Systems administrator by day, blogger by night
Having watched yesterday's Apple Event in New York unveiling the next generation of iPad Pros and MacBook Airs, it was hard not to notice that the entry price points of these devices have risen - just as they have for the iPhone and MacBook Pros. Also released yesterday was a plethora of updates for iOS, [...]
With the news of a brand new BBC adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds by Peter Harness (who adapted Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - also for the BBC), I thought I'd pay a visit to the H.G. Wells statue in my hometown of Woking, where Wells wrote (and set the [...]
Ever since I watched - with bemusement - My Neighbour Totoro when it aired a few decades ago on Channel 4, I have been a big fan of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki. Totoro was fantastical, whimsical, funny and - dare I say it - wholesome. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before. And [...]
As a big fan of Japan's Studio Ghibli and Studio Ponoc anime, I came across this rather strange show through my RSS news feed and decided I had to watch it. Aggretsuko is a TV show from Netflix that's based around a character from the Sanrio, the mascot company that brought us Hello Kitty. Unlike [...]
One of the biggest problems with WordPress.com versus the self-hosted version of WordPress is that the lord high muck-a-mucks at Automattic that run everything have decreed that Google Analytics, a free stats service provided by Google, is only available to those that spend $300 per year (in one go - oh no, you can't pay [...]
Decided that I'm a bit fed up paying around £30 per month for hosting a small blog, and decided to start anew on WordPress.com which costs the same for an entire year. I'm in the process of going through and digging out a few old posts and interviews and will update this blog accordingly. May [...]
