Well there is not much fame involved and no fortune at all but Wired magazine – a Croydon listings mag with a circulation of about 25,000 – has asked if it can use some of my photos of the Croydon World Party. I shan't let it go to my head though. Well not much anyway. […]
Entries from July 31st, 2006
Fame and fortune
July 31st, 2006 · Comments Off on Fame and fortune · Music
Tags: Concerts·Photos·World music
Jeremy Bentham
July 31st, 2006 · 8 Comments · Life
One of the things I liked about the book The Tyranny of Numbers, was what the author called its historical interludes. These were chapters about historical figures relevant to the development of counting and statistics. These reminded me very much of some of Stephen Jay Gould’s essays on historical figures (mostly scientists) in the way […]
Tags: Books·Eccentrics·Heroes·Maths
Crawley Mela
July 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Crawley Mela · Life, Music
This weekend was the Crawley Mela at the Hawth theatre. I think the crawley Mela is a bit unusual. Traditionally a Mela is an Asian festival, and tends to feature mostly culture from the Indian sub-continent. Our one tends to spread its net a bit wider. The organisers made a point of saying that the […]
Lame Joke
July 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Lame Joke · Life
I don’t reckon much of this estate agent…
Interviews
July 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Politics
Jayne and I both had selection interviews again today. Despite my increasing disillusionment with certain aspects of the national party, and even the constituency party I am still happy to go on the panel of candidates. It does help that very few winnable seats are likely to select anyone other than the sitting candidate for […]
Tags: Labour Party
A night out in Doncaster
July 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on A night out in Doncaster · Work
I feel like such a hypocrite! Last night a few of us who were visiting Doncaster were taken out for a meal in town. After the meal we had a couple of drinks in a bar. After closing time we went on to an 80's club. When that turfed us all out after midnight I […]
Tags: Yorkshire
Don’t try this at home!
July 28th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
I was getting a few hits from people who had been searching for things like “Tilgate scooter kids incident” and wondered what it was all about. Now I have found out that it was from people who had seen this video and were trying to find out more information about it. I will freely admit […]
Job Advert
July 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Work
I was looking at a job advert on the company’s internal job board today. It was the usual list of requirements, but part of the scope of the job made me smile. It said that you have to act as ambassador for the company. For some reason my immediate mental image was of walking into […]
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Perversions
July 26th, 2006 · Comments Off on Perversions · Life
At Kings Cross I bought a copy of Empire, the film magazine, to give me something to read during idle moments in the Doncaster hotel.When I shook it up to dislodge all the advertising inserts I found, alongside the ubiquitous brochure for Dell computers, another piece of advertising which was sealed up, with the warning: […]
Tags: WTF
Doncaster Revisited
July 26th, 2006 · Comments Off on Doncaster Revisited · Work
I am back up in Doncaster again, but staying in a different hotel this time. This one is outside the town centre, so there are no crowds of drunks outside in the early hours, nor booming nightclub music. It is also a larger, cleaner room with a smoke alarm installed. On the negative side, being […]
