We landed at about 23:30 and by the time we had got through immigration and collected our luggage it was after midnight before we set off on the 45-minute drive to the hotel. I knew we were staying at Le Meridian Pyramids in Giza, but I was still surprised at just how close to the… Continue reading Pyramids
Author: Dave Cross
Egypt Air
Here’s a useful tip for travellers to Egypt. Don’t use Egypt Air. As we entered the departure gate for our flight there was an extra security check. Now that’s pretty understandable given the current political situation in the area, but the problem was that the Egypt Air security guard doing the checks spoke very little… Continue reading Egypt Air
Hacking Perl in Nightclubs
I usually put stuff about Perl in my Perl blog but this is so cool that it deserves a wider audience. Alex explains how he programs Perl life on stage and gets his computer to turn the program into dance music in real time. I’ve seen him do it. It’s very impressive. More details on… Continue reading Hacking Perl in Nightclubs
First Love
Apparently the popularity of sites like Friends Reunited is being blamed for a recent rise in the divorce rate. A lot of people have a rosy impression of the first relationship they had at school or college. If they are feeling unhappy with their partner, they begin wondering what it would have been like if… Continue reading First Love
Comment Spam
Last year I wrote about the large amount of comment spam that this site was getting. Readers kindly pointed me at a couple of useless resources and over the next few months I worked through most of Yoz’s suggestions. Most of these worked for a while, but the spammers found ways round most of these… Continue reading Comment Spam
“I’ve Got My Tits Out So It Must Be True”
A very interesting piece by Tim Ireland on how Rebekah Wade has been changing Page 3 into an extension of “The Sun Says”. Apparently she thinks that Sun readers are more likely to lap up blatent propoganda if it is recast as the opinions of women with no top on. Unfortunately she’s probably right.
Not The Brightest…
More proof (if any was needed) that reality tv contestants aren’t exactly the brightest of people. “Shell” Jubin was touted as one of the cleverest people on this year’s UK Big Brother. During the course of the programme she got a first class degree in some fluffy subject. But it seems that she’s not too… Continue reading Not The Brightest…
Film/Book Tie-Ins
Occasionally (!) films based on books end up bearing little relation to the original books. A good currenty example is I Robot. I haven’t yet seen the film, but the trailers I’ve seen make it very clear that that it has almost nothing to do with Asimov’s original collection of short stories. However there must… Continue reading Film/Book Tie-Ins
Thatchers
Very happy to see that Mark Thatcher has been arrested for his part in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. He’s always been a nasty piece of work with his fingers in all sorts of dubious pies. Let’s hope the shock kills his mother.
KarmaDownload
I’ve just got a press release announcing that the music download site that I was working on earlier this year has gone live. One particularly nice thing about it is that it has absolutely no DRM at all.