Shockingly, it’s that time of the year again. Well, actually, no it’s not. It’s not even been Halloween yet. But at Custom, we’re well into work on Issue 40, which comes out at the end of November, making it our Christmas issue! As well as reviewing performance PC hardware, every year we do a round-up of mince pies, pitting a team of hungry and opinionated tech hacks against a range of pies in order to decide which is the most festive. This year’s test assessed contenders ranging in price from 49p for six (Sainsbury’s Basics) all the way up to £5.50 for six (Harrods). Testing was as thorough, demanding and sickly sweet as ever, and the results should make for entertaining reading. I think we’re going to put the article up on the web for the first time this year, so I’ll post a link when it’s out
Ingredients
Journalist Alex Watson, technology, books, reading, photography, the Far East, the iPhone, technology’s role in creativity, lots of caffeineMethods of consumption
Greatest Hits…
...Although none of these were ever Number 1s in Azerbaijan, Japan or on college radio.
* On visiting countries that have been the subject of airstrikes by allies of your home country
* Why it's important for The Beatles to make their songs available digitally
* A visit to Peleliu, home of some fascinating WW2 relics and origin of the phrase 'thousand yard stare'
* Five ways to beat writer's block and get words going
* On Holbein and Shakespeare
* Blights on the English language - most hateful words in techFrom which department?
This is the past


This year’s Mince Pie Recommendation…
As promised, this year’s annual Custom PC Mince Pie Megatest is up at the CPC site, here. The whole magazine team took part in the testing way back at the end of October, and the article itself was then written