Me and Philip José Farmer (RIP)
No I never met him, and he hadn’t a clue who I was, but I had a relationship with PJF, and now that he’s passed — at the can’t-complain-age of…
The UK has the final stretch of Battlestar Galactica
UPDATE: I have discovered that this post is mostly bollocks, because Sky have been showing the new episodes in this country for weeks (in fact, just four days after the…
3D editing: first sensible comment
John Scalzi commented on his blog last Sunday that the problem with the editing in a 3D film like Coraline is that the eye must refocus. I’m dying to see…
Me and Bono: great minds (apart from Bono)
Rick was just in Dublin, filming U2 for an upcoming Culture Show special. Apparently, Bono expressed his frustration that the metadata of mp3s isn’t exploited nearly enough. He wondered, for…
Top blogging tip: illiteracy!
Checking my stats today I found that someone came to this blog via a simple search for one of the most ubiquitous words on the internet. Doing the same search,…