Lucky Number Slevin

Having a sky+ box means I’m watching a lot more movies. The best of these is probably Lucky Number Slevin, starring Joss Hartnett, Ben Kingsley and Bruce Willis.
I don’t wish to spoil it, but if you’re a fan of thrillers and mysteries, I thoroughly recommend it.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle

Bands want slice of profit from resold gig tickets
Radiohead, Robbie Williams and Arctic Monkeys joined calls yesterday for a levy to be added to tickets resold on the web to allow musicians to claw back some of the profits made by touts and fans.
What a bunch of ingrates. Not enough to have millions in […]

Kinky Boots

I recently bought a Sky+ box, which is the greatest piece of technology I’ve owned since I got broadband. It’s just so easy to use. I’m recording anything and everything
I watched the movie Kinky Boots last night, a film inspired by the story of WJ Brooks Ltd, a shoemaker in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. I wouldn’t […]

Will Hutton on Weight

On food buying
Try to buy a remotely healthy or low-calorie meal in a station, football stadium or most pubs and restaurants and you might as well cry for the moon. It is no surprise that obesity has doubled in the past 25 years and by 2050 we will be mainly an obese society.

I didn’t start […]

The Solar Linux PC

A computer running at 1/4 of current laptop power requirements? Low enough power to run on solar power?
A company in London has come up with a small (about the size of half a dozen CDs), low power, low noise PC - the Aleutia E1. It claims to use 8 watts, considerably less than most laptops, […]