Masthead
One of my photos

Entries from March 25th, 2009

Street Life

March 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Street Life · Life, Technology

I am really loving Google’s Street View at the moment.   Google’s cameras have not yet penetrated West Sussex so I can’t look at my house, but that doesn’t bother me too much: if I wanted to do that I could just go outside.   What I have been doing is ‘visiting’ old haunts to see if […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·····

Such big numbers

March 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Such big numbers · Politics

Some of the numbers in this story about illegal tenants are staggering.    Illegal tenants are those renting a council or housing association home from  the official tenant who is not living there but sub-letting it. On the face of it, there seems to be no problem.  Won’t a lot of those tenants be paying something […]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Commentary

March 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Commentary · Music, Technology

The new Pet Shop Boys album, Yes, was released today and I went on to Spotify to listen to it.   You don’t really fire up a new PSB album and expect any surprises, but this had one at the end: not a hidden track ((Horrid things.  Can’t stand them)) but a commentary track like you […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

Walkies

March 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Walkies · Life

Having got up fairly early (for a Sunday), got the dinner ready and bubbling away, and mowed both front and back lawns I decided to go and take my cameras for a walk. For a change I went to the Leechpool and Owlbeech woods. The place is supposed to have lots of nature, and sure […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

Slow

March 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life

Jayne’s sister gave us a slow cooker that she didn’t want any more.  Today I am using it for the first time and I can’t really get my head around it.  The thing is huge: I bought a load of stuff for a stew yesterday in the quantities that would normally fill my old stew […]

[Read more →]

Tags:

A good day

March 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Life, Music

Today ticks all the boxes for being a good day: West Ham didn’t lose Man Utd did lose – thus keeping the Premier League interesting for a while longer Crawley Town won – keeping them within touching distance of the play-offs Went shopping and came back with what I went out for (new trousers) Went […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

A great start

March 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments · Life

As any fule no, the best ever first line for a book is Iain Banks’ The Crow Road ((“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”)) , and nothing really comes close to that.  Having said that, I started reading Robert Rankin’s latest book, Necrophenia, yesterday and it does start well: It was about a week […]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Sparks flying

March 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music

Somehow Jonathan Ross’s show has ended up as one of the best places for music on TV these days.   It is not just that he sometimes gets the biggest names on there, but that he often gets people on there giving totally awesome and/or memorable performances.

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

Clever but pointless

March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Technology

If the internet did not exist we would not have this.  How do people think of things like that? Not sure whether to be amused, impressed or just meh.

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

The Black Swan

March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life

I have just finished reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which has left me reeling a little bit. It is sort of about maths and economics but also about philosophy and science generally.  I think that somebody recommended it to me in a comment on this site, but I can’t remember who that […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··