3 Christmasses and a wedding

When I was a kid, Christmas seemed to stretch on forever. Weeks and weeks of holiday, hours and hours of seasonal TV (all of which I had marked in the Radio Times weeks before) and, of course, the prospect of an all mighty feed, including the one time a year I was allowed Mrs T’s [...]

MacFormat Christmas Party

After a very busy few months, it seemd only appropriate for the MacFormat team to relax and actually have a bit of fun at the end of the year. And so it was that we continued our annual tradition of having a really big meal at the Marlborough Tavern and then embarassing ourselves by attempting [...]

Snikity snikt!

All I can say is WOW! They seem to have done a perfect job of combining the excellent Origins mini series with the classic Claremont X-Men stories (while all along keeping the slick visuals and ‘reallistic’ costumes of the first three X movies). Oh, and it has Gambit in it too, [...]

Switch to Mac!

Another month and yet another magazine has been produced by my fair hands (although they are becoming incrasingly tired, RSI riddled hands if truth be told). This time it is another in our series of MacFormat Specials, and I have to admit to being particuarly proud of this one as it hangs together very pleasingly [...]

Feeling festive

With the Christmas deadlines passed, the world is somehow a happier, more wonderful place. The sun seems to be shining brighter and the birds are singing louder, (both of which I initially put this down to the fact that I have had a lot of early starts, late finishes and very few lunch hours in [...]

It’s ruth-tic, innit.

As much as I wish I could hate Jamie Oliver and call him a fat-tongued Mockney buffoon, I can’t help but admire the guy’s chutzpah when it comes to the launch of Jamie magazine. On so many levels I should hate his faux-Friends style lifestyle with his celebrity poker parties, his ‘crazy’ restaurant openings and [...]