My new Moo cards arrived the other day. On a whim I decided to order some conventional-sized business cards instead of the helf-height Moo cards I had before. Feeling in a modern frame of mind I did not include any address or landline – just mobile number, email address and URLs for this blog and […]
Entries from November 13th, 2009
The bad science of global warming
November 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on The bad science of global warming · Life
Is this story about the acceleration of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet another example of what Philip Circus would call ‘the bad science of global warming‘? Just another bit of bandwagon-rolling by those ‘eco-fascist’ scientists with their faddy peer reviews and millions of dollars worth of imaging satellites I suppose Phil?
Tags: Global Warming
Betty Boo and other delights
November 11th, 2009 · Comments Off on Betty Boo and other delights · Music
Just looking through this week’s update of 63,270 tracks on Spotify. The first thing to catch my eye was Betty Boo’s 2007 comeback single Take Off, which I had not heard of before, let alone heard. A bit hi-nrg, gay-disco for me, but it got me all nostalgic for Betty Boo and got me to […]
Tags: Spotify
Why I won’t be playing Modern Warfare 2
November 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Technology
The number one reason why I won’t be playing the new Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare 2 is that I haven’t played Modern Warfare 1, or any of the other Call of Duty games – I leave that sort of thing to the Mrs.  The main reason why I haven’t played any of the […]
Tags: Games
Unusual song titles
November 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Unusual song titles · Music
I have been listening to a couple of artists today who have not real common ground musically, lyrically, or any other way, but both of them do seem to specialise in song titles that are out of the ordinary in their own way. The two artists are Morrissey and Nile.
Recent Spotify additions
November 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Recent Spotify additions · Music
In the last week or so there have been about 140,000 new tracks uploaded to Spotify, with the usual mixture of good, bad and what-the-hell.  There have been some big names like Robbie Williams, Slayer and Foo Fighters as well as welcome obscurities and some that just have intriguing names. Here are a few that […]
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My own Berlin Wall memories
November 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on My own Berlin Wall memories · Life
I don’t have any proper Berlin wall memories. I have never been to Berlin. The closest I got was a couple of trips to Nuremburg. I can remember a colleague at work jumping on a plane when the wall came down so she could be part of history, and she came back to work with […]
Tags: Germany
Retromancer
November 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Retromancer · Life
Yesterday I finished Robert Rankin’s latest book, Retromancer, which hits the shops on December 17th.  Just in time to be the ideal Christmas present for any Rankin fan. My uncorrected manuscript proof (thanks Sis!) let me get ahead of the crowd, although at the expense of missing out on the illustrations – I may have […]
Money in the Labour movement
November 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on Money in the Labour movement · Politics
Money is as important to the various organisations within the Labour movement as it is to any capitalist entity. Well, maybe not exactly: it is not chased or accumulated for what it is, but it is very much appreciated for what it can do, and necessary. No point having hundreds of willing volunteers to deliver […]
Hold the front page!
November 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Hold the front page! · Life
Credit where credit is due. Having wound up the Crawley Observer a bit last month when they got caught out by events, it is only fair to comment on the way they included the story about falling masonry on the front page this week. ((Also fair to point out that the Crawley News also managed […]
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