The internet has made it easy to get skint without leaving the comfort of your own home hasn’t it?  Got home from work this evening and finally got round to sposoring Eddie Izzard for his marathon of marathons. I have been following his progress on Twitter, getting increasingly impressed by the achievement, and intending to […]
Entries from September 15th, 2009
Sitting at home can be expensive
September 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Sitting at home can be expensive · Life
The Deep Freeze Mice
September 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music
I have been doing some random listening on Spotify this evening.  Sometimes, when the list of new additions is published I have a look down it and choose some tracks based on the criteria that I have never heard of the artists and they have an interesting name. Tonight it was Xyra, Jazz Sabbath, Bullet […]
Bang, boom, yippee-kayay etc.
September 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Bang, boom, yippee-kayay etc. · Life
For no particular reason I decided to assert my masculinity this week, and also get some use out of my TV and DVD player which otherwise sit idle most of the time. I watched Die Hard 4.0 again first of all. I wanted to enjoy the explosions and mayhem on one level but riducule the […]
The perils of targetted advertising
September 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life, Technology
As any fule no, targetted advertising works by looking at keywords on a page and then serving up an advert related to those key words. Unfortunately that means you sometimes get a situation where, for example, an anti-islamic, right-wing fringe group display a prominent ad on their front page for… a muslim dating agency. (As […]
Tags: Funny
Pigeon doping suspicions
September 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
While I find the idea of a carrier pigeon being faster than broadband attractive and very credible when it comes to trying to surf the web at lunchtime when everybody else in the building is doing the same, something doesn’t quite add up. According to the news story the pigeon flew the 60 miles between […]
Trevor Brooking is magic
September 10th, 2009 · Comments Off on Trevor Brooking is magic · Life
Seeing Trev in the crowd at tonight’s England game reminded me… this is what Jayne managed to get for me when she found herself on the same ship as TB last month. Might have to get a really huge frame to put it in.
Any colour you like
September 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
About five or six years ago televisions were all silver – or at least silver coloured. Likewise all the peripherals were nearly all silver-coloured – the DVD players, video recorders (they were still on sale then), surround amplifiers and so on. (By the way, in case nobody noticed, this is one of those boring idle […]
That would be an ecumenical matter
September 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on That would be an ecumenical matter · Politics
I seem to be in a bit of a YouTube mood today, draagging out old clips to brighten up whatever I am thinking about, but never mind. I think this is the last one. When Father Jack was going to meet the bishop, Ted coached him to just say ‘yes’ and if any question couldn’t […]
Keith Moon RIP
September 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music
Keith Moon died 31 years ago today. This would be a good time to remember the Who Are You video but that’s too obvious, so how about this clip of The Who doing their Beach Boys impersonation, with Moon on lead vocals! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Tags: YouTube
