As the year draws to its end, all its calamities and horrors parade once more before my eyes and I realise it’s been a particularly…

To me, Fiido sounds like someone has lost his dog and is now calling for it everywhere, 1 hoping against all hope that it will…

I have featured an advertisement for watches once before on this blog, but that was ages ago. Before X, 1 before corona, hell, before the…

Weetabix is a brand of breakfast cereal. In the space of all things, there is perhaps nothing farther removed from chess than breakfast cereals. So…

Although I’m sure it’s never going to go away entirely, the time of the printed advertisement seems to be drawing to a close. But advertisement…

I don’t think I’ve ever spotlighted suits here, probably because it wouldn’t suit me. That is probably why the guy in today’s subject looks so…

When I first learned about the existence of a company called OxyChem — which happened shortly before this post — I immediately assumed they somehow…

We’re finally leaving the Lewis chessmen behind, but we’re not quite back to normal pieces: they’re still human sized. And they figure in a commercial…

Hah! I didn’t quit at all! After the utter despair at the end of my last blog post you could have been forgiven for thinking…

This year, it is precisely forty years ago that the first Macintosh computers were released on an unsuspecting world. With a full one hundred and…