From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Cormack McCarthy – No Country For Old Men

June 20, 2007

McCarthy’s most recent work “The Road” led me to this novel.
As I mentioned in a previous review; if you’re not familiar with Cormack McCarthy the first thing that strikes you is his writing style. There are no speech marks, there are no apostrophes and he breaks most ‘classic’ writing guides such as using ‘and’ only [...]

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Vacancy

June 18, 2007

Another Friday and another trip to the cinema.
This week we went to see Vacancy, the ‘horror’ starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale. I didn’t have particularly high expectations for this film so I was pleasantly surprised when I didn’t hate it.
The film follows the two bickering leads as their car breaks down forcing them to [...]

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Seriously Sucky Safari

June 12, 2007

I spent the greater half of last week tearing out clumps of hair in sheer frustration over an annoying bug in Safari.
It wasn’t the kind of bug that you could really code around. I can’t get into specifics but it was to do with iFrames and javascript. The bug caused a significant problem with how [...]

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