Yesterday we received a mailshot from James Plaskitt, our erstwhile MP and now parliamentary candidate.
“Dear Resident,” it begins, “The election has been called and the stakes couldn’t be higher.”
Reasonable enough. For the next bit, they shift the intensity up a bit, by switching to a bold font:
“Here in Warwick & Leamington it’s a straight [...]
Let me tell you a little something about Google Maps: they have some lovely technology — the scaling and the dragging is lovely and fast and smooth — but the site as a whole has flaws. Map features appear and disappear between scales. There is no scale displayed anywhere on the page. It’s all [...]
We skipped board gaming, instead going to Abandon (a-band-on, gerrit?) at The Jug, with Steve and Gav.
We were way too early, but this meant we got a nice table near the front, while almost everyone else was standing. First on were local band The Royal Finger Puppets. A three-piece, they played tight, intense rock. [...]
My copy of the new Decemberists album, “Picaresque” arrived today. It’s too early to judge it: I can’t see myself disliking it though.
Hearing track 8, “The Engine Driver” reminded me in a roundabout way of Nizlopi’s “JCB Song”. Nizlopi are a Leamington band, with an actual recording contract, an album and everything. They’re even [...]
Choices video’s world cinema shelf is a feast of £2 rental bargains, and on Saturday we rented two Japanese oddities.
Uzumaki
Uzumaki is about a small town cursed by killer spirals. This is as odd as it sounds. People get obsessed by spirals then kill themselves in spiral related ways, others slowly transform into snails, others [...]
Although we’ve communicated electronically, I’ve not seen Dave since he turned up to my 30th birthday do in wrist splints.
On Saturday he called out of the blue to see if we wanted to do anything NOW. Not really in the mood for the pub, we invited him to the house for a cuppa and [...]
Queen Victoria / traffic cone - (Flickr user ukslim).
On our way into town to get a mobile phone contract and some lunch from the “Authentic French Market”, we spotted this classic interpretation of an old theme.
By the time we passed it again on our way home, a dutiful public servant had cleared it [...]
crane-tall - (Flickr user ukslim).
On our way to meet Laura for lunch at Moo, not only did we bump into Abbi and have a chat, but we also witnessed some workmen in the process taking down the crane that’s been towering over Leamington for the past several months.
Quite a crowd had gathered to watch [...]
The Public Whip’s quiz has fewer questions than the whoshouldyouvotefor one, but it compares your answers to your MP’s voting record. It still says Lib Dem…
The rest of the site is pretty impressive too.
Using my elite skills, I made a robot out of Perl, and had it give whoshouldyouvotefor.com every possible opinion on each question, to see what effect it had.
(Confession: my first pass at doing this involved asking every possible combination of opinions - which would have involved making 523 = 1.192 × 1016 requests to [...]