Review: 79 Short Essays on Design (Wednesday, October 8th, 2008)

Published by Craig in Design, Reviews at 9:34 am with no comments.

The other day, I picked up a copy of a book I’ve been wanting to read for a while – Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut.
It does exactly what it says on the tin – it’s 79 short-essays (essentially blog posts) on a wide variety of issues, truths, myths and experiences as seen [...]

Review – 28 Weeks Later (Wednesday, August 13th, 2008)

Published by Craig in Back From The Dead, Films, Reviews at 9:10 am with no comments.

28 Weeks Later. Not the most original name for a sequel to a film, but at least it’s not 28 Days Later 2. That would have just been weird. Aside the name’s lack of originality, the rest of the film fares up pretty well. No matter how many special effects a film has (I’m looking [...]

The iPhone Opinion (Wednesday, August 6th, 2008)

Published by Craig in Back From The Dead, Reviews, Technology at 9:08 am with no comments.

I’ve brought my old iPhone opinion back from the dead on my old blog. I’ll be bringing my best bits from my old blog slowly back over the next few weeks.
From my first ever phone (the Motorola vBox) to 2 weeks ago, I’ve always hated my mobile phone. I’ve tried to love them, and I’ve [...]

Metal Gear Solid 4 – Somehow, it’s great (Thursday, July 3rd, 2008)

Published by Craig in Games, Reviews at 7:51 pm with no comments.

So, Metal Gear Solid 4 then. 2 weeks ago I was going to write a little rant about it, but when I realised I’d written something so negative that it would even make Satan himself cry, I decided to give it a few weeks for the experience to… mature. It’s now 2 weeks later. Things [...]