You know, of course, that I'm an insane Back to the Future fan. However, it wasn't until we watched the incredible Back in Time) documentary that I realised I'd missed out on an important part of BTTF fandom - Michael J Fox's books. I picked up Lucky Man, his memoir chronicling his career and his Parkinson's Disease diagnosis, and how the two had to fit in his life side by …

I'm not one that particularly wants a Back to the Future sequel, even though I'm a huge fan of the trilogy. However, anything else we can get that allows us to spend time in Hill Valley is fine by me. I hugely enjoyed the Telltale Games episodic game series that thrust us straight back into the world of time travel and all its many consequences. I drooled over the BTTF …

Maggie, aka Mighty Girl, is one of the reasons I started my own Life List many moons ago, and I'm always interested to see her take on resolutions, goals and achievements to undertake. Whilst her resolutions this year may be minimalistic, they are none the less inspiring, particularly this one about putting pen to paper/finger to keyboard. Write and write and write and write. It’s like talking, as much as …

The fact that Peter Kay's Car Share was brilliant and received a lot of love is probably not news to many, given that the series aired in April last year. It was something that passed Mr C by, however, and whilst I watched it over and over and grew to love it more and more, I felt protective of it in that way that means you can't really recommend it …

I've caught a couple of trains over the festive period, and whilst this is not particularly exciting news, it has been a while since I've travelled on the railway. I wanted to test out the Trainline app, which recently updated to include in-app purchasing via Apple Pay, and my findings were thus: HOW did any of us manage to navigate train travel without this app? From the off, it is …

There is no one right way to blog, e-mail, or otherwise share content with the world. No right time to post, no right combination of networks to use, no perfect font size or color. So at a certain point you're going to have to go back to the only true metric, the only like that matters in the end. Yours. Boing Boing: Escaping the new media cargo cult

In the previous post I wrote about third-party games on the Apple TV, I talked of how brilliant it was that Just Dance can be played without having to dash about the shops in a fruitless search for the correct controller for the job. That's not the full story though. Whilst the Apple TV remote can be used for all the games that are available, it's not always the ideal …

Since I started my Life List project six years ago (six!), I've been wrapping up how each year has gone and what I've experienced that I probably wouldn't have done if I hadn't started such a thing. The last so-called Life List Review, however, was at the end of 2013, and two years have passed since then. I made the silly mistake of taking on some exams and spent the …

Many times, I started writing the post about my Life List challenge to complete a puzzle book but the trouble is... well, it's boring, isn't it? Who wants to read about someone else trying to do a puzzle? I envisaged glorious photos and regular updates, but to be frank, I couldn't summon the energy to take any! I completed the puzzle book (almost) at some point earlier in the year, …

One thing that had never really occurred to me about streaming music services until the last couple of weeks, is the access you have to things that you don't need all the time. Sure, you want to create playlists of your favourite songs and you want to listen to the best band albums over and over again, but sometimes there is music you only require for a specific period of …

One of my earliest forays into recording my voice involved working with LibriVox to create audiobooks. The site is a great place full of volunteers who help to record and gather together public domain works, creating a vast archive of audiobooks. I haven't had time to participate in a long while, but did manage to list all the projects I was involved with. It was previously a constantly updated page …

The long-awaited update to the Apple TV that allowed third-party apps has been a mixed blessing. On the one hand, there are lots of new apps to play with and some of them are fan-flippin-tastic! On the other hand, usability and simplicity has taken a big knock, and there were some pretty serious niggles that are, thankfully, gradually being ironed out. Better to dwell on the good, though, and I've …

It's a big responsibility and an honor to work in that huge orbiting laboratory. Figuring out how to support life in the hostile environment of space has resulted in thousands of down-to-earth spin-offs, from temperature-regulating underwear to heart pumps that rely on Shuttle fuel-pump technology. The concrete benefits and by-products of the science we do in space have touched fields from agriculture to medicine to robotics. Data gathered on the …

I was super excited to watch the new Jessica Jones series on Netflix. I'd not got on board with Daredevil, but this was something different. The concept appealed 100% - Marvel expanding their universe with female characters at the helm? Bring it on. Netflix allowing us to binge watch the entire series at once? I'm on board! The trouble is, it arrived just before I got to my latest exam …

As is often the way, the first part of my December downtime has been spent curled up under a duvet desperately waiting for the hour I can have my next Lemsip. This year, I tried a new tactic of supplementing the real medicine with that other thing that's supposedly even better: laughter. There were a few new stand up shows available on iTunes, those that have presumably also been released …

I think this was aired on James Corden's show last week, but I've just caught up with the video now. Love Me Like You Do isn't one of my favourite Ellie songs, but how can you not love it done in so many different ways? I particularly enjoy the country version, with some exceptionally dodgy accents. I've been listening to more and more country music recently, and not a lot …

I’ve fully embraced the world of Apple Music, far more than I have any other streaming product. It’s not perfect, but considering how many Apple shaped gadgets I have, it fits into my life better than other streaming services do. It’s had quite a big impact on my listening habits, which is perhaps a story for another day, but the bottom line is I’m listening to a lot more music …