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Today’s bright idea #1 25 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
Sometimes I have ideas. I never do anything with them. In many cases this is probably just as well – I am thinking here of the Zimmer frame/pogo stick hybrid that would never have got funding from the...
Slim pickings in Gosport 20 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
On Sunday we went down to Gosport to visit Chrystal. Readers of this blog who don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook might be unaware that Chrystal moved down there recently, having done two amazing ...
Vote me! 15 Aug 2013 | 04:35 am
This year I decided to put in nomination papers for the local council elections. For various reasons I have been quite absent from politics for a couple of years, but I’m feeling a lot more up for it ...
40,000 and counting 14 Aug 2013 | 02:49 am
Tonight I reached the arbitrary but round number of 40,000 tracks scrobbeld to Last.fm. A lot was from Spotify, but I guess a fair chunk was from Windows Media Player too. To celebrate, I made sure t...
All caught up? 12 Aug 2013 | 05:37 am
Despite working in technology companies for most of my career I am hardly ever an early adopter of any new technologies. I was very late in getting a CD player , still buying vinyl years after CDs cam...
Yes I have been away 8 Aug 2013 | 03:09 am
Anyone who cares, which may well be nobody, will have noticed that I have been taking a break from the blog. No real reason, or at least nothing I want to share, but I thought I might start dipping my...
Eight Psychopaths 8 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
A good day yesterday. The postman delivered an eagerly-awaited package containing the DVD of Seven Psychopaths, and the CD boxset of Doctor Feelgood (1974-77 the Wilko years). Now I know that Wilko is...
Election time again 29 Apr 2013 | 05:01 am
It is election time again, which sounds like it should be the name of a Fall album, but probably isn’t, and again I find myself standing as a candidate. This time it is the county council elections an...
Lenny walks 13 Feb 2013 | 02:43 am
While nothing I have heard about him makes me inclined to like him, I don’t think the news of Lenny Walker getting the sack as a cabinet member of Crawley council is a good thing. Specifically, it is ...
For the hard of hearing 22 Jan 2013 | 06:55 am
The other day I was going through the EPG on the TV and saw that Arthur Penn’s classic Bonnie & Clyde was being shown in the small hours on one of the ITV channels so I set the box up to record it. To...
