I felt like my previous post was a bit lame on the iPod, as it did sound a bit like I was just showing off for the hell of it. I wasn’t, but let’s have a little more substance this time: When you dock it to your PC, the graphic for it in iTunes comes [...]

i. I got a new iPod for Christmas. A silver 80Gb classic. This is now my fifth iPod following a 20Gb second generation, a 20Gb third generation, a 30Gb iPod Photo, and 5th Gen 60Gb iPod Video. I wonder what will be next? ii. The USA sells a variation of Cadbury’s Creme Eggs: Ornament Creme [...]

“So what do American eat for Christmas dinner then?” I got asked by a few home-folk yesterday. Well .. this! But where would be the fun in just telling you what some of the traditional American Christmas foods are, when it would be far more fun you to scrutinised these miniature JPG’s and have you [...]

I think I was either twelve or thirteen years old when somehow I realised that I wasn’t a young kid anymore, and the Christmas magic was wearing off a bit. I’d campaigned for weeks to get that Mecanno set that I’d wanted (making the step up from Lego – trying to go all mature), but [...]

A quick look back to two years ago. Nothing has changed in two years. I’ve been going through my Christmas playlist this morning, and they’re still my five favourite Christmas choons of all time. ‘Fairytale’ of course is back in the charts again this Christmas (for the fifth time), and is regularly chosen as people’s [...]

I’ve just seen a bizarre thing on TV, bizarre in it’s timing and bizarre in its effect. The Christmas special of ‘Extras‘ isn’t due to be shown in the UK until Thursday of next week (9pm on BB Cone), but it was shown here on HBO last week, and I just caught a repeat of [...]

I know I often say I’m not going to do it again, but then of course I always do, and so yes … it’s that time of the year again : Review of the Year is here. Twelve audio tracks for you to download or play online (there is no CD) which covers the 12 [...]

Hands up if you’d like a ‘Review of the year 2007′ then? [Last year]

Thanks to Ian for the prompt. No seriously – is it? It was 81F / 27C in Charleston today, and with just thirteen day to Christmas it’s apparently stupidly hot here even for this time of year. I was sweating profusely walking just the ten minutes from the local Starbucks to work this afternoon. Also, [...]