Category: Piffle

  • Book Mockup Templates
    Book Mockup Templates

    Bored today, so I’ve been making silly images. I found the templates here.

  • A Khan Of Coffee
    A Khan Of Coffee

    So, you wander downstairs in need of coffee, feeling lethargic, and not really having enough energy to start the day. You make a nice cup of coffee. You lug it all the way back upstairs to the office and slump into the chair, ready for a day of keyboard staring and unwriting. You wait. Ready…

  • Matt. Damon.
    Matt. Damon.

    I like learning how to do new things. That’s how I taught myself web building, which lead to learning Flash, and then PHP. It’s also why I bought a lathe and learned how to make wooden bowls, which in turn lead me into box making. This week, I am going to try to build a…

  • Network Family Trees
    Network Family Trees

    I like it when an innocuous comment on a show makes me go and do some research. This time it was Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock, when he said he remembered when the Bravo network used to show operas. That makes sense, when I think about it. Bravo is a great name for a network…

  • Killer Of Hogs’ Cornflakes
    Killer Of Hogs’ Cornflakes

    Chatting to a friend about the etymology of names, and how it’s quite common to name a character, then look up their name and discover that the meaning of the name reflects a characteristic of said character, he came across this fun fact. Kellogg, you know, like the bloke who done the cereals to stop…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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