Posts belonging to Category Life

My impressions of the HP Pavilion DV7

So, HP rather kindly sent me a laptop to try out and write about on this blog. I’ll admit this now: my hardware knowledge is not what it used to be. Once upon a time, I built my own PCs, regularly upgraded components and overclocked processors faster than you could say overclocked processor. In recent [...]

Film Roundup – December

Apologies for the delay in this. Enjoying an extended Christmas/New Year break plus the other blog entries of late meant that I kept never getting round to this. Still, better late than never, eh? A solid 20 for the month to round off the year. 1st: Life As We Know It – Not a good [...]

Films of 2011

This year I managed to watch 250 films which isn’t bad going at all! Amongst those 250 films, I went to the cinema 50 times Deciding what my films of the year are though is tough. Much like the gaming year, it’s been a good year for films but I’m struggling to think of something [...]

Love Actually

Love Actually is one of my favourite Christmas films. It’s not quite my absolute favourite because I can’t settle on just one (throw in Home Alone, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Santa Claus: The Movie and Die Hard and I still can’t decide!). It holds a huge amount of memories for me despite its relative youthfulness [...]

Competition Time!

I’m ill. I make a crap ill person who whines too much but worst of all, keeps going then wonders why they feel even worse. This aside, I have a competition to launch on here! The kind folks at Three UK have provided me with an iPhone accessory to give out to someone on here, [...]