After watching that Rush/Foo Fighters video the other day I had a bit of a binge on looking at videos of drummers on YouTube. Unfortunately I just searched for all the obvious names like Neil Peart, Carl Palmer, Cozy Powell, Prairie Prince and so on, so I never came across this piece of virtuoso gurning […]
Entries from April 6th, 2008
Virgin Media – good news
April 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Technology
I have moaned a lot about the premium rate number for broadband technical support at Virgin Media. It was very unfair that it should cost money to report a fault on broadband, but not on television or telephone services, and now it looks like even Virgin agree with me
Tags: Broadband·Virgin Media
Local Election Candidates
April 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Politics, Technology
I may have mentioned in the past how bloody useless the Crawley Borough Council website is. This week’s example of uselessness is the obscurity of the list of nominations for the local elections.
Alternatives
April 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Alternatives · Life
A nice quote I came across yesterday about alternative medicine, alternative religion, alternative diets and all the other alternatives: It’s a good thing for people to examine an alternative , but dissatisfaction with the norm can also panic people into falling into love with the first philosophical piece of tail that falls upon their inward […]
Tin Whiskers
April 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Technology
Amazing how doing the right thing can turn out to have a downside. In the latest example of one problem being caused by the solution to the previous one is this article about tin whiskers, as if there is not already enough to worry about.
Tags: WILT
Global Radio
April 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Music
An article in today’s Guardian about Global Radio’s takeover of Gcap Media gave me pause for thought. I had not really thought about it all in terms of how the independent radio stations can compete with the BBC.
Tags: Radio
Watch what you eat
April 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics, Technology
The story in today’s Crawley Observer about food hygiene standards of local business was endlessly fascinating. There is nothing new about premises being inspected of course, but now the results are easier to find and easier to understand and compare.
Foiled
April 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
I wanted to play a small April Fool’s joke at work today. I thought it would be amusing to make a new label for the drinks machine at work so that instead of “chicken soup” it said “Soylent Green”. Unfortunately I don’t have access to a labelling machine, but that’s a good thing. I would […]
Tags: Films
