And the thousands of dollars I made from them. Part three. — Whosoever Holds This Hammer… Any sane person would run a mile from NaaS after the experience I had had with them. And I was about to. But then something happened. Call it serendipity; luck; fate; faith; stupidity, it doesn’t matter, what I did next was very, very risky. Remember when I said I was…

And the thousands of dollars I made from them. Part Two. — When Things Get Undone After a week of research, and buoyed by financial success stories I gleaned from Discord channels, I was keen to get in on some of this token action. I was too late to the Strong party my friend told me about. That ship had sailed. It debuted at around £25…

And the thousands of dollars I made from them. Part One. — It was 1pm on the 20th January and I was scrambling to get to my laptop. A few minutes before this, a friend on the other side of the world pinged me. “mate, have you seen the price?” We’d both been watching the price of a particular crypto token all…

Comedian Mo Amer’s semi-autobiographical series pulls off laugh-out-loud comedy with heartfelt drama. — American writer and philosopher Amos Alcott was on to something when he said, “wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also”. The quote got me thinking about some of my favourite comedy shows. Shows that I grew up watching as a kid, that I loved and cherished, but if I…

Here’s how in 5 easy steps. — It’s been 16 years since Jack Dorsey first tweeted on the platform he helped create. If you don’t know it, here’s what he wrote: “just setting up my twttr”. That was it. No profound words of wisdom. No earth shattering revelation, just a young guy (he was 30 at the…

A brutal rape-revenge thriller that thankfully skips the clichés. — Film director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) once said, “If I wasn’t a film director I might have become a serial killer”. Film directors can go to some really dark places. I mean, if directors aren’t able to take audiences down shocking, provocative, and disturbed dark places (will Lars Von Trier…

Despite not being approved by health departments in the US, Australia or the UK, its usage is still widespread. But what are the risks? — A few weeks ago, it was reported that US podcast host Joe Rogan had contracted Covid-19. …

David Lowery’s film adaptation of a 14th-century poem may not be for everyone, but it still deserves to be seen. — One needn’t search too hard to find an equal measure of scorn and passionate acclaim for David Lowery’s sumptuous and, at times, baffling medieval epic “The Green Knight”. Critics and audiences alike have pondered; nay deliberated on what it all means, if it means anything at all. Fewer still have…

Ten rings to rule them all? — You could make the case that if the recent lawsuit filed by former Avenger, B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶W̶i̶d̶o̶w Scarlett Johannson, had not seen the light of day, perhaps the film Shang-Chi too would be sitting prominently on Disney’s ‘Premiere Access’ hub on the streaming platform the same day of its cinema release. …