Universal City, Los Angeles, California: I am in the lobby of the Universal City Hilton, wandering around looking for its seafood restaurant. As usual, I am dressed in black, albeit with a blue T-shirt on underneath my black cardigan. Yes, I am wearing a cardigan; it is the middle of what the local news stations […]
Read MoreRemember this experiment in search-engine-ology? PooterGeek is already 6th highest Google hit on the entire planet for the phrase “naked Harry Potter” and for the phrase “Charlotte Church nude“. The first hit recorded hit in the logs from someone searching for “Charlotte Church nude” was last weekend—could have been a PooterGeek reader, though.
Read MoreUnlike most of the anti-war, anti-globalization, anti-trade, anti-science wool-heads who clutter our Leftish press these days with their inane polemics, Bob Geldof manages to combine a passion for improving life in Africa with the complete absence of ideology. He also does something real about his passion. In comparison with Geldof, the Naomi Kleins, George Monbiots […]
Read MoreYou’ve got to hand it to the Wachowski brothers, they know how to maximise their franchise. Leasy kindly lent me her copy of The Animatrix so that I could enjoy the latest offshoot of the original Matrix movie without lining the Wachowskis’ pockets further. (So far I’ve paid to watch The Matrix itself in New […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Fiona Hood (second from left in this picture), the woman who named this ‘Blog, on getting a First! Viv, Neil and I have already ordered the spicy potatoes for your next outing with the Mill Road Massive.
Read MoreAmir Taheri explains to the hard-of-thinking the single most important lesson of the New World Order: don’t fuck with the USA.
Read MoreThis made me laugh out loud. There was a debate on the geek news site Slashdot earlier this week about ageism in information technology hiring. “Gen X-ers“, like me, are reaching their 30s and people don’t want to take them on as programmers, preferring “younger minds” instead. One thoughtful and informed comment on this was […]
Read MoreAre you a patriotic American? Do you want to express your love for your country in a material way? Do you find the idea of flying the Stars-and-Stripes a little dull? Try this site. Hands off the “Socks the Cat Wristwatch“. It’s mine.
Read MoreToday one of my virtual colleagues linked to an article reporting on a study suggesting that computer use was not a direct cause of carpal tunnel syndrome. At the same site I couldn’t help noticing the link to a D-I-Y online test for depression. The test is hilariously obvious, so much so that it reminded […]
Read MoreNo blogging this weekend because I’ve been slowly constructing the PooterGeek archive and working on a new version of Claire’s Web pages [currently broken: not my fault, honest] for her book Loose Lips. [Have I mentioned it enough times, now?] Yesterday evening, it briefly reached about 1400 in the amazon.com bestseller chart. It can go […]
Read MoreLittle Lisa is good at accents. Mike, who’s from Ireland, remains non-plussed, however, by the way she frequently slips into Oirish when she encounters him. How apt, then, that when Mike was introduced to a new PhD student of oriental origin yesterday he should be the one to fill a lull in conversation by asking […]
Read MoreThanks to Adam Woolfe for alerting me to this sensible and passionate article about the Aqaba talks written by a Palestinian human rights campaigner in Ha’aretz. Thanks to Claire Berlinski for this one about the expansion of democracy. (I should have posted it two days ago.) It’s one of those arguments that sounds crazy at […]
Read MoreI had a conversation with two unlikely PooterGeek “fans” at lunch today—I mean yesterday: I fell asleep and have just woken up after midnight. (Hello Adam and Martin, by the way.) They were intrigued by the weird success of my Webpages with search engines. This ‘Blog entry is an experiment born of that conversation. I […]
Read MoreJust look at the awful consequences when those imperialist bastards send their troops to the Third World in clear violation of international law. (If your preferences for BBC News are set to “outside the UK” rather than “UK” and you go to the BBC News front page there’s currently a link to a video of […]
Read MoreWho reads my Webpages? Disappointed people, mainly… I am responsible for the fourth highest hit if you search UK pages for “anti-capitalist Weblog” at Google UK. What’s more, because I made a flip remark in my old gallery pages about one of my colleagues looking like said film star, it’s also on the first page […]
Read MorePlease don’t ask me how I came to be browsing “www.pacemakerclub.com“. Running down the right-hand side of their front page they have links to their readers’ emails, to which other readers can reply. Each link is the title of the respective message. Along with “Want to use heart monitor when running” (1 reply) and “Weird […]
Read MoreThe number one declining Google search in April 2003 was: “Al Jazeera“. The number three declining Google search was: “Michael Moore“. All the dirt is at Google Zeitgeist.
Read MoreGod Forbid are a five-piece heavy metal band from Connecticut, USA. They have a token white member, but otherwise bring a new meaning to the phrase “black music”. Christ-on-a-bike, they’re extreme, but they can obviously play. Despite their technical competence I stopped listening to their free MP3s when one of my fillings was shaken loose.
Read MoreDad, if it hasn’t already been reported on that infernal televisual contraption, you should print this one out for mum—it combines bingo, grannies, and a great opportunity for righteous indignation.
Read MoreAmazon.co.uk recommended this to me today. I’m tempted.
Read MoreI missed this one last weekend. The BBC interviewed “experts” to argue the case over war in Iraq retrospectively. The interviews are available on video, but in each case I have linked to the transcripts. In the pro corner: Ann Clywd, left-wing Labour MP and human rights campaigner; Wyn Bowen, lecturer at King’s College London […]
Read MoreThere are a lot of things I love about Britain. Some of them are a surprise even to me. I remember returning from work trips to California, Arizona, and southern Italy, a year or so ago and being overwhelmed, by comparison, with the green soft beauty of this country’s landscape. One thing I hate about […]
Read MoreBook lovers, pre-order this novel now. Twice. Update: embedded link to the Newsday review courtesy of the author. (See comment linked below.) Is it just me or do most of the recommended titles in that article read like the names of porn videos?…
Read MoreBack from my parents’ where I participated in a UN-inspired “computing for food” swap. They gave me lunch and dinner; I removed 1496 copies of the Klez worm and installed a virus checker. I also took photos, but they won’t let me post them to my Website. Protest now, PooterGeek readers!
Read MoreEvery few months I have to go into a “sports” clothing shop, push my way through terminally unathletic people in Russell Athletic sweat shirts, step around pot-bellied blokes in Nikes who are unlikely to “just do it” or (anything else) any time soon and ask that question, the question that will penetrate the cookie-cutter hip-hop […]
Read MoreEverybody hates us; we don’t care.
Read MoreI spent yesterday wandering around Cambridge with Chris and his equally funny and fun girlfriend Lynn. I bought overpriced fudge from the fudge shop, took photographs of them in front of great lumps of English heritage and we browsed antiques. We had a bostin’ time. They also nudged me into a CD fair where I […]
Read MoreErin Noteboom is a thirtysomething former physicist who now writes full time. Recently she won the CBC Canada Literary Award for her series of Second World War poems Ghost Maps. Several are excellent; a few made me wince. She uses simple words powerfully. As well as her static site, she keeps a writer’s notebook.
Read MoreYesterday evening an attractive, smart woman took me out for dinner. Then we went to see The Matrix: Reloaded. I came home and stayed up until 1:30am… …listening to a documentary on the World Service about the current state of Afghanistan (or, as the BBC have it on their Website summary of the programme, “Afghansitan“). […]
Read MoreI’ve been too tied up with computer problems this past couple of nights to post anything to the ‘Blog. How did I fix them? Well, non-geeks might as well stop reading this entry now. I fried the Windows partition table on my Win98 drive. Running PartitionMagic 4.0 under DOS I was told to follow the […]
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