Just noticed that WordPress v2.7 is now available on my host’s Fantastico package so I think I’m going to upgrade right now. Been itching to do it since 2.7 came out, but having been spoiled by having Fantastico doing all the installations and upgrades here I was really reluctant to go back to doing such […]
Entries from January 15th, 2009
Graham Stringer
January 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
The most efficient responses to Graham Stringer’s bizarre outburst about dyslexia would be one word long. “Idiot” for example. Other responses could be book-length disections of his remarks. I’ll seek the middle ground on this one…
Tags: Education·Idiots·Medicine/Health
Council’s help
January 15th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics
The Crawley News has a piece about the council’s measures to help the town’s economy and try to protect residents from the worst effects as the global economy melts down. Its a very laudable ambition and I’m sure some of the measures are very sensible, which makes me feel a bit churlish to snipe away […]
Tags: Crawley Council
Pointless
January 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Pointless · Life, Technology
I looked at the call registers on my mobile phone today, leading to two questions:
Tags: Gadgets
Artful dodger
January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
David Cerny must be laughing himself hoarse about the fuss over his sculpture. Not just at the chance to have a pop at every other country but for the wide-boy chancer way he got the commission and let the EU think the work was getting the involvement of artists from all the other countries.
Autobahn
January 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Music
This evening I discovered that the song Autobahn appeared on one of those Top Of The Pops LPs in the 70s. I may have to turn my life into a quest to hear this version, just to hear what a bunch of session musicians did to it.  is it good? Bad? So bad its good?
Tags: Kraftwerk
Battery
January 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Technology
I’m almost certain that every mobile phone ever has had one, certainly all the current models, every mp3 player I have seen had one (except an original iPod shuffle for obvious reasons), my old minidisc player had one, all my digital cameras have one: I am referring to a little display that says how much […]
Tags: Gadgets
On the other hand…
January 13th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Life
…once you get over the unwieldy size, Frankenstein mish-mash of loose single pages and unfortunate section breaks, and the duplication with other papers the West Sussex County Times is not all bad.
Tags: Horsham·Local Papers
Frustration
January 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music
Jayne’s school are doing some sort of thing about different countries this week. As part of it they wanted music from a variety of countries: Australia, Scotland, the Caribbean, Uganda, Spain and some others. Knowing that I have a fair few foreign records she asked if she could borrow some of mine.
Tags: World music
Chart fun
January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music
This has to be the best chart I have seen in ages… the heavy metal band names flowchart. ((OK, so its not really a flowchart as we know it))  Its not perfect (no Saxon for a start, Pantera are not foreign and Ragnarok is not in the book of revelations) but its both fascinating and […]
Tags: Band Names
