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While I wait for the Timeline Borg to assimilate me
Published on 2012-04-05 14:49:00
You will be assimilatedWhile I wait for the facebook Borg to assimilate me into the Timeline upgrade, I can hear the muffled cries from the corridor as mates of mine are taken over one by one or in waves. For the few days from the 31st of March I checked every hour or two, half expecting the FB police to have broken in and dragged my profile away. But still nothing. > read more
Kony 2012 aftermath or All I got was this lousy bracelet for $30
Published on 2012-03-22 16:05:00
It's been > read more
Watch Ranczo and other Polish telly online
Published on 2012-03-22 10:30:00
This won't be one of my normally long posts, as it's about getting a simple message out simply. If you like Poland's most popular comedy/soap Ranczo, you want to watch it even if you don't live in Poland. If you live in the European Union, you can watch direct from the station's website TVP.PL. That means for example, if you live in the UK, you too can log into the page and watch Ranczo and an entire range of other Polish television programmes and news from Poland. Are you living in the Polish d [..] > read more
You can't say feckin on Coronation Street
Published on 2012-03-05 09:41:00
Every couple of months it gets too much and I have to stop watching Corrie. This last Corriecation has been triggered by the appalling rape story line that has dragged like cat sick on the floor that even Phil Collinson speaking at the St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre's annual conference, could not clean up. Standing behind the story despite admitting procedural errors in the trail and the post trial depiction that allowed the victim and the acquitted rapist to be alone with each othe [..] > read more
10 things to make your computer safer, more efficient and practical
Published on 2012-02-17 18:07:00
Luddite, experienced or one who goes where weeping angels fear to tread, on any given day of the week when you turn your computer on, you wonder, is there any way I can do this better, faster, safer. Can I get my personal slave be more cooperative and less of an accident waiting to happen. Well of course there is, but you have to be ever vigilant and ever so likely to spend more time at tech sites than most people are prepared to do. Over the last few months a few things have come along into thi [..] > read more
River Cottage:Veg
Published on 2011-10-24 12:21:00
You know there had to be a bookHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's latest foray into food crusading was launched this week amid much advertising and apparent high expectation. Sadly the promised veg recipes and the idea of vegetarian food in this first programme, are a bland all or nothing affair. Ah but to begin at the beginning. Hugh has decided to become a vegetarian for a few months, ostensibly to save the environment and perhaps to shut up his ultra vegan mates. He has however missed a brilliant [..] > read more
May you live in intersting times or How the world regularly goes to Hell and back
Published on 2011-10-10 01:33:00
Ceauşescu retires as PresidentThere is a quaint notion running through the west that manifests itself in the philosophies of The Red Cross, Amnesty International and press outlets like The Guardian or Times. It' a simple idea... All proper democratic right thinking governments and revolutionaries shall never ever , ever, harm people or be mean to it's enemies in the delusional belief that the enemies in question will play by the same rules. The problem with this, is that the bad guys rarely if [..] > read more
The God Complex or Mrs Williams figures it out
Published on 2011-09-17 23:16:00
Keep your hats on people. It isn't as bad as it looks. I have it on good word straight from the convention floor, that Karen Gillan isn't leaving Doctor Who any time soon. If anything, she and Arthur Darvill are going to be in the 50th anniversary programme and probably at least till the conclusion of the Amy/River/Doctor story. That said, tonight's ep wasn't about how many eps are left for the Williams family, it was about Amy waking up once and for all to the stark truth that her life is with [..] > read more
Night Terrors, a refreshing diversion from the norm.
Published on 2011-09-10 01:24:00
Well It's Friday night Saturday morning and the next Doctor Who will be on in a few short hours. Much as I am excited and anxious to be sat in the armchair an hour before the devil knows I've tuned into BBC1, I am just now coming to terms with last weeks ep. Night Terrors, a story of a little boy and all that scares him.Those of us old enough to remember the 60's, even found George's room familiar. From the toys to the wallpaper to the pyjamas. I won't say Terrors was a light hearted trip down m [..] > read more
Just one more cup of tea, then I'll start
Published on 2011-09-06 02:28:00
Sometimes it's just really hard to get going, so far I've made several cups of tea, had a bath, watched the news, eaten two bowls of corn flakes and googled online eps of The Nanny. In fairness I am recovering from the month of August during which both my wife and I hardly had a break from making home made noodles for local Muslims during Ramadan. It takes a lot of time and energy to make 4 or 5 kilos overnight, leaving you knackered and craving your bed till at least noon or 2 in the aftern [..] > read more
R.I.P. Torchwood 2006-11 or Miracle Day mess
Published on 2011-08-18 18:20:00
At long last, it has happened. Russell T. Davies has allowed his creation to be killed off by a combination of American money, being full of himself and the absolute crime of trying to sell tuna as filet mignon.Back on 22 October 2006, a small band of odd warriors of all things not important enough for the Doctor to sort, broke on the scene and launched a love affair that lasted to about a week after "Children of the Earth", when certain obsessive fans girls wanted a mildly needy poof resurrecte [..] > read more
The Doctor's wife or The love of a man for his car
Published on 2011-05-17 18:37:00
Well I have been banging on for such a long time that we needed more Tardis, and now we get so much more than we could have hoped for. Neil Gaiman the prototypical Who geek turned successful writer went where most of us wanted to, INSIDE THE TARDIS. > read more
The Curse of the Black Spot: Homicidal mermaid on the loose
Published on 2011-05-07 18:37:00
And for those of you who endured the last few minutes with a mechanical hare, the Italian cheese is Asiago and Gulliver's travels was the oldest in the list. Just how dim do you have to be to need to think and debate on questions like these? Good thi > read more
Day of the Moon (part 2): Still confused but I'm ok with that.
