January 2010
29 posts
"Friends" for a new generation
Pointed out something rather poignant to my good lady wife just now. ”Glee” has that stone-gathering-moss feel to it from the hype surrounding it that “Friends” had when I was about 13 or so. I remember Stephen Dobson (godfather to my son) explaining it to me on the bus…”There’s this guy Ross and his sister…they meet their friends in a coffee...
“My sister has hayfever, now she has diabetes. I tried to cheer her up…you...”
– Milton Jones
“Television is the nation’s fireplace.”
– Stephen Fry
Back to FUMBBL
Disappointed with Cyanide Studio’s take on “Blood Bowl”, which is in my opinion the best game to have come out of Games Workshop’s stable. Updated to Living Rulebook 5, it has been beset with bugs, dropped connections and port issues.
So…I have gone back to FUMBBL. It is by far the best online Blood Bowl League, with the best coaches in the world on it. Helps me...
Unfit
Played in a 5-a-side football match last night in memory of a former student of my current school that died a few years ago.
Realised the full extent of my unfitness. So…forced myself with aching legs out of the door today for a run. There is a hill within 500 yards of my house no matter which way I run, so I opted for the closer one to get it out of the way.
It hurt. However, it was...
Coolest geeky thing ever? →
Nexus One...more reviews →
Ease of use
This is the last novelty post whilst investigating Tumblr. Posting from your mobile couldn't be easier and I'm going for mobile posts to be under the "chat" tag.
Nexus One...first review →
Tumblr...it's what you make it, surely!
I began the transition from Apple’s “MobileMe” service about two months ago. £90 a year became unjustifiable with the poor support, outages and frankly shoddy email webclient. I moved my mail to Gmail (faster webclient), my calendar to Google as well (SMS alerts!), my online storage to DropBox (sooo much better than the iDisk) and that left a couple of things. YouTube handles...
