School holidays started this week. There is something depressing about continuing to go into work every day when the Mrs. keeps reminding you how she is off for the next five-and-a-half weeks. It would help if she didn’t keep rubbing it in so much. It was already bad enough being there while everyone else in […]
Entries from July 26th, 2008
Harmonic Generator
July 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Music, Technology
Over at Wongablog, Andrew has been trying to get to grips with the Rock Band game, with mixed results. He may find it encouraging to see what happened when Rush tried the game and failed on their own song… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Forgotten Ground
July 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
For the last couple of days there has been a group of caravans parked up in the big layby outside the Broadfield Stadium. Is this the group of travellers who have been in town for several weeks now, setting up home in Maidenbower, Three Bridges, Furnace Green, Southgate, etc.? No. I think they are visiting […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Football·Travellers
Tesla Girls
July 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Tesla Girls · Life
Another goodie from Amazon’s Vine programme was a book called The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt. It is set in New York in 1943 and features the inventor Nikola Tesla, his encounter with Louisa, a chambermaid at the New Yorker Hotel where he lives, the life of Louisa and her father, and pigeons. […]
American Gangster
July 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on American Gangster · Life
The other day I received a film called Brooklyn Rules from Amazon, through their ‘Vine’ programe. I’ll admit it was not one I had heard of before so I approached it with no expectationsone way or another. For what its worth, here is what I thought:
Unfathomable
July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Thats putting it mildly. The story of the murder of a pregnant woman called Kia Johnson in America plumbed new depths. It still has to go to court so mentally insert “allegedly” wherever possible here but the way it is being presented is that an obviously disturbed woman with a history of baby-snatching offences befriended […]
The Magic Piper (of Love)
July 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on The Magic Piper (of Love) · Life
I knew that my intention to do my bit for the planet and recycle song titles for blog posts was not original – I have seen it done before. What I did not realise is the the esteemed Bob Piper has been quietly doing it for some time now. I always keep an eye on […]
Tags: Blogging
Natural’s not in it
July 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
I have just seen the sport edition of Mastermind with Des Lynam occupying the Magnus Magnusson/John Humphrys seat and I still can’t believe it. I have never seen a TV presenter looking less relaxed. I stumbled across a review of this the other day which said the same thing at great length and I thought […]
Smooth Operator
July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
This evening I shaved off the beard I have had for about ten years. I just felt like a change. Jayne isn’t happy so I will probably grow it back when I take my holidays from work, thought I still don’t know when that wil be. Soon I hope – It feels weird and its […]
Tags: Blogging
Schmap
July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology
Only yesterday I was remarking on people using Flickr photos for all sorts of websites and books. By coincidence I received a mail today from one of them. A couple of my pictures have been on the Schmap website for a while, but they are now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. I don’t […]
