Nickster’s View

I’ve just read a story on the BBC website about Farris Hassan, a 16 year old american of Iraqi descent. Hrrrm, for some reason my editing controls aren’t showing under OSX, so here’s the URL : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4569712.stm
This is clearly a bright, passionate kid who is motivated and driven to explore. Personally I think […]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (10 years, Liverpool), I was a student at Portsmouth Uni. We mudded frequently and found ways to spod from ever increasingly blatant places (library terminals in particular), much to the angst of the sysadmin. Some time in ‘95 we the Fratton posse from […]

My university laptop has died and by a remarkable turn of luck my mother gave me her old Mac Mini, so here I am working on My First Mac ™ and my first intro to OSX.
I have seen a marked shift in platform use from my social network over the past 5 years, with many […]

It’s nice to know that STILL after all these years, no-one appears to have created a global exception list for certain nouns or countries that countain obscene words within them, such as Scunthorpe. It was whilst changing my xbox live motto to something a bit, well…spicier….that I decided to find out what I could […]

When I pay money to goto the cinema to see a film, in the very least it had better be close to what it purports to be. The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a perfect example of why Hollywood and the film industry is seeing declining cinema audiences, and why the film industry is […]