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Entries from January 20th, 2009
Things to not think about #94
January 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Tags: Family·Global Warming·Holidays
Blue sky thinking
January 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Life, Technology
Having had some small involvement in aviation, rubbing shoulders with fellow members of the LGA’s aviation special interst group and the Gatwick area consultative committee, I am on nodding terms with the theory of hub airports. As a result I can sympathise with notion that Heathrow as it stands will not be able to compete […]
Bye bye Bellamy
January 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
Just a week ago I could well have read this news with some degree of despair, but after a weekend that saw the Hammers win well without Bellamy even on the bench I am a bit more sanguine about our future prospects.
Lennon’s on sale again
January 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Lennon’s on sale again · Life
There was a John Lennon CD given away free with the Mail on Sunday today. Apparently, if you turn the volume right up you can just about hear the sound of him spinning in his grave.
Tags: WTF
The long-player goodbye
January 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
The book in which I was reading about Patti Smith is The Long-Player Goodbye” by Travis Elborough – the the sub-title “The album from vinyl to iPod and back again”. I finished it this week, and the reading of it got a bit spooky at times.
MPs’ earnings revisited
January 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
I do not make a habit of responding to comments in one post by creating a new one, but in this case I thought I would following the sudden outbreak of discussion in an old post from 2007. The post was about the earnings of MPs and I think it is worth re-visiting because of […]
Tags: Greed
Gravatars
January 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Gravatars · Technology
One of the few visible changes resulting from my upgrade to WordPress 2.7 is that gravatars are now enabled here. They are supposed to show up in the ‘recent comments’ box but they don’t, and that is something I have to look into, but they are showing up in the comments of individual posts – […]
Double books
January 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
In Waterstones yesterday I saw a double book. Very confusing. It was a combination of Mark Gatiss’ first two Lucifer Box novels. Looks like a normal book but when you turn it over to look at the back there is there is the front cover of another book.  So it has two fronts instead of […]
Tags: Books
Old tunes
January 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Jane, Music
While I was in town to get my eyes seen to I did some browsing. I had a little time to kill before my appointment, and then more time afterwards while waiting for Jayne to finish work and come down to help me choose frames. (I don’t really care what glasses look like: I only […]
The vision thing
January 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on The vision thing · Life
Just recently I have been getting a few headaches at work and decided I should start wearing my glasses more. I tend to forget that I have them and wear them very rarely for several reasons, not least that Jayne calls me Harry Potter whenever I do. It was not really helping much and when […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
