10 Video Games I’ve Loved Part 1

I've recently been watching Dara O'Briain's Go 8 Bit on Dave, where comedians come in and play computer games. It's been a real nostalgia kick as they've played games I used to love like Sensible Soccer, Snake and Tekken 2.  Inspired by this I thought I'd write about games I loved over the years, and …

The Old Man and the Horsea

I was walking along when it appeared. Bursting out of nowhere, there it was before me. I was going to catch it, after all that is my real test. A Horsea. One throw and it was mine. I resisted the urge to do a mini fist pump and walked on, the early evening still bright …

New Things: Pokemon Hunting

Like a lot of folks I got caught up in the Pokemon hype of the late nineties. I'd watch it on SMTV Live and collected the cards, and when the movie was released my friend Dan and I went to see it, pretending that we were merely escorting my youngest sister. After that I lost …

Book Review: So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

This is a fantastic and fascinating read from Ronson, a writer I've admired for a while (in the past he's covered conspiracy theories and the business of mental health) and it sees him tackle a serious problem of the social media age, public shaming and Twitter mobs. Ronson begins with the story of a spam …

Awkward moments: Wet balls

Like any rational person with a basic understanding of hygiene and germs, I don't like touching toilet flushes. I get why we need them, but imagining the other hands and what might have been on them touching the same handle is gross. So I applaud that anonymous genius who invented the hands free flush. You …

All washed up at 28?

I've written before about Tinder, the dating app, and how if I wasn't lucky enough to have MWG in my life I'd still avoid it. While all dating sites rely on pictures for people to , Tinder seems more superficial than most, and I ain't exactly the kinda dude who gives a great first impression. Anyway, …

Snaps and snooping

There's been a bit of an online kerfuffle this week after the Snapchat app launched it's new update. The photo sharing app, which allows you to send short video clips and photos which vanish after viewing (unless you screen shot them, which seems against the principle of the app to me), had previously included a …

Flipping Hell

I realize that this comes straight from the "First World Problems" files, apologies, but it's my blog and I live in the first world so these are my problems. This week my mobile phone broke. I turned it off at work and then it wouldn't turn back on. Apparently the power button had broke (I've …

Gig Review: A Day To Remember at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena

It's always a little awkward going to a gig of a band you're not really a fan of. I've done it a couple of times (Slayer, Haduken, Gallows) but in those cases I've heard a fair amount of their stuff, dug it and done pre-gig listening. With A Day To Remember it was different, I'd …

Oh, snap!

My HTC (Hated Tech Crap) phone doesn't allow me many apps due to it having the memory of a goldfish, but one of the few I do have is Snapchat. This allows you to send photos to your friends which then get automatically deleted after a few seconds. It's clearly designed for sexting but it's …