The artist Piet Modrian did not use the colour green in his paintings. He would not even allow the colour green in his house. The artist Thomas Schütt is well enough known to have a whole room full of his stuff at the Tate Modern, yet he is too obscure to get even a passing […]
Entries from November 20th, 2006
What I learned today
November 20th, 2006 · Comments Off on What I learned today · Life
Tags: Art·Tate Modern·WILT
Disaster!
November 19th, 2006 · Comments Off on Disaster! · Technology
My PC has finally packed up. It is an ex-computer. It is not even any good as a paperweight because its too big. Bugger!
Game On
November 17th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Technology
The Science Museum have an exhibition called Game On. Looks like fun: it is dedicated to the history of computer games from the earliest, right up to the latest. It is £8.50 but you do have the opportunity to play lots of the games. I think that if I went I would not get any […]
Lost in (e)music
November 16th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Music, Technology
I have now been using the emusic site for a couple of months and have downloaded some real treasures. The thing is that even though I am happy with what I have got, and satisfied that its good value for money, I shall probably ditch it in a month or two. At the moment I […]
Political Opinions
November 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
How long has this Political Opinions site been going then?
Selected
November 15th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics
I forgot to mention… Jayne and I both got selected last week. She will be standing in a ward where we really ought to win. I will be standing in the Tory heartlands again and will be lucky to get 10% of the vote. Miracles can happen, but I probably have more chance of winning […]
Tags: Elections·Family·Labour Party
The power of political blogs
November 15th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Politics
Now that we are less than six months from another lot of local elections it might be a good time to think about the power of political websites, specifically blogs and how they will affect the outcomes. Having thought about it, my opinion is that they will have little or no effect, for several reasons: […]
TV Heaven
November 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
I go through long periods of hardly watching any television, which is silly considering the huge bloody set I bought. I often leave it on, tuned to a music channel or comedy channel as background, but might only actually watch a couple of specific programmes. I think I may have to change all that: either […]
The Book of Dave
November 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on The Book of Dave · Life
At the moment I am reading Will Self’s latest novel The Book of Dave. I have been reading it for a long time now, because I am finding it hard work. Since I started reading it I must have read at least half a dozen other books and I am only about a third of […]
Another search
November 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on Another search · Life
Another search I spotted today. Somebody from a West Sussex County Council IP address tried to search within this site for “renberence day” and then for “rememberence day”. I do hope that particular address belonged to one of their schools and not County Hall. Not that it is a good thing for pupils in our […]
Tags: Education·Language·Schooldays
