Category: Non-techie stuff

  • The Time Machine

    When I was in the library, deciding what to watch I saw The Time Machine (2002) sitting on the shelf. I’ve wanted to see this for ages, mostly because I dimly recall seeing the original film and liking it, and partly because I saw the trailer ages ago. So I picked it up. Oh, for…

  • Virgin to drop Lost?

    Can it really be true that Virgin, run by that nice man Richard Branson, are thinking about dropping Sky One from their cable TV offering? That’s certainly what the rather alarming advert said in the middle of last week’s episode anyway, and it seems to be corroborated by The Guardian. Virgin recently bought NTL, and…

  • One man’s junk

    Amazing what you can find when you start looking. I went up into our loft to get down the old BBC computers I’d kept from ages ago, and they were in better condition than I thought they would be. I also found a computer (an HP 9000/340) I’d forgotten about completely. I still don’t quite…

  • Wanted: Album cover quiz

    Sue and I played one of those album cover quizzes online. Sue’s so much better than I am at getting them right! But it got me thinking: how hard would it be to make one and put it right here? Oh, I’m sure it could be done as a one-off without too much trouble, but…

  • Super Scrabble

    I expected Super Scrabble to take longer to play than normal Scrabble I suppose. It took three hours, but it was great fun. You get so used to the triple word scores being in the middle of the edges with normal Scrabble that it’s a bit of a surprise when they aren’t on the edge…