Volume 38
29 Apr 2002
28 Apr 2002
The cherry blossom has been fantastic this year and it has been going on for weeks too.
26 Apr 2002
Got my digital radio working again using the software at DAB Bar. It really is a good idea - I just wish I could get a nice cheap, portable DAB radio. Maybe in 10 years time.
I don't know if this is the ITV Digital website or not, but the content seems highly inappropriate!
nth position is an online magazine/ezine with politics & opinion, travel writing, fiction & poetry, reviews & interviews, and some high weirdness. Some good stuff here.
Hmm, I spoke too soon, you can get it from amazon uk (well possibly)
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer - I wonder if you can still get hold of it? I can't find a copy at the moment.
25 Apr 2002
japan photo gallery - I bet GMTplus9 has done this one already, but it is very good, so it is worth mentioning.
24 Apr 2002
So you're Nokia, and you hire an advertising company to get people to sign up for stuff via your website. The campaign they come up with is funny and makes web related jokes and mentions websites such as mysteriousstrangers.com and mysticnorman.co.uk. Of course you register these names and make sure that they do more advertising for you? Well, actually, you don't and all of the names fail. You'd think they would be a little more clued up tah this, and their advertising agency certainly should have been.
23 Apr 2002
RIP Linda Lovelace
22 Apr 2002
Does catless seem faster? For me it is much faster as the move means that I am 100Mb all the way to it rather than having a 10M section to pass. I don't know if the route to the outside world had that though.
I suddenly found myself playing Limehouse Blues this morning - something I have never done before. Odd.
21 Apr 2002
I was wondering if it was worth starting to put odd combinations of words that google doesn't find, on this page, a la Misterpants: for instance, Neroli Lesbianism
My son has dug out his Megadrive (Genesis) and he and some friends have been playing it all day.
It rained today for the first time in ages and the garden sighed with relief. Everything burgeoning all over the place. The asparagus is springing up, though not in huge quantities yet - still too young. Today I changed a light fitting and did yet more plastering - I really hate DIY.
Catless will be off tomorrow for an indeterminate period as we are moving machine rooms. I hope the interruption to service will be short.
20 Apr 2002
Remember my mention of "Dance like Larry King"? Only two hits show up when I search now, one of them is here, and the other is *NOT* Misterpants. How odd.
19 Apr 2002
Vegetarianism via the US National Library of Medecine. I would have thought it was un-american to be a vegetarian, possibly even close to terrorism.
A Glossary of Terms Useful in Critiquing Science Fiction. I don\'t see definitions of \'badly written\', \'poorly thought out\', \'nonsense\' or \'utter crap\' here.
18 Apr 2002
I hope you\'re all going to listen to the Sharpeworld pirate broadcast. (I am doing so as I type...)
Illinois State Tartan? I bet it is hideous. And what sort of abomination is National Tartan Day!
17 Apr 2002
Colorbot : "Color theory is demonstrated before your very eyes" Of course, my eyes only see colours but never mind.
16 Apr 2002
12th International Drying Symposium Including Minisymposium Advances In Paper Dewatering AIPD2000
12 Apr 2002
Mmmm, hot coffee and cold marguerita...
The Recent History of Roatan, Honduras: Developing Paradise. I am not entirely sure that I would describe somewhere with that many houses as paradise!
Virtual Ryoanji Project : Implementing a Computer-assisted Collaborative Working Environment of a Cyber-garden
I just found a link to "Centrospermae on postage stamps", but the site is unavailable. Sounds sticky.
11 Apr 2002
Current U.S. Air Traffic - very slow to start. I am astonished that this information is available.
William points out that the Eruo makes price comparison rather too easy : Ikea NL, Ikeae DE. No prizes for guessing which price is the most likely to change!
10 Apr 2002
I\'ve just downloaded the 0.9.9 version of Mozilla and I must admit that it does look rather good. It seems pretty fast and some of the features that let you look at the content and structure of pages are excellent - very useful if you want to debug what is going on.
Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age (There is a book called "Tolstoy\'s Bicycle" that provides this kind of information)
9 Apr 2002
Myers of Keswick (Well, of New York actually) Shouldn't they cater for expatriats rather than expatriots who are surely people who used to love their country but no longer do?
