Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90.

Without him, I almost certainly would not be where I am today.

If you abandon your wife and newborn baby to see one film this year, make sure that film is Transformers.

Any Americans reading this are doubtless going to be a bit bemused, given rainy old England's popular image but really, flash floods are something of a novelty here. We generally get much more businesslike rain. None of this flashy months-worth-in-12-hours stuff. Rain that settles in and does the job without fuss. The rivers swell and burst their ( Read more... )

What happens when a British institution is introduced to the ailing digestive system of a post-op American? Click here to view my most fiendish plot yet.

I am so pleased with myself.

I'm giving away the suprise here, but I was expecting outpourings of joy/disgust. Even given I made the mistake of posting overseas during the Easter weekend, the parcel should have arrived.

I expected stories! Possibly with a step-by-step photo diary.

WHERE'S THE DAMN MARMITE CHRIS?!

OK, one random conversation about Marmite is fair enough. Two a co-incidence. Three and it's time to get out the soapbox and start preaching, just so I don't have to do it again ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of setting up a play-by-web nomic game. Nomic is a game where the rules simply detail how to propose, amend and repeal rules, and outline a trivial win condition that's almost certain to be repealed in the early stages. It plays like a cross between playground make-it-up-as-you-go games and parliamentary democracy.

Anyone interested

As Flashman would say, this is why so much of the map is pink. It makes you proud to be British.

Things are getting complicated. There's this weird dimensional anomaly the far side of the gauntlet that's had the ethernaughts and the mystics running scared since it popped up, back around the time we lost Alexis. I've always dismissed it as rather lower on my list of priorities than anything that actually exists in the same world as I do, which ( Read more... )

Yes, they call it shear thickening fluid....

But we all know it's really Solarium Enhanced Quasi-Antithixotropic armour.

I should have patented it when I had the chance...