Television: no longer the lonely

After a week of trying I finally got hold of Sky Player on the Xbox at the weekend. The thing that caught my eye (other than the lack of watchable programming) is the option of watching shows with friends through Xbox Live: You can sit your avatar down with friends in front of a big [...]

Online Room 101

Jed tagged me in a meme and dammit I intend to follow through, so here we go:
 

 
I had a little problem with this one because the nature of the internet is such that if you don’t like something you just don’t go to it. However, i managed to scrape a few together and without further [...]

My friend Esther

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at the beginning of the week I started getting Skype messages from a nice Ghanaian girl named Esther. At first I thought Esther a run of the mill spammer/ scam artist but Esther was persistent so I eventually responded. Turns out Esther grandma has malaria and Esther needed 100 Euros to buy the [...]

Be Original

I’ve noticed a recent trend in advertising which I really want to have a little rant about, so bare with me.
In the last 2 months three different adverts have begun showing which blatantly, shamelessly rip off music videos.
First we had this:

The Berocca Advert ‘with the treadmills’ a bit like:

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Where on Earth is G.W’s spin team?

I’m a little bit lefty, It comes with the Sociology thing, but I have to admit I’ve been feeling pretty sorry for President G.W. Bush recently. First there was G20 when he stared at the ground and looked like a lonely school boy while everyone else made nice.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Now incredulous Iraqis are [...]