Poundland Chris Evans arrives in town with his adorable daughter in tow and sets up in a local dilapidated mansion. He asks the local contractor to recommend a good interior decorator who just happens to be his ex! Who doesn't know he's a billionaire dad or something. Will they get back together by the end of the...

"Greenwitch", the third part of Susan Cooper's beloved "The Dark is Rising" Sequence – marking the halfway point – sees us back on the Cornish coast with our intrepid city mice; Simon, Jane, and Barney, as they embark on another jolly hockeysticks cucumber sandwiches rip-roaring adventure. What Cooper has done...

A very silly film about a pampered pet cat and a gruff stray dog team up to save the world from an army of evil robots. Everything is pretty cliched here; the hero is an "I don't need nobody" kind of rugged individualist who learns the power of friendship…or something. The world of cinema has gone so hard on the...

There's an old episode of "South Park" ("Smug Alert", Season 10, 2006) where Gerald Broflovski is driving a Toyota Prius and loving the smell of his own farts. That is how I feel about a lot of people these days showing off their "AI" creations. Look what I made! they exclaim with pride, ignoring the fact they...

With the greatest respect to Hollie from whom I have nicked adapted this rating system. Ranking Meaning 🎄⁠🎄⁠🎄⁠🎄⁠🌟 •chef's kiss• 11/10 no notes 🎄⁠🎄⁠🎄⁠🎄 Hits all notes of the formula but in an enjoyable way 🎄⁠🎄⁠🎄 Perfectly serviceable Christmas film 🎄⁠🎄 Adequate attempt but probably too cute or confusing 🎄 “You make...

Full of the magic of Christmas, this musical tale of family reunion, betrayal, and toymaking feels like Disney made Dinsdale's The Toymakers. Gentle steampunk magical toys include a narcissistic matador and a wooden robot that is not Wall-E. Forrest Whittaker sings. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know...

17th November - 23rd November This time last year, my garden was under 6 inches of snow. This year the "cold snap" has barely resulted in ground frost. I remembered an old laptop in a box so I tried setting up a local shared server. Now I have a nice little system involving a mounted cloud drive, a cron job, samba,...

“A feisty princess locked in a tower must save the kingdom from an evil sociopath” is right up my street! The entire film is basically a lengthy, well-choreographed fight scene that showcases the princesses prowess as well as witty one-liners that 1980s Schwarzenegger would be proud of. It somehow reminded me of...

While summarising a book I was intending purchasing as a gift for a friend, Anthropic's Claude LLM provided me with sources for its summations. Unfortunately, those citations are for the articles it read on the way to help it bypass paywalls on the actual content it needed to cite. In this particular instance,...

Thanks to the little energy-related facts I get in communications from my electricity supplier, I learned the Kentucky Coal Mining museum has been solar powered since 2017 in what seems like the Scooby Doo double-take of the century. "It is a little ironic…" Brandon Robinson, communications director, Interview with...

I set out on the first of November with noble intentions to share a learning every day. I'd been doing well, my statistics for November were looking like a nice solid block of colour! But then life happened. Work got busy, home got busy. I was tired and wracking my brains for something I had learned I could share...

One thing I always tell people at work (apart from "it depends") is “the closer you get to launch, the less you know”. This is becoming very apparent at work this week as we start to spec a new product for a client. Unpicking everything that was demonstrated in the pitch and writing requirements, and assumptions —...