Volume 63
28 May 2005
I've spent all day knocking down part of a wall with a breaker and I'm shattered and aching. Whoever built the wall used concrete rather than mortar and it is close to being an immovable object.
Groovy Candies - or sweeties as civilised people call them. Note that they are selling "Spring Candies" - the USA has weird seasonal foods too. (Candy corn being another example)
27 May 2005
I wish that google would hurry up and get the high-res satellite pictures of the UK up so that we can start doing google sightseeing for places I actually know.
Common Errors in English - is that common as in "frequent" or as in "vulgar", or possibly both.
Big stuff - I assume that these are the people responsible for "altering" the landscape in large parts of the USA that you can see on google sightseeing.
Isn't this what sport coaches are meant to do? And where did they find such a cultured coach? I'm sure all the ones I've ever come across would have used quite different words.
26 May 2005
25 May 2005
It's my father-in-law's 90th birthday today.
24 May 2005
23 May 2005
Excellent review of that film0> - some great lines. In the review, not the film. (Sorry link got lost...see tomorrow)
Hmm, Bloglines just went weird on me.
I just noticed that I missed the 6th birthday of this weblog which was on the 30th April! So did everybody else.
22 May 2005
Not as pissed as last night (and that's British pissed not American). Oh, and I found some decent tequila in Fenwicks in Newcastle today, but I haven't bought any yet. I got a PVR today though which is fun.
21 May 2005
good grief. pissed again.
20 May 2005
19 May 2005
18 May 2005
IP Mapping with Google maps - nearly gets it right, but in fact puts catless slap bang in the middle of Society for propogation of Christian Knowledge bookshop. (Of course the registered lat/long might be wrong)
17 May 2005
I was reading the paper today about this family who were trying to get some recognition of the fact that their grandfather who was executed for "cowardice" in the first world war was in fact completely shell-shocked and should have been invalidded out. And they are told that there is no legal case! It really gets me so angry and upset - there was a huge injustice done to most (and probably) all of the soldiers executed for cowardice or desertion and it would cost nothing to pardon them now, yet nobody in authority is prepared to admit that a mistake was made nearly 100 years ago. Grrrrrr.
- excellent stuff.
I want all of them. Especially Swami and Flying Missionary, ooh and possibly Apostolic Scribe.
16 May 2005
trying a pen tablet so this May Not be well spelled
Handwriting tips - maybe I should convert to a postlog so comments have to be done in writing via snailmail.
15 May 2005
Lots of strange German spam today.
Crosspondular has now made it into Google.
I wasn't going to mention that film, but note that Carrie Fisher looks older than or at least as old as her mother (Go to the page and click the left arrow as it is the last image in the sequence) The miracles that are hair dye and plastic surgery.
My profuse apologies to Larry (and his lovely wife and two beautiful daughters) for forgetting to give him a thank you for a link I used the other day. Mea Culpa. Cave Canem. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
RIP Jimmy Martin
14 May 2005
13 May 2005
I signed up at Outfoxed to give it a whirl so if you need an invitation then ask me.
The Britblog thing is just so as to play around with the Chart that they run, not through any kind of overt patriotism.
Strange - I don't why this site refers to these glass paperweights as "marbles" : not a usage I have ever come across. Possibly a crosspondular usage.
Listening to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. (the CDDB genre is "unclassifiable") Interesting and clever but something that will probably wear thin quite quickly : certainly not repeat play material
12 May 2005
11 May 2005
marketingtowomenonline - I wonder if you split the letters up in a different way you get somethign meaning ful in some other language : marke tingto wome nonli ne. Looks like an African language to me.
Sorry to go on about Sudoku, but what is so special about hand-generated puzzles over computer generated ones? The Guardian is making a big deal that their puzzles are the only ones being published in Britain that are done by hand. This is a grid of numbers not pottery or something - how can doing it by hand make any difference at all?
Linda reminds me of Hoogerbrugge wher I haven't been for a while - as strange (and brilliant) as usual of course.
10 May 2005
I just did today's Sudoku as well. I still don't see the point other than as a time waster. There is no challenge to it at all - it's entirely mechanical.
How to perform strongman stunts by Otley R. Coulter (whose name looks like it is an anagram)
And the point of sudoku is? I tried yesterday's in the Guardian and it seems to be simply a matter of applying logic to the layout. I suppose it has the advantage that you can check that you have it right yourself.
9 May 2005
Oh, a be sure to check out the front page of the previous site. (Ahh, it is a Landover baptist production)
8 May 2005
7 May 2005
6 May 2005
5 May 2005
I'm sure I put up a link to the acoustic version of Straight Outta Comptons but I can't find it, so here it is again. Makes a great song. (NSFW of course)
In search of the blue agave (hard to get really good tequila in the UK as far as I can make out - tips welcome)
4 May 2005
Backpack is interesting (though some of the rave reviews are a little OTT - it's not that special!)
I'm just messing around with a machine in Coleraine....
2 May 2005
Off to N. Ireland for a couple of todays (part of the validation team for someone's degree course) so all will be peaceful round here till I get back.
Went to a workshop with Darrol Anger and Rushad Eggleston this morning. Good stuff.
1 May 2005
Just got back from the Sage, Gateshead from a concert by Darrol Anger and Rushad Eggleston. One of the best concerts I have ever seen in my whole life. Eggleston is simply the most astonishing cello player I have ever seen. If you get the chance to see him, grab it. (Which is not to denigrate Darrol Anger who was amazing as well). I'm still totally stoked by it.
30 Apr 2005
RIP Cyril Tawney and Percy Heath
29 Apr 2005
Just got back from the Ornette Coleman concert at the Sage, gateshead. Wow - Coleman, his son on drums and two double bass players. Excellent stuff.
28 Apr 2005
Does anyone know that the setting in the Windows registry is that controls whether or not you can click on a link in an email message and have it open in your browser? One day it stopped working and I started gettign a message about the operation being forbidden because of settings. As you would expect I had set nothing so i have no idea what to do to unset the setting.... As usual having posted a request for help I almost instantly found out how to fix the problem.
27 Apr 2005
The "next" link in the last volume is now there and the date links have been fixed too.