The Gates, taken today at Central Park View over the great lawn, notice the frozen lake? Well the answer to that is, no. Landed at JFK International Airport this morning at 1030am local time, after the usual kerfuffle at the airport getting through passport control (can you believe that you now have to have your photograph and fingerprints taken to gain access to the United States, even from friendly nations?) we proceeded to find a taxi to take us to [...]

Breaking through the frontiers of new technology, I come to you this day from the departure lounge of Heathrow Aiport’s terminal 3, connected to a wireless hotspot on my laptop. How excellent is that? :p I haven’t used wifi outside of my own LAN before and it really is an exciting thing, for me anyway. My travelling partners (my family and Laura) think that I’m quite sad, but I say “phah!” to them :D At £5 an hour, I don’t [...]

I think that staying faithful throughout the years deserves you guys a little treat from me just before I zip to New York tonight. I have managed to rip some of the sets from the Tsunami Relief gig at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium (January 22nd 2005) to MP3 format and here they are for you to download in their entirety. Manic Street Preachers Motorcycle Emptiness You Stole the sun from my heart Empty Souls If you tolerate this (then your children [...]

Above, closed; Below, Opened Spent the morning yesterday awaiting delivery of my new toy, the second so far in February, the other, a Sanyo S750 was sent back due to the fact it was an inadequate piece of junk. Or, maybe that’s being a bit harsh. It was a good go for Sanyo’s first mobile phone, but they definitley need to put it through an “annoying features” screening before releasing any future models. Anyway, back to my original point. I [...]

Seperated at birth, can’t you see? Just when I thought I would never find anything weirder in this already fucked up world, I learned today that the name Milhouse, that of Bart Simpsons best friend as I’m sure you’re already aware, is not actually just a made up name, it is infact the middle name of the beloved traitor, former president of the yoonited states, Richard Nixon. Richard, Milhouse, Nixon. Bloomin ‘eck. Also, on another weirder, slightly more disturbing note, [...]