Well, not so wonderful, the CD appears to have been deleted. *sigh* and I just found another 3 CDs with Blind Blake alternate takes on them that I don\'t have. *double sigh*
Why am I looking for the grumbler\'s song? Well, my mother has it on a 78 that I believe she acquired from an uncle who was an evalgelical (and a ladies hairdresser). The 78 has Meeting in the Air and the grumbler\'s Song on it, and i have just found that I can get it on CD from Document records. Wonderful.
Ten Commandments for the Tongue from the Book of James. I was trying to find the words for the Grumbler\'s Song, this page has the chorus (which I know), but none of the rest of it.
Man beaten to death with iron bar : "The suspect spoke of hearing "a voice from heaven," among other unusual things, leading police to question his mental health, police officials said." Other unusual things?
8 Apr 2002
Inspirational Sport Statues "Handpainted resin statues on a solid wood base are the perfect gift for every young Catholic athlete. These statues portray Jesus actively participating with boys and girls in a variety of sports. A wonderful way to reinforce Jesus "as friend" in everyday activities. Sizes vary from 4 3/4 to 6 1/2 inches." Sounds illegal to me.
Dressings.org contains an exhaustive list of woundcare products, including the famous SMTL dressings datacards. I like that "woundcare products"
See, you have a good idea and then you find it\'s been done : "Which online personality test are you?"
6 Apr 2002
Here\'s an article that is about an idea I had several years ago, but could never persuade anyone to take seriously enough to get me the resources to implement it. *sigh*
Aaagh, Barry Manilow look alike.... Actually I think he looks more like the young Liberace than BM. There is also a touch of Paul Young in there too.
What ancient video game character are you? I am a pacman ghost. I think that I am becoming bored with these "what kind of" pages. Perhaps I ought to do a "what kind of what kind of page are you" page.
4 Apr 2002
Thanks to the nutlog for pointing me to this site that has B.C. comics on it. Sadly, I just discovered that Hart is a bit of a religious nutcase so I just went off him. I may have to get rid of all the BC books I bought years ago. Here is a great rant about him and some of the claims made about his readership.
Another steal from Misterpants, but you really ought to read this investigation into those "Work from home" ads you see all over the place.
Damn, I sent some items this morning and they haven't appeared. Need to do them again.
3 Apr 2002
OK, so you probably saw this already via the ever brilliant Misterpants, but this clip is fantastic. I bet some of the others are just as good too.
Went to the theatre again lat night (how cultured am I?!) to see Pandora\'s Box - a kind of riff around the Wedekind Lulu plays. I enjoyed it a lot.
1 Apr 2002
I was in the Dover bookshop in London and they had a 15 CD set of scans of images reduced from 149UKP to 80. I would have loved to have bought it, but first, I couldn't afford it, and second, if I am entirely honest, I really wouldn't have used it that much. The same was true of some design books I was looking at in Magma Books (well worth a visit) - I just couldn't justify buying them, even though I really wanted them. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to walk into a shop like that and say "one of everything please".
Planted shallots, garlic and onions yesterday as well as doing a lot of jet washing of paths and things. Lots of burgeoning in the air.
31 Mar 2002
RIP Barry Took
30 Mar 2002
Jesus Images - or perhaps that ought to be Jesus! Images! These have to be some of the creepiest things that I have ever seen. Look at the juggler for instance - Jesus (I assume that's who the hippy is supposed to be) is looking at something else altogether and the juggler has clearly hit himself in the face too many times with a club. Or what about Dental Assistant? Stephen Spielberg in the chair and again Jesus is looking somewhere else. And Surgeon - notice how Jesus is guiding the man's hands without looking! Why would anyone want to create images like these? If I thought I was being attended at all times by this 60s throwback in a robe who seems to have a weird line in hand movements I would be very worried indeed. You can understand why Islam forbids images.
I\'ve been listening to Tone Poems III, a selection of tunes played on slide and resophonic instruments by Mike Auldridge, Bob Brozman and David Grisman. It is simply wonderful - I love that resophonic sound. I must investigate the I and II of the series which concern themsleves with guitars and mandolins.
29 Mar 2002
28 Mar 2002
One sad thing I found in London was that Neal Street East was closing in a week. It is one of my favourite shops and has been there since 1963. The landlord tripled their rent....
Incunabula (well, sort of, but not the sort that Peter Death Bredon Wimsey would have been interested in)
Monday, we went to see My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal which was excellent - the staging was amazing, though the seats in the gods were somewhat uncomfortable!
On Sunday night we went on the London Eye again, this time just as it was going dark, and I highly recommend the experience as the lights give a different aspect to the town.
