Hi, my name is Steve (AKA General Rant) and I’m a Father, Husband and Graphic Designer living in Abingdon Oxford (UK).
Love being a Graphic Designer it’s great fun even after doing it for some 20 years now, I’m still enthusiastic about it and it really gives me a buzz to see my work printed or published on the web.
Other than Graphics, films and video games are my main addictions. I’ve got a surround sound system for my TV, and it get plenty of use. So I have been avidly collecting DVDs, some of which I’ll be reviewing on these very pages. Why see a film at the cinema once, when you can buy the DVD for for a tenner and see it as many times as you like? However if I’m really keen to see a particular film I will make a effort.
Any way on to games, at the mo I’ve got a Dreamcast (vastly under rated) , a Playstation 2, a Game Cube, a Sony PSP and a Nintendo DS. Because I‘ve only recently brought the DS this gets the most play at the moment. So plenty there to be discussing on these pages and I haven’t even started on the family yet.
Hope you enjoy reading this site as much as I’ll enjoy writing it .
Cheers for now. Steve
P.S. If you’d like to see some of my graphics work it can be viewed here

Hi Steve –
I checked out your graphic design website…you are very talented. I am a closet graphic designer…everyone comes to me to get their drawings or web done, but I’m not a pro nor do I get paid for the job…but I do enjoy it.
Anyway, I found your blog through the “Funny Tag”…I just joined wordpress and I’m slowly developing a blog…just learnign how all this works. if you want to check out its day to day stories behind the life of a real estate agent with unual stories that are all true…just never on tv.
http://mbilotas.wordpress.com
I will add you to my blogroll.
Take care,
Mario
Thanks for your kind comments Mario, and as you’ll see I’ve added you to my blogroll as well.
Cheers
Steve