Henrys Journal

Love It

Nerds! Geeks! Dorks! Dweebs! You have to love them all. Whatever variation a super-clever, computer-loving (occasionally socially-inept, but I am in no way suggesting that’s every one, it’s a very small number!) individual comes in, they are loveable for several reasons: OK, half the time they might not be able to communicate their incredible ideas so well—only because us non-nerds don’t have the brain-capacity to handle what they are on about, which is our own stupid fault—but they are the More

Honesty Over Everything

This is the link you want to click on to get to a great web-site which won’t try to pull the wool over your eyes and tell you that Global Warming is actually a load of rubbish and you shouldn’t go believing in it. And know what else is good? You might even learn something. I know I did.

One consistent feature of theenigin is their ability–something which comes naturally and isn’t at all forced–to cram an awful lot of More

Best Music Vids - Portishead.

‘The Rip’ is one of my favourite Portishead songs. It is taken from ‘Third’ (which also happens to be my favourite one of their albums).

I had heard the track quite a few times before I finally came across its official video on You Tube. I’m not sure what I expected it to be like and I certainly wasn’t prepared for it. Portishead have always released interesting videos to accompany their singles, but this one is the best to More

The 00s: Where’s The Identity?

Human Traffic was the super hyper-active, quintessentially 90s party film about five pill-popping, out-of-their-heads friends who live only for the weekend. Monday to Thursday it’s work, boring, mundane, pointless, a waste of time—then the weekend comes: 48 hours to cut loose and live for themselves. No boss, no rules; anything goes, so long as it’s fun. Watching it now it’s a bit dated, but one thing it does more than ever–and will continue to do as time goes on–is show More

New Troubles In Northern Ireland

As Gordon Brown and the Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen try to broker a deal between two increasingly opposed parties in Northern Ireland, it seems that we stand on the verge of a return to the dreadful days of mistrust and violence associated with The Troubles.

In the decade that has passed since the Good Friday agreement came into place, huge strides have taken place in Northern Ireland politics. I am old enough however to remember the horror of the 70s More

half full, half empty?

Actually neither my glass is just not big enough, that’s how I feel today, a veritable overflow, one of those days when life makes you feel rich and in your heart you just know that if you step around the corner another delight is going to face you.

Why? Well it started with getting out the house one cold miserable day, didn’t want to do it had made a million and fifty excuses why I could not possibly start my More

The Child In Us.

I watched one of my favourite films again the other day. It is a much underrated British movie called, ‘Paperhouse’ and it was made in the eighties.

It is the sort of story that is really easy to get into; it sounds a little bit silly, but it actually comes across as being very believable. Anna is a girl of around twelve who loves to draw. When she gets Meningitis she discovers that her pictures actually become the backdrop to More

They made me a moderator

Well it might be short lived but the guys at the universal cult TV website. Playback, have made me a moderator in the forum. So yes now I’m a man with power. Well limited power I’ve been started off on the house MD forum which is fine with me since the show is soooo cool. Check it out guys, see you around the forum!