I get a bit tired of all those jokes which are circulated by email and SMS. The ones which are funny tend to be old ones. So it makes a change to hear one that actually made me laugh. I am assuming that it is an old one I had not heard before, but even […]
Entries from April 30th, 2006
Harry Houdini
April 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Harry Houdini · Life
Its a cliche, it going to be in all the Sunday paper headlines, but that doesn’t make it any less appropriate. Well done to Harry for keeping Portsmouth up in the Premier league! Just a couple of months ago it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Pompey would be going down. The other great escape […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Football
Trifecta
April 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Trifecta · Life
I don’t know whether its just in the Guinness Trust estate that our cable company let their cabinets fall into disrepair, but today I reported the third one this year, via the infamous webform. This one had the door totally missing, with all the coaxial connections exposed. I wonder if there is some sort of […]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Photos
Speak and Spell
April 29th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Music
I try not to buy CDs of records I already own on vinyl, especially at full price, but I just had to make an exception for Depeche Mode’s first album, Speak & Spell for two reasons. One is the sheer amount of nostalgic affection I have for it, and the other is that I really […]
The Sultan’s Elephant
April 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on The Sultan’s Elephant · Music
Its possible that I will have other things to do on May 4th, but if I didn’t I think that I would be going up to London to see the Sultan’s Elephant.
Tags: Art·London·Sultan's Elephant
Hip punishments
April 28th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
I was particularly amused by Marge Simpson’s book in the Ricky Gervais episode of the Simpsons, called ‘Hip Punishments’. As a result of reading it she threatened the children with such dire punishments as: Wiping all the high scores off your Playstation 2 Deleting all the custom ringtones from your cellphone I wonder what else […]
Personalised newsletters
April 27th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics
We had an extraordinary response to our Labour newspapers in Furnace Green this evening. I have never before seen people come out of their house, asking to have their copy autographed by the candidate, and had the experience of seeing people taking pictures with their mobile phones everywhere we go. I would not like to […]
Old habits die hard
April 27th, 2006 · Comments Off on Old habits die hard · Technology, Work
Once upon a time there was a help desk. Despite having computers available, they used to write details of faults reported to them on whiteboards.
Webform hell
April 26th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Technology
Maybe they think they are being helpful, but companies who only supply a webform to send feedback really wind me up. What is wrong with providing an address to send proper e-mails to? I tried to report a damaged cabinet to our local cable firm and thought an email would be the most efficient way, […]
Tags: Internet
Hate mail
April 26th, 2006 · 9 Comments · Politics
I got my first hate mail today. I feel quite flattered. Here it is, in its entirety, with a few annotations in colour from me. Andrew Skudder You are a failed actor and a failed councillor, you have nothing to offer Broadfield so piss off! Failed actor? I can’t remember failing. I can remember quitting […]
