Supersonic Feet

Alistair Cooke was a legend of British radio, sending his weekly 'Letter from America' to provide thoughtful insights into the differences between the British and Americans, as well as more general observations of American lif and politics. It was always a pleasant surprise to turn the radio on and find his calm narration on American life. ...

An interesting link popped up in my Google Reader today: WebKit for Windows (via Vitamin). Someone has seemingly released the first WebKit-based browser for Windows, allowing Windows users to test their sites for Safari without buying a Mac (something I still intend to do if I ever get some money). Unfortunately, the GetWebKit link is dead ...

Following on from my previous post about Sky Sports' 'oops' moment, I just got the same error message again, with the same silly 'itdoesn'tgetbetterthanthisband'. Well, apparently it does, because I don't see the BBC News site collapsing under load and I'm quite sure they have more visitors to deal with than Sky Sports. If they want ...

I may not have mentioned I was going, but I did. And now I'm back. The reason for the trip was my Mum's birthday back in April, when I bought her tickets to see one of her favourite ballet dancers, Carlos Acosta in his new show, Tocororo. The show was on Saturday, so we drove down ...