Handy items for every Real Man(tm)'s toolbox: Kamasa chubby ratchet screwdriver; six double-ended bits built into the handle, and small enough to go into your pocket. And it doesn't break after the first turn. This partly assuages the grief over my late, much lamented £2.50 Woolies ratchet set. (More... »

Regular writing and photographing, amongst much else, are currently on hold - even more so than previously - due to pace of life and a corresponding lack of investment. In the meantime, we are currently pursuing a separate personal project with more regular bloggage elsewhere.... »

Much as a death is always a sad occasion (sniff), BB is looking forward to hearing "Teenage Kicks" by the Undertones again (and again, and again...), just to remind ourselves how much we hated John Peel's latterly eclectic but uniformly dire taste in music. Of course, we don't get... »

Just added, the Nostalgic guide to Aber pubs, a lament for those drinking dens of yore and how they've been steadily eroded or ruined ("modernised"). "Had to leave to get back to Swansea in time, so couldn't go to see whether the pubs are the same too," said Telsa... »

BB would just like to congratulate all the main political parties taking part in the upcoming European and local elections. All of them have recently made significant contributions to environmental improvement, collectively making the biggest difference ever through party-political means. If anybody has more electoral leaflets that they would... »

He may be KBE now but to us, he'll always be Bill Gates, Cunning Ubermeister of NT. It's amazing the lengths to which some people will go to get Microsoft to fix their Windows problems. Presumably, Alan Cox righteously (and rightly) declined an honour. Because obviously, you'd rather offer... »

BB blames the BBC for our drink problem. Every xmas, we look forward to nothing more than eating and drinking in front of the telly. Recently though, we've had to start drinking a hell of a lot more to make up for the crap we choose not to watch... »

Having endured Matrix Reloaded, I'm strongly less inclined to watch Matrix Revolutions. The fact that it features the Meringue-ian again, the comedy foreigner apparently modelled on Herr Flick ("of the Gestapo"), is already one strike against it. That it features Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, is directed by the... »

Remember that the BBC's Big Read web site is open to allow you to vote for your favourite book out of the "top 21". Remember too that you can vote multiple times (for random choices?), preferably using different PCs, and that you can completely falsify all the demographic information,... »

"Gotcha, yer coffin-dodging little bastard!" - Grim Reaper... »

I tried drugs, admits drugs minister I tried education, admits education minister (though we doubt this). I tried internet, admits technology minister. I tried leading, admits Prime Minister.... »

BB is praying desperately that very soon, TIm Henman will finally achieve the result he desperately deserves at Wimbledon after years of trying, the moment his entire career has led him toward, the ultimate goal that the whole country cannot wait any longer to share - the realisation that... »

From a news item about the increasing incidence of job candidates losing offers after their prospective employers run background checks on the Internet: "In a third case, a senior sales executive seeking a move also ended up getting the sack after boasting to the Friends Reunited site, set up... »

Barry Manilow took a wrong turn when getting out of bed and broke his nose by hitting the wall. In other rock news, Mick Jagger has suffered a split lip and Pete Townsend sprained his wrist.... »

...So we wanted to go on holiday, so I went to Yahoo! Travel (with an extra flourish on the mouse to match the !) and searched the Airline Network site for cheap deals. And, finding one that was suitable, I filled in the form asking for a personal quote,... »

Well you're wrong.... »

Edwin Starr has died of a heart attack at 61. Rumours that he was watching the news at the time are unconfirmed. "War can't give life, it can only take it away!"... »

Hard to believe that Mrs Doubtfire could be shown on TV, or indeed anywhere in public view, once let alone repeated as the BBC did on Saturday. The major surprise is that the end credits are not accompanied by a distant, reverberating BLAMM! as everyone who had anything to... »

, reader number eight!! ...Why are we bothering?... »

SOAP our RSS pipe and put your access point over the portal, baby! Watch as we commoditize the info-commons with XML-parsed transforms! Why-fi when you can metafilter your streaming Vorbis peers via XML-RPC?! Yeah baby, yeah! Honestly, it beats us how some people earn a living. What is this job... »

, a city built, as everyone knows, by the Jefferson Starship out of "rock 'n' roll". Afterwards, there was a Latin American recital, broadcast live on radio, by Mr. Marconi.... »

, Empty Spaces is an online journal. So we'd better not disappoint: Crawled out of bed at 11am, rowed with mum - parents SUCK! Went to Foxy's yesterday evening, LOL! Wore my new red Docs! Mike and Den were there! I told Den that his shoes were kewl and he... »

recently tackled Colgate-Palmolive's attempt to do a Jonestown.... »

Dragon attacks Sharon Stone's husband When's it out? Is it certificate 18?... »