I am already used to Spotify being a good place to hear new music that I have read about, but now I am starting to find that it is the place to discover new releases too. Prime example: Manu Chao has a new live album out and the first I knew about it was seeing […]
Entries from October 24th, 2009
Baïonarena and other recent Spotify highlights
October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on Baïonarena and other recent Spotify highlights · Music
Hole In The Wall still need contestants…
October 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Hole In The Wall still need contestants… · Life, Politics
Yet another Downfall parody – must get round to watching the actual film: I do have it now. This one is a different clip to the usual one, which doesn’t feel right somehow, but still good. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Griffin highlights
October 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Griffin highlights · Politics
Here are the highlights from last night’s Question Time, for anybody who missed it. With a smidgen of selective editing… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Fat Hitler on #bbcqt
October 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics
Well that was entertaining. ‘Dick’ Griffin, as one audience member called him was about as uninspiring as could have been expected and seemed to take a perverse pleasure in metaphorically dropping his pants, inviting everyone to queue up to kick him.
Not a normal Thursday
October 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Jane, Politics
Its been an interesting week so far. It began with a phone call from a contact at our local paper (the mighty Telegraph & Argus) asking if I would be interested in attending a meeting with a very senior cabinet minister? He would be visiting Bradford and wanted to hear from community leaders, business people and […]
Fast and furious?
October 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Fast and furious? · Technology
Does it look faster here?  Do pages load any quicker?  I have tried installing a couple of plugins for WordPress: GZIP Pages and WP Minify. Unfortunately the pages rendered all wrong but worked again when I disabled WP Minify. Maybe I could fix that with lots of work, but I can’t be bothered with all […]
Tags: Wordpress
I, for one, welcome our new private equity fund overlords
October 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on I, for one, welcome our new private equity fund overlords · Life
I’m feeling a bit sorry for the Crawley Observer. It hit the streets today with a story on page 19 (right next to the one with the wonderful headline of ‘The squirrel whisperer’) about Gatwick airport. The headline was “Gatwick sale could take some time yet” and it started by saying: BAA’s owners have scotched […]
Tags: Aviation·Gatwick·Local Papers
Twisted Firestarter
October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Here is a photo of what happened when I felt a little peckish and made some toast under the grill. My new theme song is: I’m the self inflicted, mind detonator. Yeah. Im the one infected, twisted animator. I’m a firestarter, twisted firestarter
Tags: Doh!
Those little moments you live for
October 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Those little moments you live for · Life
Last wednesday Chrystal passed her driving test. By Friday she had found a little cheap runabout that she liked the look of so we went off to look at it.  During the drive there Jayne was driving and I was riding shotgun. Chrystal was in the back where we couldn’t see her. I happened to […]
The gift that keeps on giving
October 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on The gift that keeps on giving · Life
I watched Goldmember again tonight. There were a few jokes or references I didn’t get before because I have been catching up on stuff in recent years so there are some things I hadn’t heard of the first time round, though I probably should have. Prime example was in the Japanese sub-titles bit where Austin […]
