Like many (most?) people who have more books than they ought to, I keep new books in a to-be-read pile and then squeeze them onto the shelves when I finish them.  At the start of the year this pile was quite daunting with the backlog of Vine review books augmented by Christmas presents, but during […]
Entries from March 26th, 2010
Question time on civil liberties
March 26th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Politics
I went along to the Civic Hall in Crawley to see how the meeting on civil liberties organised by NO2ID went. It had been advertised as featuring candidates from all the parties but since then the Labour candidate stood down and a new one has not been selected yet, so there was no Labour candidate. […]
Predators
March 25th, 2010 · Comments Off on Predators · Uncategorized
I do hope the new Predators movie is half as good as the website for it!  I just love the cursor on that site. It stands a chance of being a decent film – Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne and Danny Trejo are in the cast, it is produced by Robert Rodriguez, and of course there […]
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Furry friend
March 25th, 2010 · Comments Off on Furry friend · Life
It has been quite a cat-oriented evening today. As soon as I got home I had to take Chiquita to the vets for a scheduled check-up to make sure her scar is healing properly. Considering she ripped the stitches out within minutes of having the collar removed at the weekend, she is doing fine. The […]
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Blogger in draft
March 24th, 2010 · Comments Off on Blogger in draft · Politics, Technology
I spent more hours that I like to think about playing with Blogger in draft, which is the beta aspect of Google’s Blogger platform, to explore the possibilities of their new template design feature. It certainly is an improvement on the basic Blogger platform’s layout tools.
Totally Lost
March 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Totally Lost · Life
Instead of indulging our own hobbies individually, Jayne and I sat down together this evening for a session of catching up with TV.  Having watched last night’s episode of Heroes I realised that we were five weeks behind with Lost, and ended up watching three of them.
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Luck of the Irish
March 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
After a thoroughly damp and miserable day yesterday the weather turned glorious for today’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Crawley, a case of the luck of the Irish perhaps? This parade is one of the fixed points in the civic calendar and one of the events that celebrates the town’s multiculturalism, with participation not limited […]
Vince Clarke and the temple of Synth
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on Vince Clarke and the temple of Synth · Music, Technology
Vince Clarke is one of Basildon’s best exports, having been behind Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure. Obviously he knows a thing or two about synthesizers, but I didn’t know he was such a collector. This story/video shows his remarkable collection of analogue synths. Fantastic stuff.
Meeting people and getting wet
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on Meeting people and getting wet · Politics
I got a bit wet this afternoon and very wet this morning, doing various campaigning things. In the morning I was out in Broadfield doing some canvassing. It felt a bit weird doing that when we don’t have a parliamentary candidate at the moment, but of course we do still have a candidate in the […]
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The International
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on The International · Life
We watched The International on DVD this evening and it didn’t really do much for us. I picked up the DVD on one of those 3-for-£12 sort of deals, so at least didn’t waste too much money on it.  I didn’t know a lot about it but could remember Clive Owen being interviewed by Jonathan […]
