AppleCare?
The arguments against: it’s £200. I’m almost swayed already. But hang on… It’s 23% of the purchase price of the middle of the range MacBook. It’s £100 per year for […]
Month: November 2006
Happy Birthday, Doctor
Yes, it’s 43 years ago tonight that the an An Unearthly Child was broadcast. The 30th and 40th anniversaries of Doctor Who passed whilst the show was off air, but […]
MacBook C2D First Impressions
Well, MacBook first impressions, really, since I’m not doing anything particularly 64-bit here. Rather, I’m comparing the G3 iBook with the MacBook. Unsurprisingly, it’s a lot faster. Top 3 Things […]
Casino Royale: A New Beginning, Business As Usual?
Before the title was known, this project was referred to as Bond 21. It is the 21st film to be produced by a Broccoli, and the 21st film to feature […]
MacBook Self Portrait
It’s arrived.
Bond’s Greatest Hits
Channel 4 did one of their “greatest” countdowns, purely on Bond themes, on Saturday night. The programme was rather amusing, with a selection of Bond artists and rejected singers bitching […]
Casino Royale: This Never Happened to the Other Fellas
When Sean Connery strolled onto the screen in 1962’s Dr No, James Bond was already a popular fictional character. Behind the scenes, Fleming had been unconvinced by the casting, but […]
Greene King Calls Time on Harveys at The Lewes Arms
Greene King is a company well known and loathed by Lewes people for their habit of buying up pubs and then stopping them selling beer from our local brewery, Harveys. […]
Casino Royale: The Adaptation
It’s a while since I read the book, and I’d always thought they couldn’t do that scene (with the chair with the cutout seat) apart from anything else. It’s also […]
Casino Royale: First Impressions
Bond has rebooted. All I will say for now is that this is, in my opinion, the best Bond film for 25 years. Visit Little Storping over the next few […]
“The Invasion” Animated Episodes Review
This is the first Doctor Who serial I’ve owned, and I’m quite excited, so forgive me if I review it twice. I haven’t finished watching it yet, but I wanted […]
Craig Murray on “The State Within”
When Alex Jennings character James Sinclair, an outspoken former ambassador, walked into the first episode of The State Within I thought “that’s Craig Murray”. So it turned out, did Craig […]