
12 September 200720:36:12
That was nearly a proper bl*g post!
20:31:12
I was having a look at some of the "Facebooks for old people" such as EOns where you have to be in the USA for some reason, and TeeBeeDee where the first captcha word given was "shag" so I reloaded and got "glastonbury" and then "moonwalk". I suspect this is another USA only site and the shag referred to is the dance. I think I'll stick with facebook - these sites seem irredeemably cloying and upbeat beyond sense. (You can friend me on facebook if you want, though do make sure that you identify yourself in some sensible way so that I know that you really a "friend". For some definition of friend that means we have never met, are never like to meet and indeed have never spoken nor do we know what each other looks like....
12:46:12
A Train - James Carter Quartet (via Locust Street)
12:07:12
Rap in 3 languages (featuring Stig who is actually from Wallsend rather than London)

11 September 200722:01:11
RIP Joe Zawinhul

10 September 2007
9 September 200721:34:09
The Replacements do AGAP (thanks Jack)

8 September 200722:59:08
And don't you get so annoyed at shopping sites that insist you "register" - I wonder if they know how much lost trade they get because of it. Especially when they take paypal!
22:43:08
Explain to me why women's clothes shops are full of jeans with 36" legs but mens ranges all stop at 34". Is it to much to ask for a pair of 34/26 black jeans with a zip fly? It does seem to be at the moment. The ebay search box for leg length stops at 34. Can I buy long leg jeans in Holland perhaps?
20:15:08
The piper is good but I could do without the rest of the band who just sound out of tune the whole time.
18:13:08
The Only Ones reformed.... though I suspect, not reformed, if you see what I mean.
18:11:08
Blink 182 doing Another Girl - I like Blink and if you hadn't heard the original this would be excellent but it isn't a patch on the
Only Ones.

7 September 200712:29:07
Ah, another girl another planet : what a great song

6 September 200716:52:06
Protoscript - this is very neat indeed!

5 September 2007
4 September 200709:43:04
I'm on a train heading to Luton (I'm external examining there today)
09:22:04
I'm on a train heading to Luton (I'm external examining there today)

3 September 2007
2 September 2007
1 September 200720:19:01
Been at a Jazz for Everyone workshop today - I am confused about secondary dominants.....

31 August 200716:47:31
Vietnam spoons -fantastic
12:31:31
Comedy Pr0n Movie Titles - these will offend the offendable, but some of them are hilariously brilliant.

30 August 2007
29 August 2007
28 August 200712:23:28
I'm in Southampton fora couple of days - sporadic updates. If any.

27 August 200710:03:27
Well done that man - there are photos that show that the "rioters" are wearing identical boots to all the riot police except with bits of gaffer tape stuck to them.

26 August 200723:01:26
I have just seen a couple of places talk about "an XML". I assume they mean an XML file or a piece of XML or some XML coded data, but I am not entirely certain.
23:00:26
Daughter was not impressed with the Chillis at Leeds, says Razorlight were excellent - this squares with my viewing of their respective Reading performances.

24 August 2007
22 August 2007
21 August 200721:07:21
Remarkable body paintings NSFW possibly

20 August 200716:11:20
I don't get the
Rick Rolled thing.
14:30:20
Urk : my music disc just filled up. *sigh*
12:17:20
We bought some more Terry O'Neill photos when we were away : Helms and Redford, and Clint Eastwood
10:30:20
Listening to St Germaine's Tourist 
: nice electro-funk jazz
10:24:20
The plural of penis - lots of fascinating stuff about plurals here. (and it has some good wisecracks in it as well)

18 August 200721:49:18
Bizarre sight of the day : two Hari Krishnas, both with bicycles with trailers, squatting on some steps leading in to a shopping center in town. One of them typing away on an iBook and the other chopping carrots into a stainless steel pan.
19:32:18
RIP Max Roach

17 August 2007
16 August 2007
15 August 2007
14 August 2007
13 August 200723:26:13
1972 and 1971 (but I am not in the 1971 set for some reason but my friend 3Nik is - he's in the middle of the bottom row) Note the Concertina Conciousness vest that I am wearing in the 1972 photo - I bought that from Neil Wayne at the Kinross folk festival.

25 July 200722:27:25
I have gone to the attic and carefully taken out the package containing the cone of silence. I have unwrapped it, admiring the burnished copper bifurcated rivets used in its construction and, as is the tradition for this time of the year will be lowering it in to place very soon. However, I *guarantee* that if you look at some time in the next couple of weeks I will appear in every single one of these webcams : TJ's, <1Ann's Cottage0> and Seascape. Of course, the times at which I will appear are not subject to whim and weather so you'll just have to keep looking. I'll be the one carrying a bifurcated rivet.

