Just noticed that WordPress v2.7 is now available on my host’s Fantastico package so I think I’m going to upgrade right now. Been itching to do it since 2.7 came out, but having been spoiled by having Fantastico doing all the installations and upgrades here I was really reluctant to go back to doing such […]
Entries from January 15th, 2009
Graham Stringer
January 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
The most efficient responses to Graham Stringer’s bizarre outburst about dyslexia would be one word long. “Idiot” for example. Other responses could be book-length disections of his remarks. I’ll seek the middle ground on this one…
Tags: Education·Idiots·Medicine/Health
Council’s help
January 15th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics
The Crawley News has a piece about the council’s measures to help the town’s economy and try to protect residents from the worst effects as the global economy melts down. Its a very laudable ambition and I’m sure some of the measures are very sensible, which makes me feel a bit churlish to snipe away […]
Tags: Crawley Council
Pointless
January 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Pointless · Life, Technology
I looked at the call registers on my mobile phone today, leading to two questions:
Tags: Gadgets
Artful dodger
January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
David Cerny must be laughing himself hoarse about the fuss over his sculpture. Not just at the chance to have a pop at every other country but for the wide-boy chancer way he got the commission and let the EU think the work was getting the involvement of artists from all the other countries.
Autobahn
January 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Music
This evening I discovered that the song Autobahn appeared on one of those Top Of The Pops LPs in the 70s. I may have to turn my life into a quest to hear this version, just to hear what a bunch of session musicians did to it.  is it good? Bad? So bad its good?
Tags: Kraftwerk
