For the few folks who frequent my forums, you may have noticed that the Open Discussions sections have been removed. Now all the forums require registration to be able to post comments.

This move has been forced on me by the continuous abuse of the forums by spammers, who post link laden comments in an attempt [...]

Fair play to the people of London. Watching the news this morning, the overwhelming reaction from people travelling to work seems to be “screw the terrorists, life goes on as normal”. People are shocked and angry, but not scared, and certainly not willing to let these lunatics win. The London News Review carries an open [...]

It just keeps getting worse.

This morning news reports put the official death toll from the Indian Ocean Tsunami at a staggering 125,000 souls. The pictures of the tidal wave, and the devastation left behind are horrifying and heartbreaking. Businesses and individuals around the world are donating huge sums of money to help the disaster relief [...]

Elaine and I watched in shock as the TV news showed pictures of the devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tidal waves.

The last figure I heard for the death toll was 60,000. I simply can’t get my head around an event like that. There are devestating natural disasters, disease and famine wiping out people all [...]

A belated Merry Christmas, and a timely Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you had a great Christmas, and got some good loot?

We have had a fairly quiet time this year, with Elaine and I choosing to stay at home for our first Christmas as a married couple. It wasn’t quite the romantic affair [...]

Well, what fantastic seasonal weather we are having here in the UK. In the last few days, I have seen high winds, heavy rain and low temperatures out of my office window. The Wimbledon officials must be crying into their strawberries.

So, to the dipsticks whose response to the threat of Global Warming is “It will [...]

For those of you who give any credence to the Apollo Moon Landing hoax theorists, have a look at the information on this site. Enough said, really.

I am an unashamed fan of Aussie soap Neighbours, but I have to wonder what is going on at the moment with all the doom and gloom?

At the moment, we have Lou about to buy the farm in the Bush after losing his wife and all his money, Karl and Susuan Kennedy have split, seemingly [...]

Russ bought me a copy of The Last Samurai on DVD for my birthday, and I watched it last night for the first time (it is one of many “must see” films that I didn’t see at the cinema). Russ bought me it because he knows I like “all that Japanese sword waving and stuff”.

I [...]

Wincent Colaiuta has written a nice little article attacking the people trying to circumvent the FairPlay DRM that Apple uses for music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store.

I can’t download songs from iTMS yet, as it is only available in the US, but as far as I can tell the “usage restrictions” imposed by Apple [...]