Through My Eyes
My wonky eyes have given me an idea for a new photography project.
The Best Worst Guitar
Epiphone 435i – a 1980s superstrat. HSS, with locking trem. I didn’t know anything about guitars. But I decided I wanted to play electric guitar. Mainly to fit in with some new friends at sixth…
A Voice for Ellie
Today I published my first short story on Amazon Kindle. Well not my first ever short story. It’s just the first that I’ve published on Amazon’s Kindle platform.
Videogame Ghosts
Lack of interactivity is something I’m noticing more and more in games. It’s not that the worlds used to be more interactive – it’s that as the detail in games has increased the level of…
Trouble in Greendale
For many years now Royal Mail Postman Pat Clifton was the man you could always rely on in Greendale. He was the glue that held the community together, the face of officialdom that could be…
Satan’s Navy – not by Patrick O’Brian
It seems the Royal Navy has officially recognised its first Satanist. You can read the full story courtesy of the BBC. At the urging of a friend and because clearly I had nothing better to…
Bagpuss – The Chocolate Biscuit Episode
Remembering a childhood classic now, in the form of my rant about the political ideas behind a certain episode of Bagpus. Well as you remember, Emily, the little girl who seemed to have somehow become…
Behold a Random Selection of Nonsense
Bagpuss – The Chocolate Biscuit Episode
Remembering a childhood classic now, in the form of my rant about the political ideas behind a certain episode of Bagpus. Well as you remember,…
Happy #nondom Day
Every general election has certain days you know will be super important. Even now it only takes a word or two to evoke those memories…
Peavey Sanpera II Vypyr Controller Review
In my review of the Peavey Vypyr 75 I pointed out that to get the full functionality of the amplifier you would need one of…
Videogames Are Rubbish & It’s Your Fault
Today marks the start of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo – otherwise known as E3. This massive trade show in California sees the big platform…
The New TV Editing Menace
I’ve written before about some of modern television’s mad new techniques to stretch half an hour into an hour slot. Shows like Location Location do…
Fiio E5 Headphone Amplifier Review
This isn’t my Cowon S9 32GB review. You’ve probably noticed that from the title. It was meant to be though. I just haven’t finished that…
Jumping Ship from Sony to Fujifilm?
Next week Sony will announced its successor to the NEX-6 camera. I’ve owned an NEX-6 since the camera was launched in the UK and it’s…
Ending the Guitar Tone Obsession
Do we guitarists obsess too much about tone? I’ve realised I certainly do. If I look back to the first 15 or so years of…
TC Electronic Flashback & Hall of Fame Review
Quality construction, great functionality and the new Toneprint function should make these winners.
Satan’s Navy – not by Patrick O’Brian
It seems the Royal Navy has officially recognised its first Satanist. You can read the full story courtesy of the BBC. At the urging of…
Channel Four Nonsense
Have you noticed something very wrong with many of Channel Four’s output over the last few years? My beef is in the way many of…
A Little End of Year Jam
Just a bit of fun.
IronGear Pickup Review
For the guitarist keen on replacing pickups on their electric guitar there are a wealth of choices. Well known names such as Seymour Duncan and…
Creationists No Longer Welcome
I know it’s a bit late for talking of new year resolutions but earlier in the month I couldn’t actually think of anything I wanted…
Dumbing Down Science
There’s a very interesting article about media attitudes to science over at The Guardian Online today. While regular readers of the blog will know I…
Videogame Ghosts
Lack of interactivity is something I’m noticing more and more in games. It’s not that the worlds used to be more interactive – it’s that…
Babyboomer Selfishness
Of the £160bn annual benefit budget nearly £75bn goes towards pensions. This in itself isn’t anything to complain about – many pensioners rely on these…
A Voice for Ellie
Today I published my first short story on Amazon Kindle. Well not my first ever short story. It’s just the first that I’ve published on…
Through My Eyes
My wonky eyes have given me an idea for a new photography project.
The Corned Beef Tin of Doom
A gruesome story from ten years ago…the faint-hearted might like to look away now.
Children & Violent Videogames
Do you ever just read something and hold your head in your hands in despair? I did when I just read some online debates among…
Jools Holland’s Formulaic Tosh
There was a time when “Later…” the live music show presented by Jools Holland was essential viewing. On a BBC that knows so little about…
The Birds & Bees Conversation
I’ve just driven back from town with my three year old daughter where we went to get a birthday card for a friend of hers…
RIP Our Fridge
Our fridge gave up today, meaning we’ve had to order a new one and throw a lot of food away. Your fridge dying is life’s…
Bishop David Walker on Poverty
I’ve read an excellent piece in today’s Guardian by Anglican bishop David Walker on the subject of the church’s recent head on collision with the…
The Wuss-Tones of Modern Rock
What in Tony Iommi’s blessed name is wrong with modern, so-called rock bands? I look at these bands such as Strokes, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand…