According to Steam, I've now clocked up 201 hours play-time on Skyrim, so I thought I might make a few observations here.

• It's beautiful. Everybody says this, because it is. In many ways it's the most outstanding feature of the game: you just can't look at it without going, "Gosh, how beautiful is that?"
• It's big. For example, after 201 hours ( Read more... )

There’s been a spate of stories recently about “middle class” drinking, which stem from a report produced by Liverpool John Moores University. The BBC’s coverage is reasonably typical ( Read more... )

This journal was friends only from 2006 to 2011, but I have been making a few public entries since January 2012.

If you ask, by leaving a comment here (which will be screened), and explain who you are*, then I will almost certainly add you as a friend. In order for me to do this, you will need to have a LiveJournal of your own (or an OpenID). ( Read more... )