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Entries from January 6th, 2008

Irony

January 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Irony · Life

As the first comment on this story points out, the question in the ‘Analysis’ section has kind of got overtaken by events…

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Sex Patels

January 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Music

John Angliss is plugging this band at the moment.  Good find!  But having listened to a few of their cover versions on MySpace I don’t know why John prefers The lunatics have taken over the asylum to the stunning version of Once in a lifetime. I never realised how much the song could be improved […]

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Influences

January 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Music

I already thought that Manu Chao was brilliant, and then I came across an interview in Word magazine this month in which he was talking about his early years when kids in the neighbourhood were all getting their music via home-taping.  He was asked whose records he was copying and said: Doctor Feelgood, the only […]

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Back to work

January 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Work

I am looking forward to tomorrow: Jayne is back at work, Chrystal is back at school and Charlie is back at college.  I went back to work on Jan 2nd and it has been really annoying getting up and going out while everyone else is still snoozing.

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics

January 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

Only I couple of weeks ago I was pouring scorn on a set of meaningless statistics, and now there is another set which is not as bad but which says the opposite.

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Timewarp editorial

January 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Politics

This week’s Crawley News cleared up a little confusion I had about the previous week’s editorial.

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