June 2008

Five minutes before the most important party of my life and the house is destroyed by a giant sandwich…

Yeah, I’m on a “quote The Young Ones” kick again. You might as well get settled in and used to it. While you’re settled in, you can also read my latest Bluescreen column at APCMag.com: Microsoft to open stylish “MS Store”: “Glass staircase replaced by Glass Ballmer, giving you the opportunity to stamp on Steve’s…

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My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five-Year Plan Sputnik Pravda Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski.

“Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?” Look, that quote has nothing to to do with my most recent paid writing work. But something has to bring a smile to my face right now, and that did. So there. Anyway, I completely missed this story, written last week for PC

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The one in which Alex breaks his "no working on the weekends" rule…

Because sometimes, in the normal course of your weekend, you come across a story that’s worth writing right now. Like this one (although, it should be noted, I didn’t write the headline or standfirst; my originals were a touch lighter): eBay forces users onto PayPal-only auctions early … by mistake “eBay is requiring customers to

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Tumbleweeds…

It’s been unusually quiet around here. Almost as though nothing was happening… But that of course hasn’t been the case. I’ve been flat out over the past couple of days, both covering for Di while she had her first exams in deleted years, giving presentations to PR types about what it’s like being a freelance

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