James Hooker

Over the last few years I’ve noticed that the amount of rational thought coming from the UK has been nearly non-existent.
After a conversation I had with my Dad a couple of nights ago about the state of the country, naming teddy bears after religious figures etc… I came to a bit of a realisation, involving [...]

As we all know, on July 1st 2007 Britain goes smoke free by disallowing smoking in enclosed public spaces.
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I myself am not a smoker; I personally don’t think that I would gain from it at all.  However some people do like to smoke and they have every right to do so!
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I have been an Apple customer now for a year, and I’d like to share with you my apple experience.
Intel iMacs are announced, I was after another machine decide that it is awesome enough to splash out on. I rang Apple.com, ordered the machine… guy on the phone said it would take 3 working days [...]

“Only customers that use SUSE have paid properly for intellectual property from Microsoft,” - 2006
Bullshit. I was just about to buy a SLED license as well… £30 saved!

Here is my list of TV shows that I think should be banned. Why? Because they are stupid. Stupid as.
Will and Grace
Now, I like mismatch comedies as much as the next guy.. but Will and Grace sucks.
I mean this is the dialogue for every episode;
Will: I have a very important court case…. oh no theres [...]

Another rant!!? yep… im afraid so.
Why is it everytime train workers are pissed off, they strike?
I have been travelling to London everyday for the last three months, and had my arse kicked by strikes now 3 times!! ONE A MONTH!!!
It’s pathetic. Both train companies and the unions seem to have forgotten the aim of the [...]

This week I have had my own issues with Digital Rights Management. There I was on the train after buying my shiny new “Seinfeld Season 6″ DVD… and I could’nt play the DVD with the open source media players I have on my laptop.
This bought up a very interesting concept in my mind: The distributers [...]