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Caramal Pouffe, Bashing Dan Brown and loving Harry Potter

by KendoMonkey on Friday, 18 August 2006

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 Monday, 31 July 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 Tuesday, 27 June 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 Friday, 23 June 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...

Duels Review - The Bright Lights and What I Should Have Learned

by KendoMonkey on Thursday, 22 June 2006

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...

My Book, Duels and The Bright Lights And What I Should Have Learned

by KendoMonkey on Thursday, 15 June 2006

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?..