24 July 200716:48:24
Absolutely castiron guarantee of being offended - I really mean that.
15:43:24
Well, we did our Sage gig this afternoon and it went OK - not much of an audience of course but nobody actively got up and left!

23 July 2007
22 July 200721:12:22
more testing
19:50:22
Hmm, looking at google maps trying to work out if the new tent we bought will actually fit on the pitch we have booked....
16:24:22
this a test

21 July 200710:25:21
Daughter's verdict on the new HP, which she read last night : "one of the worst books I have ever read"

19 July 200710:35:19
My ringflute arrived this morning.

18 July 200709:55:18
Poof??????? (via neatorama)

17 July 200707:57:17
I mentioned the Macupdate bundle the other day as not going as well as the Macheist one. Well, they did unlock all the applications, but only by fiddling their numbers - the last one is now marked 5999 but yesterday it was 9999 as far as I recall. Sounds like cheating to me.

15 July 200722:40:15
All things come to those who wait : a torrent I joined over 6 months ago suddenly sprang to life again today and I am almost there (98.6%). Though knowing my luck it will die at 99.9%....

14 July 200720:05:14
Daughter has been in Spain on work experience (working afternoons in a specialist Jazz/Blues/Classical record shop). Went to pick her up from the airport and found that parking the car actually costs more than many flights. How does that work then?
12:17:14
Excellent piece (via Spitting Image)

13 July 200712:06:13
Synchronicity! I just typed Rudy Cipolla's name into an email message and just as I did it iTunes picked a track by him.
11:37:13
Need to read this one
- cheaper than half price as well (not on the US site yet
10:29:13
Listening to a fantastic version of Cherokee Shuffle by Bill Keith - gorgeous pedal steel solo!
09:23:13
Very very odd indeed (features naked people)

12 July 200722:24:12
My Wegen picks arrived today - they are rather fine things and seem to have increased my volume quite a lot.
11:39:12
The Macupdate bundle doesn't seem to have the same appeal as the Macheist ones - not selling fast at all.

10 July 200712:23:10
Internet Periodic Table - clearly an incorrect setting for Br, which is the right colour but not the right link.... (via neatorama)

9 July 200710:17:09
RIP Donald Michie

8 July 200723:12:08
You need some of these if you use a plectrum. I tried some at the weekend and was most impressed. Expensive but probably work it - they do all kinds of specialist picks.
22:35:08
Good to have Le Tour!
22:32:08
Slight hiatus : been at Newcastleton folk festival....

5 July 200711:42:05
RIP George Melly
09:49:05
Well, full marks to the Pownce team - I downloaded the AIR widget thing and it works with through proxy straight out the box. Unlike a whole load of other software I have tried recently.

4 July 2007
3 July 200711:39:03
Great image (via Pruned)

2 July 200723:07:02
Playing at the "end of term concert" tonight at the Sage and as far as I can tell someone has lifted my iPod and my digital camera from my bag which was left in the "secure area". So I am not happy.
16:58:02
Oh, and there are loads of others I hadn't seen!!!!!! Deep joy
16:55:02
Ian reminds me of
an old masterpiece - still amazing
16:43:02
Musicmoose is good
16:39:02
All Freebase invitations gone - I was one short of having one for everyone who asked so if any of the invitees get some invitations can you invite "the last guy"?
14:18:02
Interesting (if perhpas not quite as amazing as the page suggests - there are loads of people doing this kind of thing, a lot of them on bicycles....)

1 July 200722:47:01
RIP Roy Hilton - none of you will know him but he was a character and a man of principle. He sometimes wore two hats as well.
22:34:01
Juts back from Chick Corea and Gary Burton at the Sage Gateshead. Enough technique for 20 people and Tim Garland came on for the last two numbers. Most excellent music.
11:17:01
Well, we got canceled this morning so didn't play the Kite Festival after all - the field was waterlogged it seems.

30 June 2007
29 June 200714:11:29
RIP Willie Johnson - only just heard (That is "Peerie" rather "Blind" of course)

27 June 200717:07:27
If you are at the Kite Festival on Sunday morning, we're playing on the main stage.

26 June 2007
24 June 200722:11:24
Everybody and their cat is linking to
Daft Hands and that's because it is amazing.

23 June 2007
22 June 200716:11:22
Fenwicks on Northumberland Street were playing Cantaloupe Island through their street PA system as I walked by today. Odd.
13:03:22
Why was it banned though? It's great.
