Long time, no blog…
May 13th, 2009In case there’s anybody still reading. Apologies for lack of updates recently, I’m working hard on a new project.
Hopefully, I should you be in a position to tell more next month.
The science of comic book grammar
February 3rd, 2009Who would have thought comic book lettering and grammar were so complicated! Thankfully Nate Piekos has come to the rescue.
As Piekos puts it in the introduction: “Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique.” Darn tooting it does.
It doesn’t matter whether you last read a comic book last week or 20 years ago; these rules will all resonate with you, we just didn’t realise there were rules at the time.
Songsmith does rock classics
January 27th, 2009As loyal readers will know, I was somewhat perturbed by Microsoft’s new Songsmith software. And it appears my fears were well-founded.
Already there’s a growing group of cheeky chaps and chapettes abusing the software to create their own versions of a number of perennial rock classics. And every single note is car crash awful.
Microsoft Songsmith: Dear God, tell me this is a joke…
January 9th, 2009Following the dog’s breakfast that was Windows Vista, Microsoft has got to do something pretty special with the upcoming Windows 7. But it looks like they just don’t ‘get it’.
What Apple didn’t launch yesterday
January 7th, 2009So yesterday was Apple’s first public announcement of 2009: the annual MacWorld Expo keynote. This is the company’s launch for its new mainly consumer-based products (The Worldwide Developers’ Conference in the summer is for the more hard-core user) and saw new versions of iLife and iWork, the planned removal of all DRM on iTunes and, er, not much else really.
Next week - Sid Vicious punting Dells
January 3rd, 2009I’ve had a little break over Christmas - expanded service will return shortly.
In the meantime: here’s John Lennon flogging (extremely-important) laptops.
Shoe-gate: The Spoofs
December 17th, 2008It’s like porn for Apple geeks
December 17th, 2008Thirty years of Apple products in a little over three and a half minutes - with a Beatles cover for the soundtrack!
NSFW: What a strange advert
December 14th, 2008In case you don’t know the acronym - NSFW = Not Safe For Work. That is, if your work frowns upon the sight of naked female breasts in a Danish advert.
What will those pesky Daleks come up with next!?
December 13th, 2008Having a quiet Saturday night in, surfing Amazon to find some stocking filler presents for my daughter; a girl who’s crazy about two things - High School Musical and Dr Who.
Well, until Disney and the BBC unite to do a crossover (Zac Efron as the replacement for David Tennant perhaps?), I leave it to her Mum to get the High School Musical stuff, whilst Dad keeps her happy with all things Who.
So imagine my surprise when I came across this…