Was in London Sunday - Wednesday this week. Went to see the Warhol exhibition at the Tate Modern. I'm glad I went, but I was not that taken with many of the images in real life - many of them look better in reproduction, but the ideas were great. The gallery is well worth a visit, though I didn't get a chance to go round much of it - the room full of Rothkos is amazing. The millenium bridge was open so we crossed it - not a patch on our millenium bridge though.
22 Mar 2002
The female physique webzine/gallery - exotic and erotic female bodybuilding and fitness muscle. Well, I suppose it takes all tastes.
My daughter was playing a solo piece in a school concert last night and she moved her chair back so that she could get her cello onto the platform and it fell of the back taking her with it. "SHIT" she shouted much to the amusment of everyone. She then got up and played the piece really well through fits of giggles.
I dropped my car at the garage this morning and as I was walking to work, i was stopped by this man with an accent and appearance that I can place only as "levantine". He was asking for directions, and thrust a paper at that me with an address on it, under which it said in large letters "SEMEN ANALYSIS". My instant reaction was to think that nobody brought up in Britain would ever have done that. I should add that I was going to describe the man as "seedy looking", but I decided against it.
21 Mar 2002
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17 Mar 2002
Their apples may be nice, but they ought to proofread a bit better! (Yes, pots and kettles, I know but this is spontaneous gonzo writing and so I\'m allowed to be crap)
Butts, Peins & Bushings - sounds utterly immoral and obscene doesn't it. Should I tell you that rubber is involved? Probably not. And there are always Ball Peins too.
Finnegans Web - a webified version of Finnegans Wake. I'm sure this is linked to from all over the place (espceically from RobotWisdom), but I don't recall seeing it before.
I just watched a fantastic program on BBC4 called "The Art of Piano". Lots of old footage of great piano players (most of whom I had never heard of). Some Glenn Gould and a wonderful film of Michelangeli playing Scarlatti - just superb.
15 Mar 2002
The WRTI Old Gang website - note that it is not immediately easy to find out what WRTI stands for.
Hmm, been playing a bit with Ryze - not sure about it yet. I tend not to stick in with these kind of things though, and I am never prepared to pay!
I just started watching some programme on Channel 4 called "Does Doug Know". I new it would be crap when the titles started. I switched off before they had finished introducing the participants. How does trash like this get funded?
Xdude\'s Flash book reviews - that is reviews of books about Flash, not reviews written using Flash
Filth via George Carlin. I must admit to having never come across the term "testalgia" before.
14 Mar 2002
Ladonia - become a citizen for $12, and get a title too. I am definitely considering it, but I don\'t know whether to be a Lord or a Count. Count always sounds (at least in English) a little shady don\'t you think? As does baron.
13 Mar 2002
Don\'t you just hate it when you get into the acknowledgements of a book, and they spell your name wrong!
Went to the theatre last night to see "Picasso\'s Women" (I can\'t find a link for it at the moment) - very good, but frustrating because the we only saw two of the women portrayed, you have to go on another night to see the other three parts.
12 Mar 2002
Ia mreading a book about mummies which mentioned the language Tocharian - one I had not come across before.
11 Mar 2002
RIP Hamish Henderson - I remember asking him a question about diddling and him singing Tail Toddle at me for a considerable period of time.
10 Mar 2002
My parents rented a cottage called Leodebest just to the east of this stone circle. Pity there is no picture or any other kind of information - ah ha, here are some pictures. The circle is next to the Latheron river and part of it is missing. Guidebest was (and probably still is) owned by a family called McLeod - old Mr Mcleod (long deceased now) told some odd stories.
9 Mar 2002
Don\'t type raw sql on top of red wine - I just managed to change all the entries in the database to read the same and have had to recreate it. Luckily there wasn\'t a lot to recreate and I had html copies of the pages to work from. So if you happened to have seen all the entries look the same, it wasn\'t a browser bug or a network glitch, just that Italian merlot getting in the way.
I'm listening to We saw a bozo under the sea by Zoot Horn Rollo. Highly recommended if you like that sort of stuff.
8 Mar 2002
Excuse the dust of my tests.....
One of the great advantages of my new weblog support system is that I can add entries from wherever I am.
Some great links at sharpeworld today. (And, Jen, you should definitely get your hair like that)
Paul Lynde - I have no idea who he is of course, though some of you might. I wonder many of his witty ripostes were entirely scripted.