Archive for June, 2008

Celebrating 100 lenses and 2 Top 100s

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

I published my 100th lens this week. The lucky lens is an early one for Halloween: Making Halloween Costumes from Household Items.
After seeing my Torchwood lens float up to around the 120 mark earlier in the year, and spending several weeks trying to get it more traffic to push it into the top 100, I finally [...]

If anyone was going to beat cancer three times, we thought Jane McGrath would be the one. She was a real fighter, and even as she waged her own battle with breast, hip, and brain tumours, she was determined to help others. As founder and president of The McGrath Foundation, she did - and her legacy [...]

In Eastern countries, the rules are fairly clear - remove your shoes before entering a home or other important building. But what is the proper etiquette in the west? Would you really want a financial consultant going through your tax figures in his gungy socks?
Weigh in on the debate on whether to remove your shoes [...]

Lauren Huxley attacker gets 24 years

Friday, June 13th, 2008

The man who brutally attacked Lauren Huxley received a sentence of 24 years this morning. He smashed her skull and face with a metal tool and tried to destroy evidence by dousing her in petrol and setting the house alight. Lauren didn’t know him - it was possibly a random attack.

Tribute to Former Torchwood Team Members

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

I’ve finished watching the episodes of Torchwood Season Two on YouTube, so I’ve now had a chance to update my Torchwood Alumni lens with season two tributes as well.
Be warned that the Torchwood Alumni lens contains full spoilers for both Torchwood Season One and Season Two. Spoilers are marked, though, so if you want to [...]