When Tevez and Mascherano arrived at West Ham everyone was saying that they were tasty players but so far only Jermain Defoe has taken it literally. What was all that about?
Entries from October 24th, 2006
Enquiry from the press
October 24th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life, Politics
I had a very strange phone call the other day. It was a chap from a local paper asking me if I knew why Councillor Alan Quirk had resigned from the management committee of the Broadfield Youth & Community Centre. On the face of it a reasonable question, but I have not been involved in […]
Tags: BYCC·Charity·Crawley Council·Local Government·Local Papers·Tories
Random African Trivia
October 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on Random African Trivia · Life, Music
Today I learned that there are no railways in The Gambia or Somalia and that Lee Brilleaux was not born on Canvey Island, or even close, but was born in Durban, South Africa.
Torchwood
October 23rd, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
I think Jayne was disappointed by Torchwood tonight. She expected to really hate it and was looking forward to taking the mickey out of me carrying on my Dr Who fixation by other means, but in the event she actually liked it.
Oops…
October 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on Oops… · Technology
I take it all back. Turns out I cocked up my own set-up while I was doing the other one yesterday. When I ran into problems I was looking at all my files to make sure I set the other site up the same way and somehow set the permissions on my .htaccess file wrongly, […]
No Comment
October 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on No Comment · Technology
I don’t think comments are working here at the moment. It might be connected to the problem B4L is having with its forum – I think we share the same host, and if they have botched a php upgrade it could be affecting me too. I don’t know how long it has been like this […]
Electricity
October 20th, 2006 · Comments Off on Electricity · Life
This is turning out to be a very bad year for electricity in my house.
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Religious stereotyping
October 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
There is a story in this week’s Crawley Observer which I really can’t resist referring to. It starts off like this: Christians may not be known for their sense of humour – but that could all be about to change if one Horley preacher gets his way. Hello? I am not a Christian, but if […]
Tags: Comedy·Local Papers·Religion
Dymaxion
October 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology
Today I found out all about Dymaxion and Buckminster Fuller. Such an interesting character: I can't believe I had never heard of him before. Fuller was an American designer, architect and inventor – and much more. He coined the phrase 'Spaceship Earth' and invented the geodesic dome. But he did so much more. In a […]
A political statement nobody could disagree with!
October 17th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics
I was reading about Gerald Ford today. Not being a political anorak, and being only 11 at the time, I did not realise that when he took over from Nixon it was after he had previously taken over from Spiro Agnew, so he wasn’t elected at all.
