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Entries from January 31st, 2011

An auspicious start

January 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on An auspicious start · Politics

I see that Crawley has spawned a new blog: the author is Peter Lamb.  I have every confidence that he will fill the gaping hole left in the Crawley blogosphere by Danivon moving up North.  OK, so he hasn’t actually written anything yet, but I have a good feeling about it because he comes highly […]

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Vivian Maier

January 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Vivian Maier · Life

There are some remarkable photos by somebody called Vivian Maier over at this site. It appears that she took photographs, thousands and thousands of them, around Chicago from the 1950s onwards, possibly for her own amusement.  Many were not even developed before she died.  Somebody bought a job lot of her photos and films at […]

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Harvester of Sorrow

January 30th, 2011 · Comments Off on Harvester of Sorrow · Life

Last night I found out where Metallica got the inspiration for their song Harvester of Sorrow, when we went out for a meal.  I won’t say where, but if I say it wasn’t called Sorrow, you will probably guess. There were about twelve of us and a few had been working, in one case up […]

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10 O’Clock Show Glee

January 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on 10 O’Clock Show Glee · Life

“Glee” referring not to joyous satisfaction with Channel 4’s 10 o’Clock Show (though it did hang together better this week, with less of last week’s nerves) but to one of the guests on there: Professor Glees, a soi-disant ‘terrorism expert’. He was such a scary example of swivel-eyed paranoia that I suspected he might be […]

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Slight embarrassment for Smith and Maude

January 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Politics, Technology

There is an amusing story in The Register today.  The headline is Tory MP accidentally endorses… German pr0n site and it is all about the old website for the Pease Pottage hospital campaign. What happened was that the registration for the domain name for the campaign (c4pph.org) was allowed to lapse and it was hijacked […]

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The bleeding obvious

January 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on The bleeding obvious · Life

Looking at the headlines that appear in the Guardian’s feed today I see there is: Financial crisis was caused by corporate mismanagement, says US government Electrical goods store staff ‘lack basic knowledge’ Tyrannosaurus rex study reaffirms its predatory credentials Still waiting for a ‘Pope is Catholic’ headline to appear, and something about bears and woods.

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Steampunk Palin

January 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Steampunk Palin · Life, Politics

Some things are so absolutely bonkers they defy description, and I think that Steampunk Palin must be one of those things, though Comics Alliance have a go at it. They say: If you consider yourself a devoted gatherer of such oddities, your collection is not complete without it. But that does not diminish the fact […]

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10 O’clock Live

January 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments · Life, Politics

For a change I actually watched 10 O’Clock Live in real time today.  I had the V+ box set up but noticed it was 10pm and went down and turned the TV on. I was a bit underwhelmed by it, but my expectations were very high.  It could have been funnier, it could have been […]

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‘Unrest’ in Tunisia

January 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on ‘Unrest’ in Tunisia · Politics

This whole Tunisia thing has caught me by surprise a bit.  I’ve been to Tunisia a couple of times and never realised things were that bad.  I never really looked into it and sort of assumed that Bourguiba was the ‘baddie’ and the present government were an improvement. I feel a bit foolish now, and […]

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More Sherlock

January 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on More Sherlock · Life

Very underwhelming news that there is to be a new Sherlock Holmes sequel out in September. I’m sure it will be very good, and I know I will be buying it (or hoping I receive it as a birthday present) and enjoying it – just like I enjoyed the couple of shelves-full of Sherlock Holmes […]

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