Last night was the final straw. I’ve long been a fan of 24. In the beginning it was seminal and ground breaking. Now? It has become a parody of itself and I’m not going to bother tuning in for season 7 (or the inevitable season 8, 9 etc). WARNING: Spoiler alert – divert your eyes [...]
Archive for May, 2007
May 22, 2007
FILM: The Golden Compass aka The Northern Lights
By benfrain in PersonalFor me, the Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman is the finest trilogy of books ever written. This December the first episode in the trilogy, ‘The Golden Compass’ (known in the UK as The Northern Lights) makes it to our cinema screens. The cast bodes well (Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, Eva Green) and they couldn’t [...]
May 22, 2007
POLITICS: The thin end of the wedge?
By benfrain in Personal, RantMy elder brother mailed me the following link British Army may turn to foreign bullets I find such a development extremely worrying. We are in the UK, after all, an island nation. Is it not bad enough that we source a vast percentage of our food from abroad (thanks to the shambolic way the current [...]
May 20, 2007
FILM/TV: When will Hollywood wise up?
By benfrain in PersonalMore and more recently I am finding the cinema a complete let-down. I simply can’t remember the last time I came away from a trip to the cinema enthused with the film I had seen. Compare this to the current crop of TV coming from the US and you can’t help but fear for the [...]
May 20, 2007
POLITICS: Long haul flights responsible for global warming on Mars
By benfrain in Personal, RantMy first question after reading this story was ‘Mmmm, How will Gordon Brown tax us for this?’ I refer to this story on the National Geographic. Evidence presented from NASA indicates that the ice caps of Mars are also melting. Of course, the obvious implications of such a discovery makes two scenarios possible… 1. Mars [...]
May 8, 2007
GPS: Starbuck Point Of Interest file (Tom Tom)
By benfrain in PersonalI made this last year and forgot to post up. It’s a Points Of Interest file (POI) for all Starbucks shops in the UK. If you have a Tom Tom GPS device just download the zip file and copy the two files (excluding the ‘readme’) onto your Tom Tom device and hey presto! Instant Latte [...]
