Monthly Archive: February 2016

How should you feel when you lose your job? Obviously, if you get fired because you exposed the company to a multimillion dollar law suit, or punched a fellow worker in an argument over...

Written in 1983, The Running Man by Stephen King envisions a dark future where society is kept pacified and entertained by broadcasts of criminals being hunted by trained assassins. The reward for participation is...

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented skiing. Or rather, he introduced it to Switzerland, from whence it spread to the rest of Europe. Prior to that, it was...

I had hoped to put up some full posts this week, despite being on holiday. Unfortunately, I am coming to realise that I have come to take broadband for granted, like running water or...

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } I know. I’ll just do a quick side project. It won’t take long and the end results will be awesome. It’s not like I’m pushed for time...

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } I’ve just finished the Martian. Great book. I can tell it was a great book because I was disappointed when it ended. You can spend a lot...

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Genre is a funny thing. Authors hate it; publishers love it. No one wants to be pigeonholed as just another brit-lit, urban noir or body horror writer,...

Just after Christmas I went to the cinema to see the new Star Wars. I won’t spend too long dwelling on this, except to say it was awesome and very much worth the 33...