*Spoilers* OK, so I didn’t say a thing about the iPhone (which may be because they aren’t in Europe) so I will blog about the final episode of The Sopranos (delayed as well for an Irish release.) Somehow, I managed not to know how the series ended, except some rumblings of “controversy” and that Hillary [...]

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There are two sites I have been enjoying over the past few months, but they are especially better when more people play. The first is Last.fm. If you like music and are a rabid user of iTunes, why don’t you sign up for an account and befriend me? I’ve been introduced to some great new [...]

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One of the things I missed intensely from the States was TiVo. Like broadband, its hard to know how you lived without TiVo. No control over what I watch?! How barbaric. We did bring a loaded TiVo box with movies, but I couldn’t get it to work as just a recorder here. Sky + doesn’t [...]

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Oddly, I don’t even own any Leonard Cohen albums and my favorite song of his isn’t even his own rendition; Jeff Buckley’s phenomenal cover of Hallelujah from Grace. That didn’t stop me from attending the concert film-cum-documentary, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man. I figured it was most likely a replay of several performances from the [...]

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This was the first Academy Awards show I missed in at least 18 years. I used to think the Oscars ran late, but they don’t even start here until 11:30PM. Our guest from California, Lea, actually stayed up to watch the whole thing … until 4:30AM. I was up at 6AM in order to get [...]

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