May 2012
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All Change Here
As I write this it is the 9th of May, 4pm on the dot. The countryside of the English Midlands is shooting past at 125 miles per hour, the Virgin Trains Pendolino eating up the hills and crests like a particularly hungry steel caterpillar. Things have been quiet on this blog as of late, and for this I can only apologise if you’re in the habit of checking in on here every day or two (and if...
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Planet Earth Live: Great - When It's Not Live
It’s 2012, and apparently live TV is the new big thing. Whether it’s Stargazing Live or yet another sodding talent show - or something I’m told is called “football” - everything is live, live, live, and if it’s not, then it’s not live. And if it’s not live, it’s not good enough. And so enters Planet Earth Live, which combines the...
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The Precedent of The Pirate Bay's Plugging
The above image is what greets Virgin Media customers who attempt to access infamous torrent database The Pirate Bay. This past Monday, the High Court has ruled that all ISPs block the website at its root in order to prevent their customers from accessing the site and potentially downloading movies, music and games illegally, and for free. So far Virgin, Sky, Everything Everywhere, O2 and...
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GTA, Parent Style
What happens when a man runs out of blogging ideas? The answer, apparently, is that he hands his girlfriend’s mum an iPad and asks her to play Grand Theft Auto for fifteen minutes. The results, it turns out, are amusing. Lou’s mum Tina isn’t your typical GTA player, but her gaming record is actually pretty impressive. She’s a 3DS owner and frequents Skylanders as often as she goes...
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A Snot-Nosed Post on Travel Nostalgia
Whilst travelling inboard a Virgin Trains Pendolino to London in Feburary, I had something of a thirst come over me. I’d long drank the fizzy whatever I’d picked up with a sandwich and a bag of crisps, and the litre bottle on a two-for-one offer - split with Lou - was long-gone. I’m one for thirsty drinking, usually, and the train’s overpriced store was my only hope. Getting off...
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Stomach Aches and Pringles
Today’s blog comes to you from a train, as many of my blogs do. The train in question is the 13.41 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen, my ultimate destination being the early stop of Perth. The sun’s shining, I’m listening to the debut album of folksy artist Jason Myles Goss and I’m doing my best to keep a pretty heavy stomach bug at bay. I’m not one to get...
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On The "Not Afraid of Dying" Bucket List: The...
I’m not really a fan of “bucket lists”, the sort of thing a miserable person compiles when they’re looking for some sort of escape from the fact that they will, like everybody else, eventually die. People with bucket lists are the type of human being that is terrified of death and casually admits to themselves that they’ve not really done anything productive,...
