Archive for December, 2009

According to reports Ashton Kutcher, the most followed individual on Twitter, is thinking of closing his account. His reason? He fears that a planned Twitter TV show could encourage civilians to stalk celebrities like Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore. Whilst I obviously don’t condone stalking in any way, I have to say that this [...]

The Sun Out-Apples The iPhone

This is the must-have hand-held accessory of 2009 One of the best things about last night’s X Factor final was seeing the new ad for The Sun, created by my old friends at WCRS. Good work guys! Just found out that this was actually created by Glue. My bad. iPhone image by edans on flickr

Best Albums Of The Noughties

On Friday Absolute Radio announced the result of its song of the decade vote: shockingly the top 10 doesn’t include the Arctic Monkeys, Strokes or White Stripes but does include two songs each by The Killers & Snow Patrol, a sign that whilst the station may be excellent, the average Absolute Radio listener gets most [...]

Tied To The Noughties

A couple of my recent posts have been about the music that made up the soundtrack to the noughties, but obviously a decade is made of more than songs, even for someone as obsessed with music as me. So here’s a random list of the things that I will forever associate with the first ten [...]

About a month ago I wrote about a rather disappointing experience I had with Gaucho, the chain of Argentinian steak restaurants. To summarise what happened, I had a lovely meal there but when my jacket was brought back from the cloak-room, my iPod was missing and despite repeated telephone discussions with the manager of the [...]


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