The Top Ten Most Influential Films of the Last 10 Years

Mr Phin pointed me in the direction of this list of the ‘10 Most Influential Films in the Last 10 Years‘, and I couldn’t help but spend all morning compiling my own count down. Although I see where the writer is coming from, I can’t help but feel several of them are a matter of [...]

Like Eddie Falson at the end of ‘Color of Money’, I’m baaaack!!

You may have noticed things have been a tad quiet on the blog front in recent weeks (apart from the odd movie and rugby review) and that’s because the months of October and November seem to have been swallowed up with all manner of distractions, days out and deadlines that have kept me from imparting [...]

Scrabulous RIP

Catastrophe has hit the world of Facebook, as the mighty Scrabulous has finally been taken down at the request of Hasbro, the owners of the official Scrabble. What will I do now at work when waiting for things to happen?! There are petitions on Facebook to bring back this fantastic app, however after several months [...]

Popcorn no more

Hurrah, it looks like Picturehouse cinemas have my cinema rage rant seriously and have seen fit to ban popcorn from their cinemas for the month of September. This is fantastic news for those folk like me who enjoy seeing a film without having their feet stuck to the floor or having annoying little bits of [...]

Staying safe online

A best practice guide covering lots of general advice for identifying and dealing with malicious websites and emails, and it applies to Mac and PC users equally. This was written, essentially, for my parents, but everyone should find it useful; please forward it to ageing relatives, reckless friends and web n00bs of every stripe.
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Alt dot rock anthems

After writing my rules for mix-tapes I’ve found myself re-discovering my love of making compilations. Admittedly, I’ve not broken out the C-90s (can you even get them these days?!) and so instead I have been compiling some nice thematic playlist on iTunes which I though I would share with you. First up, is a compilation [...]

Challenge rewarded…

After my epic film recommendation post from earlier in the month, I have finally received my prize! Whoo hoo for my 70s disco pants!

A bit of house keeping

A quick note for those who are interested. After 3 reasonably happy years using Blogger for the Pipedream, I have decided that it’s services really are just a bit too basic for what I need and so I have decided to move the whole thing over to WordPress. As I’m sure you’ll all agree, it [...]

A challenge has been set… and accepted!

I have been set something of a Blog-based challenge, or rather a ‘task’ by young Jennifer Phin in order to promote a bit of inter-blog activity on t’interweb. She is setting ‘tasks’ to anyone willing to make a comment on her blog here, and so after deciding I was up for the challenge, she [...]

The Pipedream Archive

The Pipedream Archive is now online. Full of classic pipedream pics (including the one above (don’t we all look young!) and the page can be found HERE .