Good news on the Manu Chao front! New album coming out in September, currently on tour in North America until July (so a chance he will be in Europe to promote the album) and a new track available for free download on the Manu Chao website. Speaking of which, that is still the most chaotic […]
Entries from June 17th, 2007
Freak gardening accident
June 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
The phrase ‘freak gardening accident’ will always bring This is Spinal Tap to mind, but they do happen as the Argus reports this week. Fortunately the victim was not a heavy metal drummer so survived with only the loss of 18 inches of hair. Still, the story does raise more questions than it answers. While […]
Tags: Films·Newspapers·WTF
Cat Wrestling
June 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
If Blair thinks that the media is a feral beast, what would he make of our cat? Last week Jayne removed his collar because it was getting tatty and had ruworn some of his fur away, but now the bell can't warn the wildlife of his approach our garden and teh woods out the back […]
Tags: Pets
On Safari
June 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology
This evening I downloaded Safari from Apple to see what it is like. it is not that I am unhappy with Firefox, but there is a sort of novelty value to having Safari running under Windows and a certain amount of hype about it, so I thought I would see if any of it was […]
Michael Tolliver Lives!
June 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
After a gap of some 18 years, Armistead Maupin has finally written another instalment of Tales of the City, called Michael Tolliver Lives, which is great news but is likely to cause a reading crisis here. It is so long since I read any of those books I am out of touch with the characters […]
Tags: Books
Social Homebuy
June 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
We had a letter from our housing association today telling us that we now have the right to buy our house, or a part of it, under a scheme called Social Homebuy. Our first reaction was “Why would we want to buy this place – it is far too likely to fall down before the […]
Tags: Housing
Essential website of the day
June 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Essential website of the day · Life
I stumbled across this website earlier today and it stopped me dead in my tracks. It is absolutely brilliant, taking pointlessness to a whole new level, being dedicated to telling you the correct way to spell a word which you have to spell correctly to type in the URL. Just knowing that there is someone […]
Just for Jane
June 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
It appears my sister has a weakness for puerile innuendo and double entendre, and is currently channelling Finbarr Saunders. Exhibit 1 Comments here about the Wii games console Exhibit 2 Comments on her own Flickr photo of cormorants or shags So can I direct her to page 64 of the current Argos catalogue, the gardening […]
Dad rock
June 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Music
I had a look in HMV to pass a few minutes on Friday and noticed that Father's Day is imminent. You can tell because there is a whole display near the door containing endless CDs of 'drive time' classic rock, Top Gear all-time classics, classic rock, and ELO's greatest hits. Basically you can't move for […]
Tags: Family
What’s a magazine Grandad?
June 9th, 2007 · Comments Off on What’s a magazine Grandad? · Work
I have been reading the trade paper Computing, or similar publications for more than 20 years. At first I felt it was a good idea to keep up-to-date with industry goings-on as I was in an IT job within a major computer manufacturer. Now its more out of habit than anything else. The industry has […]
