Watching Windows
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Each day, as I carve through the morning streets of Norwich in my iron chariot, I pass this window. They’ve made a sterling effort with their window display, worthy of a phonetograph.
The “It’s back” advertising for Cadbury’s Wispa bars persuaded me buy one. Be warned, like most things from the 80s (except the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon) they’re nothing special.
On chocolate, I can’t find Lion bars anywhere these days. If Wikipedia is to be believed they don’t sell well any more because “consumers are turning away from high-calorie bars”, though they are still in production. If you find Lion Bars for sale in Norwich, please do tell.
Six shopping weeks
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
iColin
Thursday, November 1st, 2007#236, now updated quarterly! I was hooked with an brand new iMac at work, so the most important thing was to take advantage of the Intel chipset and install several operating systems.
Mac OS and Windows at the same time! Courtesy of Unity mode in VMware Fusion. I have an Ubuntu build on it too but don’t really know what to do with that.
As for the rest of the iMac, the glossy screen is ok, not as bad as some reviews suggest, but it does makes flat colours look like gradients more than non-glossy LCD displays do.
The mighty mouse is the worst mouse I’ve ever used, it requires magic fingers to click the button you actually want, I have to use it as a one-button mouse. The keyboard however is my favourite keyboard ever.
Overall, I’d happily buy an iMac for myself, and here’s a quick film recommendation:
Eastern Promises
I associate David Cronenberg with his old stuff like Videodrome and Naked Lunch, so Eastern Promises was surprisingly serious. (I’ve not seen A History of Violence but I gather that’s a “proper” film too.)
My verdict: very good, but it’s probably best seen knowing as little as possible about the story. I’ll write no more, just trust me. Or look it up on a review site. 8/10.
