http://www.cankoluman.com Web Developer Artist Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:24:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes! And see if you can repeat that twenty times! The topic of this article is indeed the jolly jollies jollied by the jolly MPs of our jolly parliament for their jolly expenses using jolly pounds of the jolly tax payer. Whether it is jolly entertainment or jolly houses, the ... http://www.cankoluman.com/blog/2009/05/11/jolly-jollies-in-jolly-old-blighty-by-jolly-jill-and-jolly-joe/ 'Bout a week ago I went to the London Sci Fi Film Festival with a friend of mine to see The City of Lost Children - in full 35mm glory! Marc Caro, also the director of Delicatessen, was there in person for a pre-show interview. The festival director kept throwing ... http://www.cankoluman.com/blog/2009/05/07/may-1st/ This being Easter weekend, and HMV having a sale, I ended up parting with some of my hard earned cash - acquiring in return - a few DVDs... Though the official reviews of Vin Diesel's Babylon A.D. were mixed, I must say I was pleasantly suprised!The movie reminds me of ... http://www.cankoluman.com/blog/2009/04/13/babylon-ad/ Yes! Peaches, with her electro-punk sound, was at the RFH. It was a memorable evening: her parents were in the audience, and... she began the show with the maxim, "I m gonna murder you tonight!" To my right was a Spanish contingent of 4 girls and a guy. Perhaps it ... http://www.cankoluman.com/blog/2009/04/13/peaches-at-rfh-peachey/ Wow! What a speech! This is actually the first time to my recollection that a Western leader has come to Turkey and expressed interest and appreciation for Turkish culture and history as well as current issues. If people had doubts about Obama's diplomatic endeavours, he has already done a whole ... http://www.cankoluman.com/blog/2009/04/06/obama-mania-in-ankara/ Yes, the Russians are back! Of course, I am talking about valves - in this case the Sovtek 12AX7WC - the cryo treated version. The valve is definitely high gain - but you get a lot of high gain with comparatively little clip & distortion - producing a well-directed, strong, ... http://www.cankoluman.com/blog/2009/04/04/in-sovtek-we-trust/ He's finally here - President Obama arrived in the UK early this am - making it to number 10 Downing street for breakfast with 'Gordy' - along with a bunch of other officials. So I guess it was not a very private affair of wives & hubbies...Ooops! Shevckenko just put ... http://www.cankoluman.com/blog/2009/04/01/obama-fever-hits-london/ Well, a quick interim review on Resident Evil 5 is in order:In my case, this was probably one of the most anticipated games, that I had been waiting for. So having actually pre-ordered the game, and having played it for a few sessions now, I ll put my thoughts on ... http://www.cankoluman.com/blog/2009/03/31/resident-evil-5-xbox-review/ Well... It is finally here! The new web site. It has been in the making for a while, and marks most notably my move to the WordPress platform, which I have found to be quite excellent. I had evaluated quite a few open source CMS's - and it finally ... http://www.cankoluman.com/blog/2009/03/31/the-inauguration/