Month: September 2008

I’m watching the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham and it got me thinking. The attendees love the Tory party, and not because they’re crazy. They’ve benefited from their Tory-led council,…

This is like a sore tooth, but I had to comment on the creationists who feel abused and attacked by Spore. You have to either laugh or cry. Anyway, I…

Wordsmith.org can find 6155 anagrams for Kenneth James Park. My favourite two are Khan Japes Trek Men: and Thane Spank Jerk Me, which you’ll forgive me if I don’t illustrate.…

The filmakers’ previous film was Hannah Takes the Stairs, which I haven’t seen. Before this morning the names Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig meant nothing to me. I’ve just seen,…

A reader on Boing Boing going by the name of loraksus accused me of being an EA shill for the post on Spore’s DRM. While I admire the diligence in…

Anyone who knows me (or read the old blog before my host deleted it) knows I hate DRM. I read with interest, then, about the backlash against the heavily-anticipated Will…

I recently edited a commercial apiece for Clyde One and Forth One, Glasgow and Edinburgh radio stations respectively. Like the Leprosy ads, I can’t see the ads on the stations’…

Here are two TV ads I did for the Leprosy Mission Scotland. I had trouble viewing them on their official site (might be a Mac thing), so I’m hosting them…

I recently edited some TV spots for a campaign to raise awareness of randmised clinical trials. They were shown across Scotland with each region having its own version. Here they…

I had to use Microsoft Windows today. I had to transfer a file onto a USB flash drive. Within seconds I was grinding my teeth, within the first minute I…