I just realised today that I don’t use my garden. Sort of. It is useful because otherwise I would have nowhere to keep a shed, and if I didn’t have a shed I would have nowhere to keep the lawnmower but that is a bit of a circular argument since without a garden I wouldn’t […]
Entries from August 31st, 2009
This is how the CIA kills terrorists using Predators
August 30th, 2009 · Comments Off on This is how the CIA kills terrorists using Predators · Technology
I can’t embed it, but the video is here. Looks uncannily like the way the CIA kill civilians as well…
Crawley village
August 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
There has long been a light-hearted debate about whether the Maidenbower neighbourhood in Crawley is a village or an estate ((its an estate)) but now the BBC seem to be saying that Crawley itself is a village according to this story.
Tags: Crawley·Crawley Down·Maidenbower·Photos
Spotify stuff
August 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
I see that the Spotify app for the iPhone has been approved by Apple’s App Store. Less than a month after I decided, when getting a new phone, that there was nothing about the iPhone to make me want it. Never mind. This evening I have been listening to some stuff from the recent enormous […]
The Scottish government was right
August 26th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics
Gordon Brown has now given his thoughts on the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. Sort of. He has voiced his opinion on the crowd reaction at Tripoli airport but not said anything about whether he agrees with the decision to free the man in the first place. I’m happy to be a little less circumspect […]
Tags: Terrorism
Crowdsourced traffic
August 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Technology
Google’s announcement about expanding traffic information on Google Maps (in the US) is fascinating stuff both technically and sociologically. What they are doing is collecting data from mobile phones that have GPS-type functionality and tracking how quickly they are moving along main highways so that information about traffic problems can be overlaid on their maps […]
Tags: Internet
Sadowitz in Brighton
August 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on Sadowitz in Brighton · Life
Jerry Sadowitz is famously offensive, vulgar, obscene and provocative but he would have had to go into overdrive to give me a bigger shock than the price of a drink at the Komedia!  The place is probably not more expensive than other clubs, its just that I don’t go out very often and even then […]
Home alone
August 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Right now I am rattling around the house on my own. Chas is still at work, Chrystal has gone out to a birthday barbecue and Jayne… she is in Ireland at the moment, after which she will be going to Spain and France before returning home. It is really strange. Last week we had our […]
Ashes
August 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
I’m not really into the cricket, but even I have heard about this Ashes thing. Presumably there will be the now-traditional open-topped bus in Trafalgar Square in the next day or two. Could be interesting for whoever is on the 4th plinth at the time. Depending on their outlook they will either feel totally upstaged, […]
Local boy on the plinth
August 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Local boy on the plinth · Life
I was browsing through the One & Other web site today, looking for the video of the bloke who did a Tony Hancock impersonation. I didn’t find him, but I did find ‘bobnoxious‘ who looked very familiar… it is indeed a keen cyclist and photographer from Crawley. Never met him, but he is one of […]
