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Aliens… from Mars

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Chief Cobra

“♫ So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, ♬ ♪ And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space, ‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth. ♬♩” – Eric Idle, … Continue reading →

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Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Chief Cobra

“What can be palpably more absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?” – member of the public, early 19th century England In 1823, Robert Stephenson and Company was formed with the … Continue reading →

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Comfy sofa, STAT!

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Chief Cobra

You’d better sit down for this. Ok, here it is. I’m going to tell it to you straight, I owe you that. I won’t pussy-foot around, beat around the bush, procrastinate or generally dance around the issue. I am going … Continue reading →

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Which low hanging fruit are you?

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Unless you’re a hermit who lives in a pineapple under the sea, you’ve almost certainly read/heard about an unfortunate incident in recent days where hackers made off with over six million user accounts from Linked In. They broke in and … Continue reading →

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The most anticipated post of 2012!

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Yes, that’s right, let’s have a big hand for the iPhone game progress report! So, iPhone game, what have you been up to since we last had a non-excuse progress report over a year ago? “Well, Mr Cobra, huge progress … Continue reading →

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P P P Pick up a patent (portfolio)

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Chief Cobra

“If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” – Bill Gates, Challenges and Strategy Memo, 16 May 1991 … Continue reading →

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Atishoo, atishoo, their pants fall down

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Being caught with your trousers down is never good unless you have a truly spectacular undercarriage. Take the games industry as an example: First, Atari were caught by themselves, Sega and Nintendo. Then, Sony strolled in and caught Sega. Sony, … Continue reading →

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Twelve Spider Pile-up

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Chief Cobra

My umbrella looks like a twelve spider pileup. Instead of the glorious press-sliiiiide-sproingggg action that it used to do when I deployed it, I now get a urrggghhh, griiiiind, thuhhhhd followed by the sprinkling and tinkling sound of little bits … Continue reading →

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The Zombie Apocalypse

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Chief Cobra

We all know that the zombie apocalypse is coming, but when, exactly? Well, if the movies are anything to go by, I would say quite soon. Indeed, if you can bear it, it probably makes sense to hang around teenagers … Continue reading →

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Five no trumps. What could go wrong?

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Whilst I feel like a fallback to the British empire saying this (hahaha! We once had an empire!), I must express my enormous disappointment about the severe lack of bridge players these days. I think of it as a national … Continue reading →

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