Watercress
This is one of my favourite vegetables. When I dug my pond, a couple of years back, a friend told me you could grow watercress just by throwing it in […]
Potatoes!
My back “garden” (yard) is pretty small. I want to grow vegetables. With my pond, pear tree, roses, fruit and herbs, there’s not really room for pototatoes. But fresh (I […]
Spoiling Things
A regular reader of this blog is so fanatical about avoiding “spoilers” that he will not only avoid reviews but won’t read the blurb on DVDs or books (he’ll be […]
Upgrade Coming Up
If funny things start to appear on the site this afternoon, it’s because I’m (finally) upgrading to WordPress 2.1 “Ella”. Bear with me, normal service will resume as soon as […]
“Gridlock” Review
A superb small-scale episode, written to perfectly fit the 45 minutes slot, nicely paced, with a great sense of atmosphere, building to a satisfying conclusion. And at the same time […]
Smith, Jones, Shakespeare & The Robot Parrot
Time to catch up with all the new Who… Smith and Jones The opener benefited from being told from the viewpoint of another character (ie not the Doctor). This has […]
News in Brief
I’ve been away from an internet connection for a week and getting all my news the old fashioned way – in print. It took two days from finding out there’d […]
Sheep Dip
Shaun the Sheep gets a repeat from Sunday at 6.00 on the CBBC channel if you missed it first time round. Shaun first appeared in Wallace and Grommit’s A Close […]
Brighton: Apple Premium Reseller on Saturday
Following the news that Brighton is to get an Apple Store, I’ve just had a card from Cancom announcing that their Brighton store will become a premium reseller on Saturday, […]
Let The Hacking Begin…
So, someone’s already hacked the Apple TV to add Quicktime plugin Perian (an advantage, I suggested, of the Mac Mini). This uses the fact the the aTV runs Quicktime, something […]
New Apple Store In Brighton’s Churchill Square?
A while ago, a Little Storping reader told me he’d been told in an Apple shop that an Apple Store would open in Brighton “soon”. Macworld is now reporting that […]
Apple TV vs Mac Mini
With the Apple TV finally shipping, the first review has appeared, and the criticism centre around what the Apple TV won’t do, rather than what it can’t do. That’s to […]