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Category: Blog

My blog and occasional comment on current affairs.

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Planned Engineering Work

ward 07/11/2010

If you live in London and have to be travel by tube at the weekend ‘Planned Engineering Work’ is a phrase you will have heard about a billion times. Probably … Read More

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Mind Lamp

ward 21/10/2010

I wrote recently about robots controlled by the brains of rats. Rats have all the fun. This week, I bring you a lamp that is controlled by human thoughts. Not … Read More

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Cyborg controlled by rat brain

ward 08/10/2010

Continuing with my ‘robots will take over the world’ theme, here is something even cooler and scarier than the Aggressive Quadrotor I wrote about recently. It is a robot controlled … Read More

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Aggressive Quadrotor

ward 29/09/2010

This is where it begins. Rise of the machines. I don’t understand how scientists – generally huge Sci Fi fans – can watch films like Terminator or Matrix and then … Read More

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Blog Life!

The iPad for writing. One month on.

ward 23/09/2010

I have now had my lovely iPad for almost a month. A friend suggested I write about it, so here we are. How does the iPad work as a writer? … Read More

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The Pope is in the UK and is worried about our holidays

ward 18/09/2010

The pope is finally here! God bless us every one! As you may have guessed from reading this site, I’m not particularly religious. I have nothing against those who are … Read More

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War Horse Play review

ward 10/09/2010

I saw this the other night and was blown away. I knew it had puppet horses in it but little else. War Horse is about a horse called Joey and … Read More

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Writing for the Internet

ward 01/09/2010

I feel like I have been neglecting this site a little bit of late. I feel bad about that. But, your honour, it isn’t my fault. In the past five … Read More

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iPad is now justified

ward 25/08/2010

Like the sad nerd that I am, I got filled with techno envy and impulse bought an iPad. I now need to justify this purchase by writing something on it. … Read More

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Giant Rats in Bradford

ward 20/08/2010

Ratzilla shot on a Bradford estate! This is some scary assed stuff. Apparently some local yokels were out ‘ratting’ when a small group of huge rats ran out. The inbred … Read More

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Be afraid! Please…

ward 17/08/2010

I was wrong I’ll admit it. See how damned magnanimous I can be? Last year I wrote about how swine flu was being blown out of proportion by the media … Read More

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Word of Ward has been poorly!

ward 13/08/2010

Yes, my poor website has been ill. Like the egomaniac I am, I went to check my readership last week and found that it had dropped to 150 a day … Read More

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Blog Life!

i Dosing

ward 25/07/2010

No one can accuse thewordofward of not having its finger on the pulse. You want zeitgeist? This is it baby! i-Dosing is allegedly the new craze sweeping the easily swept … Read More

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Stop eating fish!

ward 23/07/2010

I saw a documentary the other day called ‘The Cove’. It was a pretty awesome documentary about a secret bay where a load of Japanese slaughter thousands of dolphins for … Read More

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The Pope is coming!

ward 11/07/2010

Sorry for being controversial but the Pope is coming and it has annoyed me. If you are Catholic please ‘turn the other cheek’ and forgive me. There aren’t many left … Read More

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Total Perspective Vortex

ward 04/07/2010

This is a really cool video that, like the Total Perspective Vortex, makes you feel like a utterly pointless speck of nothing. In case you aren’t familiar with the Total … Read More

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World Cup 2010

ward 26/06/2010

Pretty topical stuff here at the wordofword. Fairly surprising too, if you knew me. Generally speaking, I couldn’t give the tiniest shit about football. Especially the premiership where individual games … Read More

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Blog Games

The future of games

ward 20/06/2010

It’s been E3 recently. If you are unaware of what E3 is, you should have less of a life and embrace the beauty of gadgetry and gaming. It’s a huge … Read More

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Another Maniac Killing Spree

ward 05/06/2010

So another nutjob has gone mental and killed a load of innocent people because of their massive inadequacies. This time it isn’t some whingeing goth teen or surviva-mental-ist, it’s a … Read More

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Blog Travel

St Ives Guide

ward 02/06/2010

What with the economy being broken and credit crunching and blah blah tedium, more people are having what has annoyingly being termed a ‘staycation’. We thought we’d give one a … Read More

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