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Entries from June 30th, 2009

Walkman

June 30th, 2009 · Comments Off on Walkman · Music, Technology

The BBC made a 13-year-old swap his ipod for an original Sony Walkman for a week and then asked him what he thought.   What he said, and I am paraphrasing here, is: “Skuds – you are so old!  How did you ever get by with one of these?”  Well that’s how I interpreted it anyway.

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Crawley from above

June 29th, 2009 · Comments Off on Crawley from above · Life

Earlier today I saw a description of how to do fake tilt-shift photos, using aerial photography from multimap and a website called TiltShiftMaker, so I thought I would have a go. The results are not as good as using a proper tilt-shift lens.  They are not even as good as taking a decent high-res photo […]

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Jacko and the perils of publishing

June 29th, 2009 · Comments Off on Jacko and the perils of publishing · Life, Music

Over the weekend it has been hard to ignore Michael Jackson.  His name was on the front of all the papers in the newsagents, his songs were all over the radio and there was an unfeasibly large display of his greatest hits in HMV.   On top of that there was Q magazine with Jackson all […]

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Glasto

June 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Glasto · Music

I did not see much of Glastonbury this year, not compared to last year anyway – although I have a few hours’ worth recorded for a rainy day.   One thing I did see was Spinal Tap singing Big Bottom, which was pretty bizarre.  They had Jarvis Cocker joining them on bass guitar, but I’ll swear […]

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Drop ’em

June 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Drop ’em · Life

What a clumsy day it was today.   This morning I dropped and broke a cereal bowl while drying it. Later on I was putting the kettle on and knocked over a cup that still had some old coffee in it.  When I was doing dinner I dropped the lid from the olive oil bottle and […]

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Tennis

June 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on Tennis · Life

I think I would be more likely to watch tennis if the commentators were more like Richard Herring’s twitter feed.  His comments on yesterday’s Murray game: This guy is all over Murray. No wait! What a comeback 30 each! First to 100 right? Now they’ve both got 40. Can’t be long now 1 nil. Murray […]

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Unintended consequence of election

June 25th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics

This letter in the local paper after the election results attracted a few replies last week.  I’ll be surprised if there is not more reaction this week.  When it first appeared I read it a couple of times and I am still not 100% sure what point the writers were trying to make.

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Oh is this the way they say the future’s meant to feel?

June 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Oh is this the way they say the future’s meant to feel? · Politics

Interesting situation with this video by Don’t Panic.  It was on Youtube, but was taken down when Conservative Future claimed there was some sort of copyright infringement.  I’m no expert on IPR but it seems OK to me:  various members of the Cameron Youth were interviewed, and the interviews were put online – how can […]

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Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire

June 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire · Life

How come I only came across this programme when I already missed three episodes?  Unfortunately the BBC iPlayer doesn’t let you catch up with a series and at the moment only lets you watch stuff from the last week.   Only came across this while checking that the V+ box was set for Psychoville and thought […]

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Armed forces day

June 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Armed forces day · Life

Saturday is Armed Forces Day.  Its OK to have not heard of it because this year is the first one. The official Armed Forces Day flag is flying outside my workplace at the moment, and I was genuinely surprised by it because it is the top half of our national flag, with the caption under […]

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