I can’t remember why, but I recently came across some videos on YouTube that purported to be Red Dwarf the Movie trailers. Three turned out to be utter fakes, which seemed a little pointless, and one was actually someone’s home made CGI effort. Anyway, whilst there, I found the American pilots produced, which I had [...]

If you find yourself on the lookout for tactical gear, then LA Police Gear’s web site might be just what you need. My first reaction upon encountering the term was that only law enforcement agencies would be interested, however, many of them (I liked the Jimi wallet particularly) seemed like practical solutions to those who [...]

The Academy of Medical Sciences has issued a warning that the academic organizations may soon need to start considering the use of drug testing, to ensure that some pupils are not abusing prescription drugs in an attempt to improve their memory. Although ten or fifteen years ago this would have sounded more like an episode [...]

The BBC have a story on a parrot in Japan that went missing. Luckily, it is an African Grey Parrot, which are apparently renowned for their comparative intelligence and ability to learn multiple phrases.
Its owner had taught the bird (Yosuke) to recite the name and address of where they lived (amongst other party pieces, like [...]

I just spoke with Alex online, and she informed she has a new piercing
No pictures just yet, but is apparently a lip ring, not one of those chavvy (Marilyn) Monroe studs, thankfully. Her multiple ear rings were part of the inspiration for my own, back when I was at school. Anyway, hopefully the piercer [...]

No, not a reference to the seminal track by Melle Mel and The Furious Five (not Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel, as often quoted - this was a marketing ploy by the record label, who listed ‘Grandmaster’ as a track artist), nor Duran Duran’s version of said song. No, I’m happy to report that Astana [...]

Did you know that an anagram of ‘Poorest Genre’ is progesterone? Well I didn’t, until I went to an anagram server (just google ‘Anagram’ and click on the first result), and entered the term. Why did I do that? Because I was assigned a job to write a blog post with the word progesterone in [...]

Long term readers/’real life’ friends will remember that Irina and I used to live in a cottage out in Bourton on the Water, a real picture postcard village in the Cotswolds. At the time, there was no chance of getting ADSL at all, which led to us having two phone lines. One was for normal [...]

If you are a baseball fan, then you probably already know that the Cubs from Chicago travel to Houston soon to play against the Astros again. Followers of the Cubs’ recent games will be hoping that pitcher Chris Sampson manages to regain earlier form; his recent efforts have hardly been outstanding, and some are beginning [...]

The brilliant UK govt. has released information on plans to create a huge database of phone calls and e-mails based in Britain. Quite aside from the civil liberties/govt. intelligence agencies powers angles, the fact that there have been multiple incidents involving lack of data security within the last year have led to many people being [...]

A little over a year ago an online jewellery store sent me an e-mail, asking if I would be interested in placing a permanent text link on my site for them. I had a look through their range, and saw some nice designer jewelry. Given that their items obviously cost them less than they were [...]

This is definitely one of those cases where it is difficult to tell whether unfolding events are heading towards a better crime-free world, or simply Big Brother worming its way even further into our everyday, law-abiding lives… de Telegraaf (a Dutch newspaper) originally reported this issue, where the police will have access to live video [...]

The electronic gaming industry has evolved from a one time simple affair, with rudimentary computing power limiting the games to Ping Golf, and Space Invaders. Since the 70s, processing power, memory limits and graphics capabilities have all sky rocketed, leading to ultra realistic environments. As an example, I was reading a forum the other day [...]

Just in case you have not come across this well publicized report already, head on over to the BBC’s article detailing how an Australian man was caught by the police and subsequently fined for having alcohol in the car. No, not some USA-like charge of having an open container in a moving vehicle, this driver [...]

A while ago, one of the parts of our comfy computer desk chair broke. It is apparently possible to simple order the replacement part, and have it refitted. However, as the leather gets quite hot in the summer, and our cats love clawing it, we may just look around the local furniture stores, and see [...]