Nickster’s View

I too am all World Cup fevered and can’t wait for the start on Friday. I’m not much of a football shirt wearer (apart from a Spurs shirt at WHL) but I couldn’t help myself….

COME ON ENGLAND!!
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The idea that 9/11 was some sort of conspiracy hadn’t even entered my mind until a couple of weeks ago when I was around at a friend’s house. He had bittorrented some conspiracy documentaries that had him convinced, or at least seriously questionning that 9/11 was an act of terrorism by Al-Qaeda - and […]

Are you sick and tired of having to endure deep fried burritos?
Is Chiquitos the height of mexican or tex-mex cuisine that you can find?
Would you rather find a decent place where you didn’t have to endure a stag night pounding cheap tequilas from the bottle?
Are you gagging for a decent burrito? some fresh soft […]

Just for the record, David Blaine is not a magician any more. He is not an illusionist either. He’s some form of weird endurance-cum-performance artist (cum performance? yikes!). His stunts are definitely entertaining and I admire the fact that someone is apparently pushing human endurance barriers. Heck, sitting in a […]

According to the BBC website, Microsoft plans on having shipped 10 million units of Xbox 360s by the time Sony’s PS3 is launched in November.
This announcement literally the day after Sony announces the price and specification for their 3rd generation console, and with an unexpected visit from Bill himself to deliver the news. Uncanny […]

My friend Neil and I both own full sets of Star Wars stormtrooper armour. It has taken literally months to get together all the parts and accessories needed to pull off the look of an authentic stormtrooper, so after having bought the armour in December last year it has taken us until today to […]

A while back I started videoing my rides to prove to my girlfriend just how crazy London’s roads had become. What started out as a fact finding mission turned into a hobby, moving from a Nokia 6630 wedged in my lid to a proper high res helmet camera setup. I’ve caught the good, […]

I’ve been a bad bad boy. I’ve neglected my blog, and whilst I know that there’s the square root of zero people reading it, I enjoy writing it. Sometimes it’s a rant, othertimes quiet introspection. Today, it’s just the realisation that I’ve not blogged anything for a while and it’s about time […]

I have been posting on David Gilmour’s blog for a few months now, being a total devotee to both David Gilmour’s music and that of Pink Floyd. David is playing a pre-release gig in Blackfriars to 600 people on Tuesday…a preview of the new album, “On An Island”. They have given 75 pairs […]

When I was on my batchelors degree course I had to come up with a final year project idea. All my ideas were considered too big for a batchelors and I had to trim one down a lot to be able to do it. When I was on my masters degree course I […]

If you’re reading this because you googled me from my comments on the BBC news pages regarding Cannabis and mental health, please be aware that the BBC cut my comment short. The full, unabridged version (!) submitted to the BBC was :
“I’m sick and tired of all this cannabis fearmongering. I’m in my […]

1) Goto CES AND the Adult Entertainment Expo. Die a happy man.
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…you keep getting interrupted nightly at 5am when Norton AV kicks off…
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This whole marijuana/cannabis debate in the UK has really got under my skin. There’s so much hypocrisy and half truths/myths about it, especially in light of raging alcohol issues here.
What has set me off today is the fact that GW Pharmaceuticals, a UK Home Office licensed researcher into non-smoked medications derived from cannabis, has […]

I’m outraged. Today we have the BBC and the Government making all kinds of noise about the ill effects of using cannabis, but on the same day, nay same site, there are headline stories of Charles Kennedy admitting to alcohol problems and of increased incidents of liver cirrhosis due to alcoholic consumption. […]

I know - blew my tiny little mind too. MS Messenger has a number of tabs down the left hand side, and today the xbox 360 tab has been replaced by a PSP tab. First MS invests in Apple, now they’re promoting Sony products. Something is _wrong_ in the universe or a […]

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 […]