Apart from Metallica at the O2 this month, there is anotherconcert to look forward to this year: Spizzenergi‘s 30th anniversary gig at the 100 Club in May. (Advance tickets here for a tenner each)
Entries from March 18th, 2009
More music on the horizon
March 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on More music on the horizon · Music
Tags: Concerts·London·Nostalgia·Spizzenergi
Canvassing in Horsham
March 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Canvassing in Horsham · Politics
I had a really pleasant afternoon yesterday, going out with some colleagues to knock on doors in Horsham and chat to voters.
Homework
March 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Music, Work
A trip to visit somebody in head office this afternoon gave me a chance to catch up on some homework. It is a 30 to 45-minute drive each way and no chance of distractions – I do not have a company mobile phone and certainly no hands-free kit so no chance of phone calls. It […]
Told you so
March 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Told you so · Politics
[Cross-posted from Common Endeavour] I am rarely in a position to say “told you so” but someone who is in a great position to utter those words is Naseem Nicholas Taleb. I am nearing the end of his book The Black Swan (published in 2007) and on page 225 he says: We have never lived […]
Scrobbling
March 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Music, Technology
Apparently I have been scrobbling, and it is not as painful as it sounds. It just means that I connected my Spotify up to Last.fm so that it feeds information on what I have been listening to. I have made a conscious and arbitrary decision to not scrobble from Windows Media Player, but since getting […]
Tags: Internet
Friday 13th – lucky for some
March 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Friday 13th – lucky for some · Politics
I’m very chuffed to see that Lindsay Hoyle’s private members bill got through yesterday, but more than a little disappointed by the suggestions that the government whips tried to block it.
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What Women Want
March 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Jane, Life
I heard the results of a survey on the radio yesterday morning (at about 6.30am so I didn’t hear any details of where the survey was done…) which came up with the thing that women envy most about men. Given the wage gap, worldwide maternal mortality, the use of rape as a weapon in various […]
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For the chop
March 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on For the chop · Politics
At last – a provider of social housing that has a worse attitude to its tenants than Crawley borough council who may have lied to their tenants and tried to coerce them but have never (as far as I know) resorted to outright blatant threats. This card was sent out to tenants of a housing […]
Gay scientists
March 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Gay scientists · Life
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Thanks to Stroppybird for posting about this. It has been on Youtube for about a year, but I hadn’t seen it before, and it gave me a bit of a laugh.
