Author: richardmapes

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Wow. Just wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much money ploughed into something quite so ridiculous in my entire life. It managed to make Flash...

My son got into the school he wanted. The results came out last night at midnight, so Sue and I found ourselves huddled around a computer screen, constantly clicking refresh and checking multiple clocks...

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...