
And all day long we sing a happy tune…
Sesame Street, man. The early 70s (and by extension, re-runs in the mid-late 70s onwards) was a helluva time for educational TV, cos nobody really had any idea what it was. Sesame Street churned out some amazing stuff – and not least among it, the Capital I song. Who are these people? Why do they…

Ramen Rankings
I love ramen. One of my life’s side-quests is to find the perfect bowl. This is my attempt at tracking and ranking the places I’ve had it. Bristol, unless otherwise indicated. The Gold Collection Kanada Ya (London, Central St Giles) Be still, my beating heart. A place I used to go for coffee back in…

Web Development? Sure. Server? Turns out, not so much…!
Having recently changed jobs to work for a fairly sizable UK-based web hosting company, I found myself considering my web hosting setup. The bulk of the websites I tool about with in my spare time are WordPress, just because of the sorts of things going on on those websites. The whole “personal website” journey for…

Work! Consume! Die!
There’s no doubt that Frankie Boyle is one of the sharpest and simultaneously bluntest comic minds of our time – however this book genuinely read like someone had thrown together a list of topics and then collated a bunch of his one liners and mashed them together to form chapters. Perhaps it’s conditioning from the…
