Tag: haggis
Crash
This ensemble drama about racial prejudice just manages to avoid the risk of oversimplification.
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The Lion roared
Covers bands will always be judged on the quality of their renditions. Fortunately these are sometimes good.
- Originally published: 27 Oct 2007 in Concerts
Finishing FarCry
Finishing FarCry last night brought to an end my long struggle with mutant monkeys, mad professors and obsolete computers. It had been almost a year before I could even play the game after my own mid-spec machine gave up the ghost on all but the lowest display settings available in Ubisoft‘s inaugural next-gen gem. Whilst …
- Originally published: 27 Sep 2005 in Personalia
Solas
People are inherently decent: celebrating a threatening undertone that fails to materialise.
- Originally published: 11 Jan 2007 in Film
The Paper
Beyond 90 minutes, this journo movie is pressed for time.
- Originally published: 15 May 2007 in Film
Goodbye to RM!
It’s time to say goodbye to a good employer. I’m moving back to Yorkshire.
- Originally published: 13 Apr 2006 in Editorial
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.