It finally occurred to me the other day that when Basil Brush referred to "dirty Gerty from number thirty", it's possible that he wasn't referring to a lack of personal hygiene...

( Read more... )

tl;dr our boiler died ( Read more... )

There's a chap at work who's the spitting image of an acquaintance at college. Doing the maths it's just possible that the chap could be the acquaintance's son. I feel old.

It occurred to me that we never actually got around to telling most folks, what with one thing and another, so... Arianne's gaining a sibling in early November.

When they first came out in this country, they cost more than my entire weekly income (I was about 7). Over the years they've come down in relative price until they're now a free snack I can get from the company freezer. So I finally had one.

Quite frankly if I'd spent my entire weekly income on one at any point in my life, I'd have been bitterly

UP until recently we've been quite happy with our monthly internet related outgoings. A friends and family rate with O2 broadband thanks to Nick and a good package on lovefilm giving us all the DVDs, BluRays and console games we needed ( Read more... )

WE had a office-event today seeing The Internship - an utterly formulaic "arrogant clever good looking team being beaten by a team of underdogs" movie. It was at least funnier than the trailer had led me to expect. While some aspects were a little inaccurate ( Read more... )

After playing Bioshock Infinite, I thought it would be interesting to play through the other 'shocks ( Read more... )

3 days after I put my new job up on linkedin and I'm already beating off recruiters with a stick. I've been here for 2.5 weeks: even if I was working for EA, that's not long enough to tell you don't like the job. And it's not as if any company would think "hey, he left google after 3 weeks. Sounds like just the sort of reliable chap we're looking ( Read more... )