Posts from 2006

A fun day. A bit of wheeling, a bit of dealing. Listed my old phone on eBay only for it to be ‘bought’ by our old friend, a Nigerian “419″ scammer. Not a particularly good one either. Obviously I caught it, reported it etc, but now I’m struck by a more interesting thought. Would the [...]

Just upgraded to a Nokia N73. Very nice it is too. I’ve pretty much come to expect good usability from Nokia – I loved their older phones and they do an admiral job of keeping complex phones as simple as possible. Anyway, it being a 3G handset, Orange are desperate to foist 3G content on [...]

Mick Hucknall makes a fool of himself on Comment Is Free. No need to add my own analysis, the comments suffice rather nicely. Poor Mick. Poor Cliff, too.

Interesting article on the BBC site: “Web fuelling crisis in politics“. As a rule, I tend to find any government proclamation on the state of the web patronising at best, dangerously ill-informed at worst – but, for once, I’m in agreement. I find the majority of political blogs little more than infantile, partisan nonsense. This [...]

It’s not often I talk about particular albums on here, mostly because I’m fully aware of the pitfalls of sounding like an amateur sixth form critic. But I have to recommend Joanna Newsom’s Ys. Please buy it.

A simple library error has rocketed Tesco to the top of the Corrupters Of The Nation’s Children league. In short, they classified an adult pole-dancing kit under “Games” on their site – meaning that it would appear under certain searches for toys. This despicable crime was picked up by, who else, the Daily Mail. Predictably, [...]

Me + capoeira.Think about it.Picture it in your mind. Get a good visual image.Imagine me at a capoeira event.Now imagine me, Cennydd Bowles, doing capoeira. Now imagine me waterskiing.Imagine me waterskiing, being chased by sharks.Imagine me waterskiing over a rivine, being chased by sharks.Malfunctioning robot sharks with bombs in their mouths. Which is more likely? [...]