Can’t Sleep, Won’t Sleep

I was gonna write some random snippets until I nodded off, but this will do: This week Microsoft decided to ‘cut off’ a suspected 600,000 Xbox Live users from the service because they’ve most likely modified or ‘chipped’ their console to play pirated games. The BBC website decided to interview a grown man called Raz. “Raz says he [...]

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Random Thoughts #2

I’ve been thinking…..and it’s probably not a good idea. – News bulletins jumped on Bruce Forsyth for his comments on the Strictly Come Dancing race row. He was wrong to compare today’s reaction to how people would have reacted 25 or 30 years ago (it’s irrelevant) and he needed to choose his words more carefully. Brucie [...]

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The Hype Machine

And so it begins. On Wednesday evening England qualified for next years’ historic football World Cup, which will be held on the African continent for the very first time. While my native Scotland toiled and battled before, as usual, messing everything up in stunning fashion, our rivals south of the border ran away 5-1 victors against the Croats, a team who ruined [...]

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