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Black Tower, Orford Ness
I’ve tried to go to Orford Ness for a few years now. It’s where all the British atomic weapons research was conducted through and beyond the Second World War.
The Ness itself is a spit of […]

It’s not only the runners that get worn out
The streets of London are bathed in Lucozade tonight, in the aftermath of the Marathon. I headed up with the fair-weather commuters and made came in Canada Square so I could watch the runners plod through Docklands.
It’s a couple of years since I last did the marathon, […]

We’re one man down as Chris of the Brennan left MacUser, after three and a half years of playing darts in the postroom writing about Macs. Apparently, on my first day as editor, he was skulking down the lab as I did my initial walk around talking to everyone about what they did on the […]

I’ve been playing around with Google Calendar these last few days, and I’ve been quite impressed. It looks good, it imported my iCal calendar without any problems (although I’ve not yet separated out my individual offline calendars into individual calendars in Google Calendar) and it has all the friendly, easy to use, twiddly bits you’d […]

I looked up some books about the Coast to Coast walk on Amazon. Top hit? 101 Things to do with a Slow Cooker. Unless that’s because you could walk the whole route in the amount of time it takes to cook a chicken, I don’t immediately see the relevance.

The illustration on our mailbox page is always a highlight of every issue. I’ve never met Chris, who draws them, but he always does a good job of bringing a bit of humour to the page. And next issue, it’ll be Kenny and me who are the subjects, divining Apple’s future moves with the help […]

It’s Easter weekend and it’s spring, so what better way to spend the Easter weekend than out and about enjoying the countryside? So, I travelled up to London and joined 30 other walkers on the second coach of the train to Robertsbridge, a little nowhere town in Sussex. The ticket office at Charring Cross clearly […]

One of the RSS feeds I subscribe to is the BBCF log of film classifications. It gives you a heads-up on films heading this way, and a brief run down of why the board decided they should be suitable for certain types of viewer.
The site also has a run down of stats going right back […]

I went to Upminster for the first time in about 12 years tonight. It’s traditional that every Good Friday we all get together for dinner in a restaurant of a different nationality. Having exhausted Chinese and Indian years ago, we spent last Good Friday eating Polish food, and tonight munching Greek.
Loads of it. We could […]

Yes. It’s a sweet. Where Keith gets them from (and why), I don’t know. We gave it to Aston to eat, but even he couldn’t manage more than a mouthful.