Month: February 2013

  • Hangover Square

    I saw the 1945 film adaptation of Hangover Square long before I knew it was based on a 1941 novel of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. I’ve just finished reading the novel for my book club, and from what I remember of the film it’s quite a loose adaptation. The novel starts off a […]

  • Offloading digital stills

    Smartphone cameras have improved over the years, but even budget digital cameras take better photos than high-end smartphones. The main reason phone photos have proliferated on the internet is because it’s still sufficiently annoying to get data off an SD card. People (including me) forego the superior image quality to avoid the comparative hassle of […]

  • On musicals and plays

    Last I saw Top Hat at the Aldwych Theatre because my flatmate had a free ticket. I agreed to go because I quite like the Fred Astaire film from 1935, and I like film musicals generally. The performance wasn’t bad, but as dancing doesn’t do much for me at the best of times, I found myself thinking […]

  • An attempt to rewrite

    What used to be here was the output of a Python blog engine that I wrote when I should have been writing my master’s dissertation in 2006. I liked it because I would write a code snippet which constituted a post, run my script, and out would come perfect XHTML on the other end. Of […]