The photograph illustrating this story in the Guardian is good for playing the parliamentary version of Where’s Wally?. Unfortunately it is not reproduced in the online version of the story. Shame. It would be a good one to put up on Flickr and try to get notes labelling all 350-ish Labour MPs in there. Took […]
Entries from February 14th, 2006
Pulse
February 12th, 2006 · Comments Off on Pulse · Music
I am getting a bit annoyed about Pulse. Back in November it was supposed to be coming out on DVD in time for Christmas and I was dropping major hints to Jayne about it. When she tried to buy it she was told by the shop that it was not coming out until January. I […]
Tags: DVD·Pink Floyd
I found that essence rare?
February 12th, 2006 · Comments Off on I found that essence rare? · Technology
Why change the title to that? Well I felt like a change and that song title from Gang of Four just appealed to me. It was a toss-up between that, To Hell With Poverty, Damaged Goods and At Home He’s A Tourist and then I remembered their concert last year and how stunning ‘Essence’ was […]
Tags: Blogging
Smoking in private clubs
February 12th, 2006 · Comments Off on Smoking in private clubs · Politics
The smoking lobby is never short of new angles, and whichever committee or pressure group is quoted, you know it is the tobacco companies behind it all – and why not? Every restriction on selling, using or advertising tobacco represents a potential loss of profit for them. The current battleground is the ban on smoking […]
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Prescott puts the boot in
February 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on Prescott puts the boot in · Politics
I never thought I would find myself praising John Prescott’s use of the English languauge, but he seems to have given up wrestling it into submission and has come up with some great quotes at the Blackpool conference: “What we have is Cameron the chameleon. He can change the colour of his skin at will.” […]
Tags: Tories
Winter Olympics
February 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on Winter Olympics · Life
I caught a bit of the opening ceremony tonight. That was impressive. Some lovely and effective bits of staging in there. I especially liked the way the entire crowd seemed to be wearing white. This made the 35,000 audience part of the staging as lighting changes could make the entire stadium a different colour, including […]
Kiss
February 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on Kiss · Music
I was had the TV tuned to a music channel, as I often do when I am not really watching, and Kiss came on. They were performing Crazy Nights in plain clothes. By plain clothes I mean relatively normal garments like t-shirts instead of those black and silver costumes they used to have, and they […]
Tags: TV
How many web sites do you need?
February 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on How many web sites do you need? · Technology
Wikipedia has been in the news a lot recently, and the ‘fifth column‘ in the Guardian had another story today, this time about political staff changing the entries for their bosses. Two statistics in there really made me stop and think. I don’t know where they came from, or whether they are correct. If they […]
Tags: Internet·Statistics
African Cup of Nations
February 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on African Cup of Nations · Life
I caught hardly any of the African Cup on Tv this time round, despite the generous provision of coverage, but two things which I did see stand out. Mido getting substituted was brilliant television. Most players do not like being substituted, but Mido took it further than everyone else by having a stand-up row with […]
Tags: Football
RIP Ron Greenwood
February 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on RIP Ron Greenwood · Life
Ron Greenwood deserved to be a lot more of a household name than he was. The fashionable thing to say is that he won the World Cup for England before he became manager, through his nurturing of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters at West Ham and it may be true. What is beyond […]
