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Entries from October 23rd, 2008

Don’t Bring Me Down

October 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Don’t Bring Me Down · Life

Wouldn’t it be fun if TV interviewers had a trapdoor button under their desk, like all good Bond villains, so that if they didn’t like an interviewee they could send them down to the crocodile pool?  Looks like they do in South Africa.  OK, they say it was just a collapsing chair, but has anybody […]

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No Sleep Till Brooklyn

October 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on No Sleep Till Brooklyn · Music

I am going to have to go to bed, but I really don’t want to.  I have the TV tuned into this Africa Express concert in Camden and so far it is brilliant.  I would love to carry on watching it but I do have to go to work in the morning and the show […]

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Hanging On The Telephone

October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life

Several times in the past I have banged on about damaged cable TV/telephone distribution boxes.  I used to call Virgin Media to report them but gave up after being faced with a distinct lack of interest from them. The only time I would persevere now is if the one that feeds my house is open. […]

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Stay Up Late

October 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Stay Up Late · Music

How long has this been going on?  Last night I half-watched Later Live on BBC 2 (the V+ was recording it so I wasn’t paying too much attention) and then an hour after it finished there was what I still think of as Friday’s show.  I especially wanted to catch the show this week because […]

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

October 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Smells Like Teen Spirit · Technology

Its a serious security issue, but for some reason when I see a headline like Keyboard sniffers to steal data it just sounds like its going to be about a particularly obscure perversion.  Well….  would you let a keyboard sniffer babysit for your children?  I haven’t checked out the original source material but my mind […]

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Bizarre Love Triangle

October 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Bizarre Love Triangle · Life

Tonight I watched the second of this month’s DVD from Amazon’s Vine programme: Triangle.  Fortunately this was not the dodgy 80’s ferry-based TV show with Kate O’Mara in it, but a Chinese action film.  Here is what I thought:

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Games Without Frontiers

October 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Games Without Frontiers · Life

Over at Flickr there is a real treat for fans of Creative Commons, Open Source and other similar hippy concepts. The Dutch national archive, in collaboration with Spaarnestad Photo have put about 400 photos online for everybody’s enjoyment.  As if that is not enough, the national archive have about half a million low-res scanned photos […]

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Don’t Point Your Finger

October 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Music

I found Alan Yentob’s programme on the history of the guitar to be superficial and largely unsatisfying but there were two bits in it that made me glad I watched it.  The first was Johnny Marr who was charming, unassuming and a joy to listen to, the second was the story of Tony Iommi’s fingers.

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Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)

October 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

Well not my birthday but Jayne’s.  Instead of material goods I treated Jayne to some memories this year.  For a long time she has really wanted to go to the London Dungeon.  We did try to go once before but the queues were two hours long so we gave up: this time I booked tickets […]

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Lip Up Fatty

October 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Politics

According to the Crawley News, the West Sussex PCT is spending £200 million a year extra because of obesity in the county.  One particular issue the PCT has identified is childhood obesity, and they have launched a joint initiative with Mid-Sussex council to adress it. One thing that can help in the fight against obesity […]

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