As well as the normal Monday event of watching Mastermind and University Challenge on TV, yelling out answers less often than I would like, tonight there was something called Hard Spell. Its along the lines of the spelling bees which have been so popular in the US for ages, but seems like only one step […]
Entries from November 29th, 2004
Gang of Four
November 26th, 2004 · Comments Off on Gang of Four · Music
Well. I’m excited. I was reading the newspaper today and saw an advert for a small tour in January by Gang of Four, including a date at the Shepherds Bush Empire. GoF made an album called Entertainment which is my favourite record of all time, then a few more which were not as good, then […]
Tags: Concerts·Gang of Four
Drummers
November 20th, 2004 · Comments Off on Drummers · Music
Each week The Guardian has a quiz which runs all week, set by a guest writer, and usually about some particualr interest of theirs. This week the quiz was set by Al Murray (AKA The Pub Landlord) and the questions were all about drummers. His introduction said:
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Ripping
November 14th, 2004 · Comments Off on Ripping · Music, Technology
I spent the late afternoon and evening ripping more CDs to my hard drive to copy onto my iRiver, which now has just over 7900 songs on it. Well, tracks anyway: there are a couple of classical albums which contain a lot of short tracks. As I have just about all my own CDs ripped […]
Remembrance Day
November 14th, 2004 · Comments Off on Remembrance Day · Life
Today was Remembrance Sunday, and our girl was marching with the army cadets and laying a wreath after the town’s service, so we all went down to watch. Previously I had not had much to do with the Remembrance business until last year, when as Deputy Mayor, I went to the the town’s other parade […]
Wasted day
November 11th, 2004 · Comments Off on Wasted day · Life
Today was a complete and utter waste of my last day of annual leave for this year. I took the day off because I had a dentist appointment at 08:30, but when I went there neither I nor the dentist wanted to risk doing anything because of my cold and the likelihood of me going […]
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New Toys
November 10th, 2004 · Comments Off on New Toys · Technology
On Sunday night I ordered a new computer from Dell. I ordered it online and today it was delivered – an evening delivery which was an option given. Why don’t more companies do that? It was a good deal. £341 for the computer and 15-inch TFT screen. I have had it out of the box, […]
University Challenge
November 9th, 2004 · 1 Comment · Life
Over the last few weeks I have been getting hooked on University Challenge on BBC2. First of all it does give me a thrill to yell out the correct answers, especially as I messed up my A levels and didn’t get to go to University, but I also like Paxman’s approach when a particularly stupid […]
Tags: TV
The day the music died
November 9th, 2004 · Comments Off on The day the music died · Life
For old times’ sake I bought the NME today. Back in the late 70s and early 80s I bought it every week. Now its just once or twice a year. This week featured the death of John Peel very heavily. And I have to admit that, as I was reading it, I was getting quite […]
Tags: Nostalgia
Trouble?
November 8th, 2004 · Comments Off on Trouble? · Work
I don’t know if there has been trouble with this site, or just with my internet connection, but I couldn’t update this the other day. But then I have been well under the weather with a heavy cold all weekend, and still a bit rough so was a lot more concerned about just laying down. […]
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