My dream
Is to fly
Over de rainbow
So high
No, actually that’s Yves La Rock’s dream (and my bloody nightmare as, in Egypt, they still think that this trick is new and interesting when everyone else stopped playing it six months ago).
My dream is that, one day, I will be able to find a [...]
That’s as in ‘fear of talking of the phone’, as taken from the famous BT Commercial:
Unless the date was written on it, I’d never have guessed that this was from 1991 – I woud have thought it the best part of a decade earlier. It really shows how adverts (and corporate [...]
In a previous posting, I was saying that I am not a great believer in nostalgia, but rather I am the opposite – ‘prestalgic‘ – having a great longing for the future. I often mope around, begrudging all these lucky kids with all their fancy toys and gadgets and millions of channels just for them [...]
I have a secret fetish. Well actually I have several, but I sure as Hell aren’t going to tell you lot about most of them!
But I will admit to having an unhealthy fascination with the contents of other people’s computers.
When I ran an e-commerce site, people would sometimes send me a screengrab of their computer to show [...]
Reading through my past few posts I can see that I come over as being one of those boring old people who like to say “things were so much better in the old days”. Which old days were these exactly? The time of the Black Death or the Dark Ages, perhaps?
This is definitely not the case [...]
After a highly nervewracking 18 hours or so not knowing if my beloved PC was going to survive, I finally got it back (after four different trips to the shop because this is Egypt and nothing ever goes smoothly – getting it back within a working day I consider a small miracle in itself).
They had [...]
Well, literally 15 minutes after making that last post (and I do mean literally – there’s nothing that irritates me more than people who use the word literally when they don’t mean literally as in “that curry was literally hotter than the sun”. Of course it wasn’t, you pillock. [Actually there is one thing that [...]
You may have noticed that in my first posting, the formatting was all screwed up at the bottom. This is not my fault. It is my computer’s. Actually that’s not true. It’s Egypt’s fault.
My computer is Latvian by birth. And a difficult birth it had too, and it’s all my fault.
I had a bit of [...]