Published on 2011-05-04 12:31:00
I'm still wondering about a few things...it's beyond ratings, it's an event, a cathartic break with the tension building since first we met River Song. All together now... I'm confused and I'm ok with that. Last Saturday's Doctor Who was less an > read more
The Impossible Astronaut: Part one
Published on 2011-04-24 04:27:00
WARNING SPOILERS: If you've not yet seen this, then please look no further. Finally after much gnashing of teeth and beating of breasts, fandom on both sides of the pond can come together albeit a bit delayed , and on the same day discuss our brillia > read more
Don't scare the Hare... it may kill you.
Published on 2011-04-23 16:10:00
When the BBC gets it wrong, they get it horribly wrong. In order to not miss a second of my precious Doctor Who return tonight, I tuned into BBC One a bit early. I did so with a great deal of trepidation. Don't scare the hare.....Game show in w > read more
I laughed, I cried, I vomited: New sexy history
Published on 2011-04-16 04:23:00
History was never tougher than this. I can hear India Fisher reaching for the " Hey that's my line" special number, but the first thing went through my mind when I watched Dan Snow present the Medieval London part of BBC's Fithy Cities, was who did h > read more
I'm prolly on a no fly list now or How I learned to love Al Jazeera
Published on 2011-03-10 20:48:00
Someone asked me the other day how the writing is going...Despite having promised to not get sucked into yet another North African revolution, Libya was too much to resist. It resembles the struggle and conflict that occurred in Europe in times > read more
A slightly sadder, slightly better place
Published on 2011-02-24 01:10:00
Last post I told you how very deeply unhappy I was at the new offerings even from my beloved BBC. A few days on and some cleansing of the palette with a few old Doctor Whos and the World seems a better, albeit sadder place. A long time ago when I was > read more
What's that smell coming off my telly. Outcasts, Secret Diaries & Master Chef
Published on 2011-02-19 20:46:00
Sometimes you just wish you didn't bother. This week was one of those times. After at least a fortnight, that's two weeks for those of you in the colonies, I was finally cured of Egyptitis. However chuffed to bits I am for the people of Egypt a > read more
The genie is out of the bottle: Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Iran & Israel.
Published on 2011-02-14 16:36:00
Having been forced to watch from afar in the relative safety of my home, I saw from 1980 the birth of Solidarity in Poland, the imposition of martial law and the advent of Peristroika from Moscow as of 1985, through to the semi free and fair Polish e > read more
The Emperor has no clothes: peoples revolutions v special interests
Published on 2011-01-31 08:38:00
Since 1989 and probably at selected times since 1840's Europe, the world's people have more and more taken the initiative in causing regime change in "sphere of influence" states of the great western and eastern powers. With the rise of educated comf > read more
New Stig grows up, Sky lost some weight, and I learned some Danish
Published on 2011-01-26 17:30:00
And on the 38th day new Stig instructed his first star in a reasonably priced car. New Stig was finally allowed of his cage after having eaten the raw meat Jezza had left for him. Amazing how quickly they grow up. As Clarkson remarked, he'll so > read more
BBC's Episodes and Michel Roux's Service hit our screens this week
Published on 2011-01-13 14:30:00
This week the BBC unleashed two programmes guaranteed to please or appal depending on who you are. Let's start with the one that pleased and appalled in equal measure. Episodes, BBC2's comedy about a pair of happy award winning writers who find > read more
Zen and the return of Larkrise
Published on 2011-01-11 14:39:00
Let me tell you what's annoying about BBC One's Zen before I tell you how terrific it is. To explain Zen you need to know it's a detective drama about Italians, the two lead actresses who respectively play Zen's mam and his se > read more
Southern Sudan at long last is one step closer to reality
Published on 2011-01-09 07:46:00
The world as we know it is about to end, in a vote that the Egyptians and the Northern Sudanese and by extension the The United States probably won't like, the sovereign , natural and long deserved country of Southern Sudan will in effect be born in > read more
Boys will be boys or the BBC in winter
Published on 2011-01-05 10:48:00
If there is one theme running through the programming I've watched this Christmas and New Years season, it's Boys will be Boys. Never more than during the long doldrums of December and early January has the telly and particularly the BBC shown > read more
Is it over yet? Ah Good Morning or Hello or whatever it's 2011
Published on 2011-01-01 11:19:00
Yes more Whiskey please.... Drink, Feck, Arse! Time for some resolutions, this year I will not say Glake, mong or eedjit..... unless of course I'm provoked.I will avoid temptation and not watch anything with Katie Price, James Corden or Amanda Hol > read more
2010 nearly done 2011 nearly here
Published on 2010-12-30 16:41:00
Allow me a moment of sentimentality and introspection. It's been very nearly a year since I first took my long private posts and made them into a public blog. To be honest I wonder what kept me from going public far earlier, could have been the dodgy > read more
Doctor Who A Christmas Carol or A story of Faith, Hope and Charity
Published on 2010-12-25 19:20:00
Warning, normally I don't give anything away integral to the plot, but this time I'm going to have to drop several huge spoilers to get through this. If you haven't watched this, don't read past this first paragraph .Well thank you very much Steven M > read more
Germany to re-arm, Russia reacts, Poland wishes it were somewhere else
Published on 2010-12-22 10:41:00
A few days ago the BBC announced that Germany was going to re-arm. As a person born to parents who lived through WW2 and Poles to boot, I had that feeling you get when a shadow crosses your path for no apparent reason. My father made a face and whisp > read more