or: Reliving My Teenage YearsI've got it down to a fortnightly round-up, now we're getting somewhere ( Read more... )

or: HOLY FUCKNUTS BATMANI was on my way to the third car boot sale of Sunday morning, and upon attempting to slow down for a roundabout, I discovered that my brakes were feeling...less than co-operative. When you are travelling at 50mph this is really not desirable ( Read more... )

grumble grumble one of these days i will actually become true to my word and update more than once every four weeks. Okay let's go:

( Challenge fights, swashbuckling, and more! )

with your host, me!

A very slightly edited version of my Sherlock Holmes article is now a permanent feature at the Bartitsu web site! (on the "Pages" sidebar, under "The Bartitsu Legacy"). While not quite the same as being "properly" published, it's an encouraging thing and a good start. I corresponded with Tony Wolf, a martial artist and fight ( Read more... )

Here is the second and final part of my article! This bit has more video clips and pictures so if the first part was too tl;dr for you and you just want to see funny Victorian men belabouring each other as they see fit, maybe this part will be more up your alley.

Arthur Conan Doyle's spelling error allows for some creative license in the ( Read more... )

I know the movie has been out for about a month now, but I thought some of you might enjoy this article that I decided to write. This first part focuses on the books and on the history of the fighting styles. Part 2, hopefully coming later this weekend, will look at scenes from various TV and screen adaptations.

The unusually action-heavy focus of ( Read more... )

Like the title says, folks, hope you've had a good break and the return to work/school/lounging around the house in your underwear isn't killing you too much. Today is the first SNOW DAY I have ever had in my life and although I'm technically supposed to be working, I think I will have an update (and some lunch) first ( Read more... )

Did any of you computer/engineer types, or anyone else for that matter, see this? It was a semi-fictionalised BBC drama about the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry, the cofounder of Acorn Computers and cocreator of the BBC Micro ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning I finally passed my driving test on what I tell people is either the third or the fifth attempt depending on how much I think they're going to laugh at me!

( by the numbers: some facts, figures and history to illustrate just how much I sucked at this whole thing )

It's the end of an era - Yahoo, who bought out Geocities before the dotcom bubble burst, is shutting the service down today ( Read more... )