Just for the record, today is not ”a glorious day”. Nor is it “a lovely day for a walk”, or a “pleasant extra bit of summer”. It is a grotesque travesty inflicted upon us by the unflinching, ever-burning daystar, which we must all endure with typical British stoicism. We should certainly not be running about enjoying the [...]
If you’re familiar with Xbox Live then you’ll be aware that it allows you to make a little avatar of yourself and dress him how you please. This doesn’t achieve anything (there are a few games which use the xbox avatars, but they’re pretty universally shit); your avatar pretty much just exists as a representation [...]
Videogame companies enjoy rehashing old ideas; it saves time, effort and – most importantly - money. This is why we’ve started seeing two Call of Duty games each year, and way Microsoft refuse to allow the Halo series to have a dignified death. Gamers are to blame for this, too – ‘more of the same’ is pretty [...]
There’s been some talk on the right about abolishing the 50% tax bracket for super-high earners. It’s hardly the first time any opposition to this has been voiced, but this time one of the people voicing his opposition is the Chancellor of the Exchequer – millionaire George “don’t call me Gideon” Osborne – so there’s [...]
Twitter feed fixed (by which I mean ‘different, less breakable plugin installed’). Posts should be G+ compatible now, too (I’ve had to go to the effort of creating a Google+ account for this, you know. Although I already had a gmail account, like everyone else on the planet, so ‘effort’ might be going a bit [...]
It’s the tenth anniversary of September 11th today, and so a lot of Americans are talking about their memories of the day. Actually, a lot of non-Americans are talking about their memories of the day, too – I’m not going to start pretending it was a universally American event. The attacks were definitely an eye-opener [...]
My son has just completed his GCSEs, so I was paying a bit more attention this year to all the hue and cry about exam results – but I’ve not been immune to the fact that, for as long as I can recall, we’ve been saying that exams are getting easier. The other way of [...]
