Chocolate and Vodka

Last week, I was chuffed as a small horse to be given the opportunity to talk to Nick Frost for The Podcast Network's Movie Show, and finally the interview is available for your delectation.
Apologies for the slightly crappy sound quality, especially to begin with - Skype was playing us up something chronic. To ameliorate the […]

An addendum to my post on learning pronunciation.
Break it down
A good tip for dealing with long, complicated words is to break them down into syllables, and to start at the end of the word rather than the beginning.
Let's say you're trying to learn how to say 'hunangyflogedig', which means 'self-employed' in Welsh. Don't start from […]

My good friend Jeremy lost his laptop this week, after his two year old son poured water in it because it 'looked thirsty'. With it goes his HDD and all the data on it, including the latest chapters of the book he's been writing. Like me, Jeremy is self-employed and relies on his computer for […]

This is way too cool. A page on the Hebrew Wikipedia about Celtic languages, links to my blog here because I blog in Welsh and English. Thus do I find out that my name in Hebrew is סו צ'רמן.
My friend Itamar tells me that “written Hebrew in most cases omits vowels, so it actually […]

Absolutely wonderful version of the Citroen C4 Transformer ad, which I loved. (Thanks Stereo!)

Not an event. Not a product. But an entire city: Adidas Ababa.
Can't go wrong, really.

My head has turned to mush today. 12.35pm and I've done fuck all. Oh, wait, I printed out some stuff for my new bank manager, whom I have to educate regarding this whole blogging thing. The last one told me, and I quote, “I don't understand what you're doing, and I don't see how you […]

Real 'out of office' reply received today:
I will be out of the office starting 27/04/2005 and will not return until 01/01/2010.
Wow, that's some holiday. I am way jealous.

You may remember that last year I showed a little bit of interest in a British zombie flick called Shaun of the Dead, so it probably won't surprise you to hear that when my mates Ewan and Cameron asked me if I wanted to help them interview Nick Frost for The Podcast Network's Movie Show […]

I love it when deadlines have been successfully met. Or at least, not too badly missed. That's the best bit about writing - sending stuff off into the wild where people will rip it into tiny little shreds and send it back to you in the mail with a ransom note.

Regular readers will know that I don't often have a stab at particular companies or products, but I am driven to tell you that the Zanussi Electrolux Timeline ZSF 6160 is the biggest heap of rancid dingo shit I have ever had the misfortune to have to deal with.
My parents got a new dishwasher recently […]

Best way to decompress: Eight episodes of Battlestar Galactica back to back. The new series, not the old heap of crap. Bestest sci-fi TV series, er, evah, I think.
Thanks for the DVD loan, Kate. Let's hope I don't get the bends.

I woke up again before 7am this morning, after only six hours' sleep. It's now 8am and the chances of me nodding off once more to blissful sleep are nil. (Well, it'd probably be less than blissful because my subconscious has been playing nasty tricks on me lately by making me dream that the thing […]

CVs are evil. Biographies more so. Whoever invented them should be taken outside and shot. Or maybe disembowelled. With a blunt spoon.
I don't like writing my CV. Can you tell?

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