrunk in size by one fifth! He's now running around the office squeakily shouting 'Drink Me! Drink Me!' and laughing hysterically.
On...
