I was thinking on Wednesday evening * that The Who have lost their drummer and bass player – the rôles of the surviving members of The Beatles. What would The Who have been like with Ringo on drums and McCartney … Continue reading →

Does anyone else have a problem with accessing live.com (now annoyingly used for hotmail.com too)? I can see it here (WinXP64+Firefox and Ubuntu 6.10+Firefox) and at work (Win2k+IE6 over Citrix) but not on the client PCs at work (Ubuntu 6.06 … Continue reading →

.. is very very good. Aardman claymation visual style plus a very British sense of humour done with Dreamworks computer animation. I see Pixar are doing a 'rat' film: their's have beautifully animated fur, while these don't even have combed … Continue reading →

The Prestige The original book is magnificent. I liked the film… but it isn't. Interestingly, for once a film adaptation has made the main characters nastier and less sympathetic. The book's Angier and Borden are tied into a rivalry in … Continue reading →

This may just be me being dim, but what on earth makes YouTube worth so much money to the otherwise usually sensible Google? To be sure, it currently has lots of users, but there's nothing special about the technology (see … Continue reading →