After the dust has settled, will anything change?

After 37,500 complaints, Johnathan Ross has been suspended for three months without pay. Will that bother him? Probably not, he’ll only be losing out on £1million.

Can Villa Break the Top Four?

Alex Ferguson reckons Villa are “the only team he can realistically see challenging for a place in the top four”. That’s quite a compliment, especially considering his past history with the club and our players.
It will be interesting to see how our relatively small squad actually copes with so many fixtures this season. The [...]

Brand and Ross Suspended: Whole Thing Blown Out of Proportion

The BBC have announced today that Russell Brand and Johnathan Ross have been suspended following a series of prank calls to Andrew Sachs broadcast on Brand’s pre-recorded show on October 18th.
I don’t condone what Brand and Ross did on their show, but MPs calling for them to lose their jobs and the BBC suspending them [...]

Router Woes

I’ve had a Netgear DG834G router since v2 of the firmware was released (late 2003) and it served our small network of two laptops, an Xbox 360, a 500gb Landisk and Wi-fi radio quite well up until about a week ago.
Monday evening we had what can only be described as a mini powercut. The TV [...]

Going For It

I’ve always fancied myself as a writer. When I was 9 or so I wrote a series of them about a group of misfits who just happened to crew a spaceship. I have no idea where they got to, or even how bad the content of them was, but I realise now that holding on [...]

Revisited: How Podcasting is Helping Independent Artists

Over two years ago I was involved with Podcast User Magazine. It was an idea that a group of us had to deliver a magazine through PDF format automatically to our subscribers, via RSS. We assembled a group of well known podcasters (and some not so well known) from around the UK and set about [...]

More of Me

I’ve missed blogging. When I first started in 2005 it was more to accompany my podcasts than anything. Somewhere to write the shownotes, plea for people to get in contact with me etc; a general extension and companion to my show (and it’s many incarnations).
I remember a few times I moaned about the current state [...]

Netbooks

It seems that the new craze for the end of this year is for everyone to have a netbook. They’re now being sold at the Carphone Warehouse with mobile broadband packages and are going some way to encouraging people who aren’t particularly tech savvy to jump on board and get online.
PCs used to be considered [...]

Blogging Again

I’ve been trying to start a blog again for a few months now, but haven’t been able to get in to gear to get it done. This past week has given me that impetus to get on with it. I’ll bring you opinion pieces, posts relating to GamesAreEvil and my shenanigans over there and everything [...]