We’re heading into the home stretch counting down the days till the World Cup in South Africa now and I’m starting to get pretty pumped for it.  What better time to do a lazy weekend blog post linking to an awesome Nike World Cup commercial? Enjoy your weekend! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLG6jh23yE[/youtube]

“They trust me.  Dumb fucks” – Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO. Facebook privacy, or lack of it, is a bit of a hot topic at the moment.  Once the darling of social networking media, Facebook and its creator Mark Zuckerberg have come under increasing criticism for its lax approach to user privacy and the difficulty in closing a Facebook account.  Not ...

I woke up this morning to read the following messages on my Facebook account. Look’s like Britain has itself a new Conservative leader! Oh well, I guess Pat’s happy.

There is something very broken with the EPL. about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck – Mike’s Twitter Feed Good, so it wasn’t just me that felt complete ambivalence towards Chelsea and the general state of the EPL.  I can’t remember the last time we had a season loaded with so many 6-0’s, 7-1’s, 8-0’s.  The gulf between the top teams ...

Not sure what kind of fantasy they had in mind when they made the character Vanille.

So with a Mexican stand-off in place between Brown and Cameron, and the election results left gridlocked in a hung parliament, its time for everyone to pony up to Nick Clegg and see if they can woo him into a coalition that will ultimately decide who governs the UK.  We could be talking about a Progressive Coaltion here folks.  As ...

Last week I received a Facebook message out of the blue from Kolitha who told me he was going to be in town over the weekend.  It was the first time I’d have a chance to catch up with my old flatmate from university since 2003.  Jesus, had it really been seven years? It was great to see the guy.  ...

The Halo Reach multiplayer beta was made available to the public today so I thought I would download it and give it a go. For the uninitiated, Halo Reach is the final Halo game to be made by Bungie before they move onto bigger and better things.  Its also the first time they’ve entirely overhauled the multiplayer component of the ...

One of the best things we did last month was buy a new couch. Look at this magnificent bastard right here.  Our old couch was really getting me down towards the end.  The cushions kept sliding out from under your arse so that no matter what posture you started in, you’d end up slouched with your butt cheeks hanging over ...

What you see here is an empty apartment. Thats right.  For the first time in five years, Jen and I are living by ourselves again.  I think we both had an idea that we wanted to do this at the start of the year.    We’ve enjoyed living with Allan and Jules, then with Dominic and Sarah after that, but ...