Its been ages since I last updated this blog but I thought I’d take a little bit of a time out to update the site about a topic I feel quite passionate about. Recently on Twitter I noticed a link floating about to a petition regarding Palm Oil, now I really don’t like Palm Oil [...]

When I was studying for my undergraduate degree I read one of Noam Chomsky’s books. I was impressed by the well thought out arguments and I’ve always been interested in new media philosophy. If you’ve never heard of Noam Chomsky hes widely known as an American linguist, philosopher and political activist. Born in 1928 as [...]

For those who don’t know Slashdot is a news technology site which reports solely on ‘nerdy’ computer things. I came across an article yesterday published on the site about Twitter. Twitter is whats known as ‘micro-blogging’, in that your limited to a specific number of characters so theres only so much to be said in [...]

Recently I’ve been cleaning out my room and like many people I have a rather large collection of VHS videos. At the time they were really expensive items that were the latest technology, today we look back on them as a relic of pre-disk reading technology. They are by modern standards bulky tapes of a [...]

For a long time now I’ve been the owner of a SNES, sadly my particular console was abandoned when the Playstation came around since then its been out of use. The other day dusted it off and tried it out, sadly no luck the black screen of death stared back at me from my TV. [...]

I’ve been a blogger for a long time – since I was in high school so before 2003 by that point I’d blogged for at least 3 years or more. I might be inclined to say that I’m a bit of a veteran blogger. Back when I was in school very few people I knew [...]

If you live in the UK its pretty difficult not to have noticed the controversy surrounding Google Streetview. Streetview was released in the UK a few weeks ago with the intention of giving users a kind of 360 degree tour of some major cities. People in the UK have always valued their privacy ever since [...]

Ok so here comes my inevitable Watchmen review. Depending on how well you know me one of my loves in life is comic books. I’ve always enjoyed them from when I was a kid reading the Beano to an adult reading Manga or Graphic Novels. When I was in University I wrote my dissertation on [...]