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Entries from February 28th, 2012

The Geek Manifesto

February 28th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics

Over the weekend I finished reading an advance copy of The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson that Amazon sent me. The book is to be published in May and more information about it can be found at www.geekmanifesto.co.uk Amazon don’t really encourage lengthy reviews, so what I wrote only scratches at the surface of what […]

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IMAX coming to Crawley – or is it?

February 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off on IMAX coming to Crawley – or is it? · Life, Technology

The local papers are making a lot of fuss about the Crawley multiplex opening an IMAX screen next month. On the face of it this is a good thing. At the moment there are only 19 IMAX screens in the UK, so it is a bit of a coup. The only worrying thing is that […]

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Room 101

February 19th, 2012 · Comments Off on Room 101 · Life

Earlier on today I browsed through the BBC iPlayer for something to pass a half hour and settled on Room 101. I had caught this the other week and was a bit baffled by the change in format, but went with it because the new host, Frank Skinner, can usually be relied on to come […]

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Reasons to be cheerful – part two

February 13th, 2012 · Comments Off on Reasons to be cheerful – part two · Life, Music

A couple of other little things made this weekend a little bit special. Firstly a few CDs arrived on Saturday morning. Last weekend was Kraftwerk weekend on 6 Music, and after that I was moaning on an online forum about how listening to a few shows on iPlayer I tried to track down the first […]

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Reasons to be cheerful

February 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life

These are indeed miserable times: redundancies, below-inflation pay rises for yet another year for most of those in work, services deteriorating everywhere, NHS being dismantled, education system being turned into Gove’s own personal brainwashing operation, atrocities in Syria, and everything else. Sometimes it is hard to find anything to be cheerful about, apart from the […]

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The Man Machine speaks

February 4th, 2012 · Comments Off on The Man Machine speaks · Music

Right now I am listening to an interview from 2003 on the BBC iPlayer – an interview with Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk. Really. Somebody from the band that famously don’t do interviews and don’t even have a telephone in their studio, doing an interview on the BBC. It is all part of 6 Music’s Kraftwerk […]

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What the papers say

February 1st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life

Thre are a couple of interesting articles on the internet where people have gathered together a whole year’s headlines from a couple of newspapers. Bibliophylax did 2011 as the Express saw it and Scott Bryan did the same for the Daily Star. Very depressing it is too. I thought I might do a little analysis, […]

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