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Well, arse.

I pranged the new car earlier this evening. Looks like just the front bumper’s damaged (and spotlights, headlamp washers etc.) and that is currently being held in place with cable ties. Scatter your own random selection of curses, imprecations, expletives and invectives liberally across the remainder of this page.

Hot Mage Action

I’ve been trying out the new Refer-A-Friend system in WoW. And as I have no friends who are even remotely interested in WoW and yet are not already playing it, who else could I refer but myself?
Yes. I am now officially a dual-boxer.
Boy, it’s fun. I love setting things on fire anyway, so controlling two [...]

Big Flappy

Last night I came to the end of a long(ish) rep grind and obtained my well-deserved prize:
[Reins of the Purple Netherwing Drake]
After a brief period of celebration, I am wondering what to do next.

Lyrical Lunacy

Another in our occasional ongoing series exploring just what the hell songwriters are jabbering on about, and what, if anything, can be done to bring their output a little more in line with reality.

Today: Arthur’s Theme, by Christopher Cross.

Holiday

It may well be that it’s only once you’re on holiday that you realise how much you really needed one. On the other hand, it may not.
Either way, I just had a most splendid week on the west coast of Scotland with some of my lovely friends. There was wine, a trip to Skye, several [...]

Huh

I guess one of the supposed benefits (and there are precious few) of being ill is that it gives one time to muse, and to think deep thoughts, to ponder upon the nature of existence and the meaning of life. To consider the universe and one’s place within it. To come, in short, one tiny [...]

Bah

This cold/flu/virus/whatever can just bite my ass.
That is all.

Back in Azeroth again

It seems that the new content in the Sunwell Isle patch was just too much for me to resist, so I have once more returned to World of Warcraft. No doubt I will get fed up with it again and leave again, only to return again when Wrath of the Lich King comes out. And [...]

Dunkability

The biscuit reviews return. Or will, when I write any new ones.
Dunkability. It’s like Biscuit of the Week, only more honest.

Enough.

Enough with the fake Heath Ledger grief. You didn’t know him. You didn’t know Diana. If you reserved your grief for those people actually close to you, it might actually have some meaning. More meaning than it has when you spray it like brightly-coloured vomit across the obituary pages of Heat.
Jesus.