There is a lot of confusion about what ‘big society’ really means either in theory or in practice, but I don’t think any of us really expected it to be this.  Westminster council are in consultation over a bylaw to essentially make it illegal to be homeless or to help anybody who is homeless with […]
Entries from February 28th, 2011
Gang of Four: Content
February 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Music
I’ve been listening to Gang of Four’s new album, Content, on Spotify this evening. It really is a magnificent album right from the metronic funk of the opening track to the abrupt end of the last track. In fact it is nearly as good as their debut album Entertainment! and that is not damning it […]
Tags: Gang of Four·Reviews
The Expendables
February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on The Expendables · Life
Following an afternoon spent haemorrhaging money at the opticians, we watched The Expendables on DVD on Saturday evening. It is almost a dictionary definition of ‘star-studded’ and boasts a cast featuring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Micky O’Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Jason Statham and Steve Austin. An action film with some of the […]
Christ on a bike
February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Christ on a bike · Life
The weekend got off to a good start with a couple of trips to Brighton on Friday.  First Jayne and went down for a look around and to do some shopping, which also involved a delicious full English breakfast.  After taking her and her goodies home I went back with the kids to see Richard […]
More quiziness: Feb 16th & 2010
February 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life
A few more questions from last week’s quiz. One set are all about Feb 16th (the date of the quiz) and another set are all about last year. The quiz was originally scheduled for Jan 19th when 2010 would have been fresher in the memory. I had to scrap my set of questions based on […]
Tags: Quiz
Revenge is sweet
February 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life
Over the weekend I watched two films on DVD which turned out to be variations on the same theme: revenge. Both are stories of somebody left for dead by a group of people, but who survives and returns to get their revenge. The films were I Spit On Your Grave and 22 Bullets. Both were […]
Virgin Tivo
February 19th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Technology
I found out about two new things from Virgin Media today. The first was by accident: a lot of people at work are having trouble connecting their company laptops through our encrypted VPN if they have Virgin broadband and I was looking for possible reasons for this. While doing this I noticed that their XL […]
Tags: Gadgets·TV·Virgin Media
Picture quiz
February 18th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Life
In response to Peter, I’ll post a few questions, starting with a few that you can’t Google anyway. Quizzes often have picture rounds, and it is really easy to get pictures of anything you want in the internet age and the invention of Google Image Search. Of course going on an image search can get […]
The quiz from hell
February 17th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Life, Politics
Tonight’s quiz could have gone worse, but it could have gone better too, and having a depressing self-critical streak I know where I went wrong. I think the questions were better suited to an event where they could be given time. A lot were ones you probably wouldn’t know, but could have a good guess […]
Reggae Britannia
February 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Music
Last night I watched Reggae Britannia on the BBC’s iPlayer. It was a worthy addition to BBC Four’s xxxxx Britanna series but, as always, it was frustrating to see what was missed out. I know you can’t fit absolutely everything into 90 minutes, but not even mentioning Misty in Roots in passing? Of course, any […]
Tags: TV