Walking is fun. It gets you from A to B, and you don’t have to pay increased fuel duty. Last Sunday I got to have extra fun walking thanks to the City of Bradford Metropoliton District Council – specifically, the Countryside division thereof – which organises guided walks around Bradford’s greener bits. Described as the [...]

Having been disappointed at missing out on buying the major Korean animated film Sky Blue – the chap in CEX was unable to find where they’d put the discs – I treated myself to a copy on Amazon. When it arrived, I was thrilled to see that the two-disc collectors’ edition comes with a “limited [...]

It seems that Microsoft is scoring a bit win in the netbook sector, with claims doing the rounds that Windows XP has gone from a mere 10% of the market in February last year to 96% now. As someone who uses – and likes – Ubuntu on most of his hardware, this is a surprise.  [...]

My laptop is now officially Powered by Ubuntu, thanks to System 76 and the Linux Emporium. To snag yourself some free Ubuntu stickers, simply pop a self addressed envelope across to: The Linux Emporium Bridge House 17a Maybrook Road Sutton Coldfield Birmingham B76 1AL UK They’ll drop a pack of four by return of post.  [...]

I’ve been fighting my new WordPress theme this morning in order to get the darn thing to validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional – I didn’t aim for Strict as I use the “target=_new” functionality in a lot of existing links which would need to be updated.  After fixing a bunch of problems around the place, [...]

Just a quick update to reassure people that not only am I not dead, I still haven’t given up on a life of pedantry. The latest entry in the Hall of Apostrophe Abuse comes courtesy of Wickes in Bradford, which managed to forbid a trolley from taking something past the nicely laminated sign – although [...]