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You don’t need anything after an ice cream 13 Nov 2011 | 05:45 am
I was quite prepared for Adam Ant to be a bit of a shambles. I’ve been vaguely following his adventures over the last couple of years, and when I saw, months ago, that he’d be playing a gig in Bristol...
Hello Goodbye 6 Nov 2011 | 02:25 pm
I had this aunt. Andy, short for Andrea, married to my uncle Alan, my mum’s brother. They lived in the village where my mum and Alan had grown up, notable mainly for being home to Acker Bilk. Once, wh...
Going rhinoviral 9 Sep 2011 | 10:25 am
I’ve had a cold. To be precise, I still have a cold. It made itself known on Saturday morning as a bit of a sore throat, became a lot of a sore throat over the course of the weekend and then really ki...
The most dangerous app ever invented 6 Apr 2011 | 08:00 am
Billy Connolly used to do this routine years ago, about the small ads for utter crap that you get in the back of the Sunday papers. Trenchcoats, the big slipper, incontinence pants and, crucially, the...
So I bought an iPad 2 27 Mar 2011 | 09:44 am
I’m nothing if not true to my word, on occasion. I avoided the actual iPad 2 launch – although I did swing by the Apple store towards 5pm to take a look at the queue. Quite large, just the sort of thi...
Turning tricks 25 Mar 2011 | 09:00 am
The iPad 2’s out tomorrow in the UK. The headlines: it’s faster, it’s flatter and it has front and back cameras so that you can Facetime on it. That’s about it. To be fair it had me at faster and fla...
About Minotron 16 Mar 2011 | 09:14 am
When I get round to writing my personal history of videogames it’s going to have some telling omissions that I’ll have to write around. Like the Playstation; every iteration thereof. I had a go on a f...
Micro, not Nano 15 Feb 2011 | 11:56 am
Another day, another Apple rumour. You can’t beat a good Apple rumour, can you? They’re such fun, because they almost always boil down to someone quoting someone else who’d heard that someone had actu...
John Lennon – an alternate timeline 9 Dec 2010 | 06:11 am
So, what if John Lennon hadn’t got shot on 8 December 1980? Here’s what I think might have happened. 8 December 1980: John Lennon has a nice evening in. Mark Chapman is arrested for loitering outside...
Giving up smoking is easy 9 Oct 2010 | 09:42 am
I gave up smoking. And it’s been fine. No, honestly. Which goes against expectations a little. I’ve been smoking for around 20 years and I’d tried giving up once before, about 18 years ago. Felt drea...
