Life I've just put the clocks back and its 10:30 again. Except that it isn't. This confuses me every year.

Gender Politics Isn't this lonely hearts advert mysterious? Any female Manchester readers interested in this offer? "Hi. I am ...

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Since it's the season, how about Building a Robotic Dalek Pumpkin ? And for the interested, Make A Cylon Jack-O-Lantern [ thanks Ian! ...

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TV Dave Sanders at Behind The Sofa suggests what might happen if the slightly annoying Owen from Torchwood met a Dalek ... "OWEN: G...

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Deepa Mehta's film Water (the concluding part of a trilogy of film that includes Earth and Fire ) was apparently an extremely controve...

Film After the brilliance of both The Virgin Suicides and Lost In Translation , I was salivating at the prospect of director Sophia Copp...

TV Like second albums, the second episode of any serial is always tricky, since it needs to stand shoulder to shoulder with the hopefull...

Computers "Grab a cup of coffee for the biggest mistake, and largest computing stroke of luck that created Microsoft, and one of the ...

Bug Is anyone else getting a cPanel logging in window when they visit this blog? It's really annoying and I can't work out what...

TV Many of the reviews I've seen of Torchwood have begun with something in the range of 'After the disappointment of Robin Hood ....

Art Despite the mishap when I visited , it's absolute tragedy that Antony Gormley's Another Place is leaving Crosby Beach . It ...

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TV It's Wednesday 18th October at 9:40 pm and I've just returned from Manchester and a High Def preview of Torchwood. Although ...

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Jobs I'm job hunting today and since I'm looking at all possibilities, I'm finding some very unusual opportunities, especially...

Bloginalia Can anyone tell how this works? adopt your own virtual pet!