If I read football reports more often I probably wouldn’t be surprised by this:
Tottenham Hotspur surrendered the last unbeaten away record in the Premiership last night, their desperate attempts to retrieve parity denied twice by the woodwork [...]
I find it most odd that the woodwork (that’s the goalposts of course — I had to read [...]

I have to buy a new computer. I didn’t want to, as my current machines are running fine, but…
There’s only one computer game I care about, and that’s Civilization (annoyingly with a Z, as it’s from the US). It’s a turn-based game (which means I can go have a cup of tea without everything falling [...]

SHOCKED! Yes, shocked I was by this terrible crime captured on the front of Dell’s website:

GASP at the callousness of the generically no-good hooded youth. SEE the look of pain and horror on the stereotypical businesswoman’s face. FEEL her heart-stopping loss as she claws the air where she once held her laptop. WONDER what the [...]

On Wednesday I returned home to find an insurance statement had been delivered in a clear plastic Royal Mail “damage bag” with “Sincere apologies” stamped on it. It had somehow come out of its envelope and Royal Mail had bagged it up before delivery. Because I get that particular insurance through a third party I [...]

At AskPhilosophers.org “You ask. Philosophers answer.” A terribly uninspired slogan which proves they’re real philosophers who shouldn’t go anywhere near a marketing department. While away those empty office hours rummaging through good questions and better answers. Here are some samples…
On history:
How legitimate can history be if every document that has ever been written has some [...]

I saw X-Men last night. Exciting stuff, but the pace was upset slightly when I realised Jack Straw was playing one of the lead roles:

That’s his first appearance in the film, by the way. He plays Toad.
Tags: films, lookalikes, xmen

Once Ajax was just a buzzword following on from a couple of nifty applications. I said then (not very loudly, I admit) that it would all be a bit flakey until the libraries and the books came along. Well, now they’re coming along think and fast. Here are some libraries I’ve found in the Java [...]

Following my discovery yesterday that the Daily Mail had swooped on kakuro, I spent some time trying to think up another game to compete with that an sudoku, before finding something more rewarding to do. Of course, G2 themselves couldn’t let it go, and today they’ve trumped the Mail with… maru-batsu!

They’ve even used that cheap [...]

I thought it was confined to the back of G2, but kakuro has now spread to the Daily Mail.

The Guardian was late to pick up on the sudoku craziness; I suspect they feel well satisfied they’re not only ahead of the curve this time, but actually created it in the UK.
Meanwhile, I see the Mail’s [...]