The title serves no purpose other than expanding the number of phrases to illustrate a waste of time. Others include.....

Alexa.com - nonsense or useful?

by KendoMonkey on 31/07/2006
Alexa.com has, what some webmasters would call, a "Traffic Rankings" function that allows you to view your rank in respect to the rest of the billions of websites on the WWW. But how useful is it? How is it used? What does it prove? I've attempted to answer some of these questions in this blog entry...

Can movie buffs enjoy blockbuster films?

by KendoMonkey on 27/06/2006
It's an interesting question, I hope interesting enough to gain your interest and maintain it through this brief foray into the mind of the movie buff. Of course, first we have to define what is meant by "movie buff". Naturally, movie buffs vary massively in their tastes, predilictions and how "human" they are. By "human", I mean their ability to be arseholes...

Weekend Poem

by KendoMonkey on 23/06/2006
Friday is, for most in this country,
a day with mixed emotion.
The morning moves too slowly for comfort,
the weekend just a notion...
I've followed the Leeds based band "Duels" for a number of years now. I am (it's worth admitting) a little biased as I am good friends with a number of members of the group. However, I am known to criticise them and, yes, I'm sure I have sufficiently irritated them in the past with my skepticism regarding some aspects of their music...
Duels are close to releasing their new album "The Bright Lights And What I Should Have Learned". After releasing their single Animal and finding that their fan base was sufficiently satisfied...the press is still left wondering what has happened to Duels - what have they been doing for the last 12 months after bursting onto the scene so successfully?..

Long time, no write

by KendoMonkey on 09/06/2006
Sorry, it's been a long while since an update. I have been busy...but realistically that's not a good excuse - I simply haven't been that busy. I'll try and make this a reasonably long post to describe what I've been up to in my tedious life...
Friday evening has begun and along with it will come beer (hopefully), takeaway (possible) and if all goes well I will be watching the new Da Vinci Code movie this weekend. Having read the book I look forward to a reasonable thriller, expecting no more than to be titillated in that manner. The book is not a work of great fiction and I'm surprised and saddened that there are people who think it is. It is a thriller, it is (reasonably) well researched and involves compelling stories...