I have heard a lot about Eric Pickles putting adverts onto Spotify to promote the Tory party and I listen to a lot of music on Spotify, but I have not heard the Pickles ad at all. What I have heard many times is the Spotify advert aimed at advertisers, boasting about how they target […]
Entries from November 16th, 2009
Proof that targeted advertising works?
November 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Proof that targeted advertising works? · Music, Politics, Technology
The Circus of unearthly delights
November 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
Hot on the heels of his utter denial of global warming, Philip Circus has used his column in the West Sussex County Times this week to apply his (sadly not) unique wisdom on housing provision and his conclusion seems to be that we don’t need any.
Tags: Housing·Idiots·Immigration
Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled
November 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled · Music
I don’t know when it happened, but Spotify now have Ambrosia’s 1976 album Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled.  I used to have the vinyl LP of this – maybe I still do – and listened to it a lot in the 70s when it was one of only a few dozen LPs I owned. I probably […]
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The real shock about Belle du Jour
November 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
The author of notorious prostitution blog Belle du Jour, has finally discarded the cloak of anonymity and revealed herself. I haven’t actually visited the blog, read the book (I am assuming there is one) or even seen the TV adaptation starring Billie Piper, but, like the X-Factor, it is one of things you can’t escape […]
Tags: Scandals
The return of Top Gear
November 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on The return of Top Gear · Life
I see that Top Gear is back on BBC Two tonight. To mark the event, here is a letter from Friday’s Guardian that rather ticked me: The format of Top Gear can scarcely be called original (G2, 12 November). For over 30 years the BBC has had thre old codgers doing daft things and getting […]
Tags: TV
Cameron on faith
November 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
I’m always a little worried about politicians having strong beliefs in god: you really want those in charge to make decisions based on logic rather than faith after all.  But what caught my eye in this story about David Cameron’s beliefs is not what he says about religion but what he says about psychology: Politicians […]
Where did that three years go?
November 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Music
An advert for Robbie Williams’ new album popped up on Spotify yesterday. It said how it was three years since his last album. I quite liked Rudebox but genuinely thought it had only come out last year. I was so sure I went to a couple of websites to check it out and it really […]
Tags: Spotify
Hitler banned from Xbox Live
November 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Hitler banned from Xbox Live · Life
One day I will get bored when every story in the news gets its own Downfall parody on YouTube. Fortunately that day has not yet arrived, so here is Hitler learning that his hacked Xbox has been blocked by Microsoft. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Mandelson on top form
November 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Mandelson on top form · Politics
Unfortunately, at the time we met Peter Mandelson I was unaware that he had won the Politician of the Year award yesterday. Reading this report it sounds like he was on good form. When accepting his award from Boris Johnson he said that he and Boris would be doing everything they can to undermine David […]
Tags: Funny
Meeting Mandelson
November 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Meeting Mandelson · Politics, Work
Today was the long-awaited official opening of the new site where I work. Personally I have been in the new buildings for just over a year, but the industrial building with all the labs and test and manufacturing facilities took longer to finish, and now the company has decided that enough of our operations have […]
Tags: Crawley·Trade Unions
