The other week I was listening to Radio One's Live Lounge during my couple of bonus days at home between jobs. The guest that day was someone called Mika, who I had never heard of but who seemed to be generating a lot of hysteria from listeners. It turns out that my having never heard […]
Entries from February 11th, 2007
Self-portrait with laptop
February 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
Well that is what I thought it looked like anyway… There is a painting at the Rijksmuseum called Self Portrait with Landscape by Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen. When it popped up on my screen in the brilliant Rijkswidget it really did look like a nineteenth-century laptop!
Classic cinema
February 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
Yesterday a story in the paper asked ‘Where did all the great movies go?’ The gist of the article was that twenty years ago you could see lots of worthy, classic films on terrestrial TV channels, but now they pander more to the lowest common denominator. Something like that anyway. I can see what the […]
Pot at school
February 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politics
If Dave Cameron smoked a few joints at school then good luck to him, but he still deserves some criticism: not for having a sly puff but for the sheer precociousness of doing it at school and not waiting until university as tradition demands. I doubt if anyone at my (state) school had ever seen […]
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