At work we have TV screens in corridors which display various company announcements, traffic news towards going home time, and usually has BBC News either full-screen or in a window depending on the time of day. No sound, but the BBC News has the closed captioning turned on. Today I was walking past a TV […]
Entries from April 18th, 2011
Writing on the wall for Vince Cable
April 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on Writing on the wall for Vince Cable · Politics
Tags: Lib Dems
Paying for Spotify
April 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Paying for Spotify · Music, Technology
While I’m not overwhelmed with happiness at the idea of Spotify putting more limits on its free service I’m not totally distraught either. If anything I’m a bit surprised they have survived so long while offering so much for nothing. At the end of the day, if you want to provide music legally a lot […]
Tags: Spotify
Not spam but…
April 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Not spam but… · Life
I’ve just received an email which is not strictly speaking spam; just junk mail. I must be on somebody’s mailing list for ridulously expensive and pretentious events because from time to time I get invitations to buy tickets for Eric Clapton concerts with VIP privileges for a small fortune and similar. In fact the presence […]
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Unfathomable spam
April 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on Unfathomable spam · Technology
A fine crop of spam caught in the comments queue today, which I really don’t understand.  With a lot of spam comments I can see what they are trying to acheive – trying to get a URL published somewhere so it counts as a link and improves a page’s raking on search engines usually, but […]
Tags: Spam
Regarding Ducks and Universes
April 11th, 2011 · Comments Off on Regarding Ducks and Universes · Life
Today I finished reading a book called Regarding Ducks and Universes by Neve Maslakovic, another one from Amazon’s Vine programme. This what I thought about it:
Maf the dog
April 11th, 2011 · Comments Off on Maf the dog · Life
Last week I finished the Maf the Dog book, or to give it the full title: The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroe, which was another book I got through Amazon’s Vine programme.  I actually got it last year, at which time there was a bit of a […]
Top of the Pops
April 9th, 2011 · Comments Off on Top of the Pops · Life, Music
Like many people, I have been wathcing those old 1976 TOTP episodes on BBC Four with some interest. I must have watched TOTP every week, or nearly every week for the couple of years around 1976 so I’m amazed to find quite so many performances I had entirely forgotten, sometimes by artists I had completely […]
County council expenses
April 8th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Politics, Technology
There are a few inconsistancies in the Crawley News story about county councillor expenses which are genuinely baffling. One councillor, Brenda Smith, claims that the council’s email system is a secure system which you can’t access using your own computer so you have to have county council hardware to access it. Another councillor, Duncan Crow, […]
Tags: Churnalism·Expenses·Local Papers
Phone hacking
April 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Phone hacking · Life, Politics
There was quite an amusing row between John Prescott and an ex-NOTW hack straight out of central casting. It might have been better if they were not always talking at the same time. Maybe it is an age thing but I have noticed that I find it harder to listen to two different things at […]
Tags: Newspapers
Ten years already?
April 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Work
At work today I received an email from somebody in HR, telling me that in a couple of months I will have been with the company for 10 years. It doesn’t seem like that long, partly because I did 6 years in one part of the company then transferred to a totally different job in […]
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