I am so glad to see a new site called Spotify Playlists which has been set up by a bloke called Trevor. It is something that really needed to exist, so much so that I was tempted to do something similar myself just to collect together all the various playlist I have been coming across […]
Entries from February 28th, 2009
Crawley’s godlike genius
February 28th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Music
Not that i was too bothered about it, or indeed bothered at all, but I missed the Brits because I was away on holiday, and the Oscars for more or less the same reason. To make up for this lack of exposure to back-slapping awards shows I saw the NME Shockwave awards on TV tonight.  […]
Spotify. Again
February 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music, Technology
I’m still chuffed with Spotify, and it really seems to be picking up now. It featured on the BBC’s 10 o’clock news tonight and is getting mentioned all over the place. I’m sure this means that the userbase is growing rapidly, possibly even exponentially, but the response is still at the shit-off-a-shovel end of the […]
Tags: Internet
Friday 13th
February 27th, 2009 · Comments Off on Friday 13th · Politics
On Friday 13th Lindsay Hoyle (Labour MP for Chorley) is introducing a private members bill – the second reading of the Statutory Redundancy (Amendment) Bill. Fridays are days when many MPs traditionally head back to their constituencies, making it hard to get such bills passed. My union is supporting this bill very strongly, as they […]
Tags: Labour Party·Trade Unions
Bonus culture
February 26th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Work
I found out this week that I am to become part of the bonus culture that is being so heavily criticised. Last year our company pay offer was split into two during negotiations with the union. As part of offering a lower percentage that we asked for, they added a proviso for a one-off payment […]
Tags: Money
Collyer’s Politics Society
February 26th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
After work today I rushed over to Collyer’s, a school in Horsham, to meet with their politics society. Very interesting. I might write more about it, but probably not here:  the amount of politics on this site has been getting lower and it is likely to get lower still because I have found a new […]
Bring me the head of Prawo Jazdy
February 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
I have not really caught up with the last week’s news yet, but I did greatly enjoy this story from Ireland, which falls in the you-couldn’t-make-it-up category.
Half-term holidays
February 23rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Life
The absence of any new waffle here lately is because we have been away for half-term, spending a week in Tunisia. Quite exciting really because it was the first family holiday abroad for about six years I think and the first time I had been on a plane at all since going to Amsterdam exactly […]
There goes Concorde again
February 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music
A work colleague brought in a song for me to listen to recently. He thought I might enjoy it so he brought in a minidisc of it… which ties in very nicely with the previous post about data formats.  I gave up trying to find the minidisc walkman that I know is around somewhere and […]
Tags: WTF
About time too
February 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on About time too · Technology
Anyone who has ever had to sort through old backup tapes will welcome this idea.   I have a slight suspicion that the 4 million euro cost is under estimated, as all major IT projects are. I am equally confident that the estimated costs to business are overstated, but even if the cost doubles and the […]