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Entries from August 7th, 2010

The Napoleon of crime

August 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life

The BBC say that this week’s episode of Sherlock will see him face to face with Moriarty.  So far Gatiss and Moffat have done a good job so I hope they don’t make a mess of this.

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Told you so

August 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Politics

Back in March we (in Crawley and Horsham Labour parties) were delivering a leaflet with the title “Be Afraid”.  It was aimed at council and housing association tenants and described Tory plans to reduce the rights of social housing tenants. Local Tories were shaking in faux outrage, accusing us of scaremongering.  Less than six months […]

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No hugging and no learning

August 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life

Interesting story at Chortle about the Americans’ attempts to re-make The IT Crowd. Three years ago they made a pilot which was a bit like the failed attempt at doing Red Dwarf – sticking slavishly to the original script, keeping one member of the UK cast – but now they are going for it again, […]

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Is it 18 months already?

August 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off on Is it 18 months already? · Music, Technology

Spotify still feels like a new toy, but it appears I have been using it for about least a year and a half now.   Soon after I started on Spotify I started scrobbling to last.fm and I have just reached the milestone of having listened to 20,000 tracks since then.  Looking at the statistics on […]

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