Today and yesterday I have been working my way through the Yazoo box set In Your Room.  I have been able to give it my full attention because all my subtle hints about the new Metallica album coming out a week before my birthday fell on deaf ears.
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Shooting Star
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
The round-up of the Paralympics on the BBC tonight showed a bit of the shooting competition, where Matt Skelhon won a gold medal. I hadn’t seen coverage of Paralympic or Olympic shooting before – possibly because it is one of the least TV-friendly sports so doesn’t get shown much
Rediscovered words
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Yesterday’s Guardian carried a small story about the Tate gallery having an exhibition of paintings by Western artists that have an Eastern subject. The headline was “Gateway to the East: Tate shows rediscovered works” but it the story itself contains something of a rediscovered word… look in the antepenultimate paragraph and there is the quote: [...]
Slowing down
May 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Technology
One other reason why I use less fuel than the average is that I tend not to drive very fast. I’m not as slow as Jayne likes to make out, its just that I go more for gentle acceleration and braking than certain other people in this household. What I did not know, having never [...]
Random trivia
May 10th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Life
I read somewhere yesterday that Socrates was a trained sculptor. I can’t remember exactly where I read it or what the context was, but its just the sort of odd thing I enjoy discovering.
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Soteriology
May 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
I like learning new words. Today I learned about a word called ‘soteriology’ which is, apparently, a branch of theology that deals with salvation. Its going to be tough trying to shoehorn that one into casual conversation or a blog post!
Tin Whiskers
April 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology
Amazing how doing the right thing can turn out to have a downside. In the latest example of one problem being caused by the solution to the previous one is this article about tin whiskers, as if there is not already enough to worry about.
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Die Hard 4.0
January 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
Last night Jayne and I unwound by watching Die Hard 4.01 on DVD. The plot is quite easy to explain – its the same as the first three films. or Live Free Die Hard as it was called in the US [↩]
Burning up with Puta’s Fever
November 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Music
I quite like Mano Negra. That is "quite like" in the sense of having all their albums, a few singles and EPs, a VHS tape (which is SECAM so I can't play it and in French anyway so I can't understand it), and fond memories of seeing them play at the Forum and wearing the [...]
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Whooosh!
September 12th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Technology
I have never given much thought to zeppelins before, so one statistic in a programme on channel Five tonight stopped me in my tracks. It was one of those popular technology-type programmes. The sort which usually features massive buildings or bridges. The one tonight was about airships. The amazing statistic was the speed of the [...]
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