I’m still reading When The Lights Went Out – Britain in the Seventies.  It is all about events thirty years ago, but has some very topical echoes, especially on the very scary page 413…
Entries from June 3rd, 2009
The drums
June 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Music
Some days you just need to watch a drum solo or three. I have been known to get out the music DVDs and watch the Prairie Prince solo from the Tubes Wild West Show, the John Bonham Moby Dick solo from the Led Zep DVD, Neil Peart from Rush Live in Rio and then wrap […]
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Greenfingers
June 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Greenfingers · Life
Its funny the things that make you miss somebody. Jayne is away this week on a school trip, leaving me and the kids to wreck look after the house. As she has taken our only surviving car with her, it leaves me a bit stranded here. By the time I have cycled up that hill […]
More temptation
June 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on More temptation · Technology
I got a letter from Virgin Media yesterday, telling me that 50Mb broadband is now available here…  very tempting. That is starting to get respectable – but still there is the frustration that the upstream speed is only 1.5Mb. (As somebody who remembers feeling dizzy when v.32bis came out I feel slightly odd saying “only […]
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Racists have no music
June 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Racists have no music · Music, Politics
Not quite true… there might be the odd Oi! band and some really bad morris dancing music, but nothing that would sustain anybody I know.  Cracking video from Love Music Hate Racism. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Micro four thirds
June 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on Micro four thirds · Technology
As it happens I am quite happy with my combination of a Canon EOS 1000D for normal use and a Canon Powershot 590 for when I really can’t carry a DSLR around and as both are less than 6 months old I don’t intend to be in the market for a new camera in the […]
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