Each year, since 2006, Julie and I have planned a Christmas movie day, where we watch a day of Christmas spirited films whilst eating various Christmas type food (basically: volauvents). We have a rule that we can't watch the same film two years in a row, but we're secretly trying to watch different films each [...]

I hope Santa brought you everything you wished for (including receipts) and the wine and cheese was flowing accordingly. There's still the new years eve parties to attend, but I've been told by the wife that all 'crap' food has to be consumed by the 2nd of Jan - diets ahoy!

Year after year, here in the UK, we have the same usual rubbish for Christmas songs. We had Mr Blobby as No. 1 back in 1993 and Bob the Builder in 2000 even made it the poll position. Sure, we had a few serious ones, but come on, admit it, Mad World was almost as [...]

Merry Christmas all - and a pre-emptive happy new year! In other news, my entry for Andy Budd's Santa letter won a copy of his book and a 2gb iPod Nano. Superb! Congratulations to those who also won the book.

Andy Budd (of Clearleft) has blogged about his CSS Mastery and iPod Christmas giveaway, and since the entries are a little thin on the ground, I thought maybe I should publish this...