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Redesign!

I’ve been stuck back at home in Leeds with very little to do, so I’ve redone the place. Feedback would be appreciated.

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Movember

This month I partook of movember, which I’m sure you’ve all heard of. I wanted to join in, but I didn’t want to have a weird, awkward moustache hanging around making me look like a class-a rapist, so...

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The 5 Stages of Watching a TV Show

I’ve been watching quite a few new TV shows recently, and it’s got me thinking about the phases you go through watching a new show. Not just how you react to one show individually, but how watching one...

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Nintendo: A Modern Day Parable

It’s December, 2006. This christmas, a sensation will erupt into stores globally, breaking sales records all over the place and generally making one company a lot of money. This sensation is a games...

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Orange Juice, on the Rocks

Another morning, another hang over, another jazz club and another lousy pay check. Gus is me. I work for a newspaper. Jazz clubs, mostly. It’s a heap of bull. This is a town full of vice and big...

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Science!

Below is an article I wrote at the request of someone I met when I was on the education panel. I never sent it to him because it took me months to say exactly what I wanted to, and by that time I...

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Train Station

The station was empty. As in, empty. Carl’s train was scheduled to leave at 23:53, and he was fairly certain it was the only train running at that point anywhere in the country. There was one other...

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Arc Album Review

Around the start of 2012, my now girlfriend introduced to an album called Man Alive. I gave it a few listens because I liked the opening track, a pop number with the highly stylistic name of My Kz, Ur...

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Improving Pokémon Without Touching the Formula

In the first Pokémon games, becoming the champion was the game – once you did that, there was pretty much nothing to do but swan about trying to get the rest of the little blighters. And that was fine...

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Webology

It is fairly widely accepted that social and culture mediums are frequently accompanied by theorists, who can take a step back from said medium, and attempt to describe, explain, define and...

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