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One Imperial Hamilton
On the 29th of January 2016, I posted this to facebook: I have, by the force of Peer…
The thing about ad-blocker popups
I’ve been, in the past, a firm distruster of ad blocking software. I still am, to a large…
Commonly Known As Dirk
You are speaking with Svlad, commonly known as “Dirk” Cjelli, currently trading under the name of Gently for…
Ripping TV Yarns
I’m in the process of ripping some boxsets of DVDs to Plex, and I thought I should probably…
Age of Ultron
There was a movie. It's... Um.
Let's start with this: The following review contains spoilers for Age of Ultron. They start after the following paragraph, which is why you need to click the link to read the rest.
Right, so my problem with AoU is that it's a comic book event series. Its purpose is to make people need to go and see it to wrap up the past and understand the future episodes. It's the exact kind of Age Of Secret War On Ultimate Earth cross-francise bullshit that generally kicks me off any super-hero comic series I've started to get into. Suddenly, in order to follow the arc of a character I need to buy twelve comics across nine series, five of which my local shop doesn't carry. The actual plot of the movie doesn't really maintain its own momentum.
Week Nine – it’s better than bad, it’s good
Quiet work week, so we’ll skip that. Decided that I’d had enough of print statements, and moved both…
The Hobbit: The first bit: The review
or “The reason it shouldn’t be called The Hobbit“ Today, I went on an adventure. A mysterious source…
Fit to Print – The Newsroom Season 1
The first television series I actually cared about was The West Wing. I enjoyed it enough to watch…
Cursed, apparently
Of all the tales told on these islands, few are as strange as that of William Palmer. Cursed,…
SOPA for Brits
So, Wikipedia is shutdown today. Reddit, ICHC and a large number of other sites will be showing their…