I seem to have the photographic equivalent of writer’s block. It is now January 10th and I just realised that I have not taken any photographs at all this year – apart from a couple of pictures of smoke shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Entries from January 10th, 2008
Sound and vision
January 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Technology
My DVD player is playing up a little bit. Sometimes it says “no disc” when there is one. No problem: eject and re-insert and it works fine. Probably just needs the DVD equivalent of a head cleaner, but it got me thinking.
An easy mistake?
January 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics
Hats off to Tom Watson for pointing this out! It appears that his local (Tory) MEPs have a bit of trouble recognising their own constituency.
Tags: Birmingham·Doh!·Idiots·Tories
Atomic
January 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
I just caught the end of a programme on TV tonight which really made me wish I had sat down and watched it from the begining. It was on BBC Four and was called Atom. Fortunately it is repeated at 2:00am tomorrow so I have the V+ box set up to record it.
Irony (part two)
January 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
An interesting evening’s viewing on TV tonight.
Sex sells
January 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
I am writing this for the amusement of Owen; I know he has an interest in the topic and has written about it himself before now. Its just three things I came across in the media in the last few weeks, which all seem kind of connected:
Tags: Local Papers
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…
Tags: Doh!·Local Papers
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 […]
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 […]
Tags: WTF
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.
Tags: Holidays
