Category: Non-techie stuff

  • Happy Danes

    The BBC Magazine is running an article about Denmark, and how “happiness” surveys show that they are generally happier than the rest of us Europeans (I’m including Brits in that). But, in classic BBC style, they need to tell both sides of the story; except in this case I’m not sure what they’re trying to…

  • Mother’s Day inventor tried to uninvent it

    I never knew that: The fight to copyright Mother’s Day.

  • Eurovision: Torn

    Thankfully this year there isn’t a song amongst the six UK candidates that I’d be embarrassed for us to be sending to Eurovision, although the Hawkins & Brown attempt was a little disappointing (too much of a mish-mash for my liking).  So who did I vote for?

  • M:I, Count On Me, Mulholland Dr.

    Watching Mission: Impossible III a while back reminded me how good the M:I films are, so we watched the first two again. The first one really was as good as I remembered it being, but I couldn’t remember quite how the second one went. Watching it again, I can see why I didn’t find it…

  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    I found The Royal Tenenbaums to be quite similar to The Squid and the Whale, in that I didn’t really enjoy it.