If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The premise behind Atari’s new game, Act of War, is that at some point in the future rising fuel prices have kicked off civil disobedience, which has allowed terrorists (TM) to take advantage of the insecurity and attack the […]

As we already close in on the end of the second month of the year, I’ve just finished my fifth and sixth books of 2005. Something of a ready frenzy has come over me this year. I don’t know why. Or how. I suspect things are about to slow down, though, as I’ve just started […]

The Guardian reckons Hunter S Thompson said it:

The Independent, on the other hand, thinks it was Nixon who was doing the talking:

The BBC agrees with the Guardian, and reckons that contrary to what the Independent seems to believe it was Thompson who was slagging off Nixon:

Yet the Evening Standard agrees with the Independent. It definately […]

Est-ce-que Skype va etre la prochaine choix pour une nouveau generation des personnes qui envoient le spam? Au moment, je choisis ‘Skype me’ toujours quand Skype est actif sur mon ordinateur pour que des autres utilisateurs pouvent m’appeler sans authorisation. Quelquefois je recois un bon appel de l’autre face du monde. Le Brasil aujourd’hui par […]

I really really really hope this is a joke:
Cumming, the Fragrance

Il y a une grande probleme avec la compagnie qui dirige les trains en ma ligne: la communication. Quelque-fois c’est quand nous sommes s’asseyions sur le train au centre de nulle part et le conducteur nous dis qu’il ne sais pas pourquoi. Une autre-fois c’est peut-etre sur les voies quand l’ecran lit ‘System Fault’. Hier […]

‘Do you want the trousers, or just the coat?’ asked the man from the navy. He was holding up a heavy-looking set of waterproof clothes. Above us, a gunmetal sky. All around, the Thames, looking like cold and very poorly-made tea.
‘I think I’ll take the trousers,’ I said. ‘It might rain.’
They were the world’s biggest […]

Regardez! Will a publier son nouveau blog: Random Thought Management. Il dit que ce n’est pas un blog, mais des objets qu’il trouvez sur l’internet. Ce ressembles un blog a moi, mais… pfft. C’est amusant.
Aujourd’hui, je travailles chez moi. C’est probablement bon: hier matin j’eus une grande accident dans le cuisine du bureau. Il y […]

I spent 45 minutes looking for a book in the big Waterstones over by the University at lunchtime, and eventually found it tucked away in an obscure spot on a bottom shelf in an empty room off to one side of the second floor. No wonder I couldn’t spot it.
Coming back to the tills to […]

Sun so hot I’ve had the windows open. Then snow. Then hail. Then sun. Then snow. Now wind that sounds like it’s going to tear the roof off the house. We’ve had every weather you could imagine today. Apart from thunder.
I’ve kept myself wrapped up warm inside, slowly trudging through that enormous crate of photos, […]