After mid-afternoon trip to DFS to order a nice new sofa — our old one
never really recovered from Abbi’s sofa dancing, and was tatty anyway —
we had a quick dinner, then went to the New Inn with Gavin for a pub quiz.
To our astonishment, it was £5 each! It turned out that this was a […]
After a nice civilised lunch at Ask, which left us unable to walk — only waddle — mine and Debbie’s paths split for a while, and I left her to her make-up and accessories shops. I spent some time in Fopp, some timelooking for Christmas presents, then on my way home I popped into the
Pump […]
Debbie’s still in bed. I’m up because I wanted I nice quiet read of the
paper, with a nice cup of coffee. But the paper’s not arrived yet. Bah.
Update: it arrived in the end. Nice excerpt from Peter Carey’s new book
on Japan. A free CD featuring, among other things, Paul Weller massacring
“All Along the Watchtower”.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you my impressions of Donkey Konga
and Singstar Party.
I bought my Gamecube in Canada, which has advantages and disadvantages. One
disadvantage is that I need to use a Freeloader disk to load European
games, and this doesn’t always work. It didn’t work with the copy of
Donkey Konga I borrowed from Paul while […]
Yesterday afternoon, after a delightful two and a half hours of jovial conference call banter with my fellow G-Force / QXL / G-Unit / G-Police transferees, Debbie picked me up from work, and we drove to Birmingham to see Joanna Newsom play her harp and sing oddly at the Glee Club.
Coming in along the […]
I’ve seen a few of the government’s current “Keep it safe, keep it hidden, keep it locked” TV ads — where a member of the public cheerily explains to a
thief what valuables they own and how to steal them.
Now, I make jokey comments about chavs and pikeys. It’s banter. I am,
however, a little bit offended […]
Since I lost patience with Bloglines, I’ve tried a few desktop RSS
aggregators. Neither is perfect.
The first is Sharpreader. This
is a Windows application based on the .Net framework. it’s the first .Net
application I’ve installed, which is quite scary in itself.
Sharpreader does much of what I’d expect: It presents your feeds in a
heirarchy. Unread items show in […]
Thanks Gary, for showing me these maps showing the distribution of US electoral votes in various
ways.
Regardless of the conclusions, it’s really cool presentation of data.
How about seeing the states sized proportional to values other than
population — for example by wealth, or by density of media moguls…
Oooh, where shall I start? (”Near the end?”)
I took a half-day on Friday so that Laura, Debbie and I could train down to London to see Cake at the Shepherds Bush Empire. Meeting up and catching the train was all hassle-free, and when we arrived in Marylebone navigation to our hotel — a short […]
What a nice man
that George W Bush is.