A cautious welcome to 2009
Posted by Mike Halsey in general on 31. Dec, 2008 | 0 Comments
There’s probably a lot of you will want to see the back of 2008. It wasn’t a good year for many of us, including myself for personal reasons. As a swansong to the year I’ve found this amazing time-lapse video in which someone has captured the entire year in 40 seconds. This is 2008 as I [...]
My Review of 2008 – The Awards
Posted by Mike Halsey in general on 30. Dec, 2008 | 0 Comments
Best website of the year
The Mojave Experiment. They’ve changed it now but their original website was a piece of genius with one of the most fascinating interactive interfaces I’ve ever seen. People across Amercia who said they didn’t like Windows Vista were shown Windows Mojave, Microsoft’s next operating system. These are the pepsi challenge’esque videos [...]
My Review of 2008 – TV & Film
Posted by Mike Halsey in general on 29. Dec, 2008 | 0 Comments
2008 wasn’t a brilliant year for TV. There was the rebooted series of Knight Rider starring the unknown Justin Bruening who frankly is pretty good in the role of Michael Traceur or Michael Knight, whoever he’s supposed to be (frankly that one gets a bit confusing). The problem is that the cast and the writing have [...]
My Review of 2008 – Politics
Posted by Mike Halsey in general on 28. Dec, 2008 | 0 Comments
Turkey of the year, always a good award to start with when reviewing the year in politics, goes jointly to Gordon Brown for carelessly forgetting where he’d put his economic ‘golden rules’ and for having spent all our hard-earned cash reserves on single mums, and Alistair ‘badger’ Darling for completely bungling the Northern Rock fiasco.
The [...]
My Review of 2008 – in the News
Posted by Mike Halsey in general on 27. Dec, 2008 | 0 Comments
January
2008 got off to a flaming start on the 2nd of January when a family home in Hartlepool was saved from fire. A quick-thinking housewife used a pair of over-sized knickers to put out a chip pan fire. The news didn’t get any less silly in January as only a few days later, Jeremy Clarkson [...]
