Volume 88
7 Sep 2009
6 Sep 2009
Very cross - there was a Bifurcated Rivets display tin on ebay, mint condition and full. I bid a lot on it and someone went out bid me. Grrrrrr.
5 Sep 2009
4 Sep 2009
RIP Keith Waterhouse
Goofus - they must have practised the swapping for ages to get it so slick. (Nice looking F4 in this one)
Thumbs & Curly - must be one of the earliest filmings of someone playing a guitar flat like that. Here's some more of the same guy.
3 Sep 2009
2 Sep 2009
Good news everyone!!! - I've been talking about a cooling equivalent of a microwave for many years now, and it looks like we might be getting there!
1 Sep 2009
People of Walmart - I should start a People of ASDA site (though ASDA is "part of the Walmart family")
Chet Baker Live in Tokyo - nice
31 Aug 2009
I really should start a new volume I think. Tomorrow. Maybe.
Following the lead of Wikipedia I have decided to colour code untrustworthy text. Anything that is blackish in colour is definitely unreliable, and anything blue is probably dubious.
30 Aug 2009
On Friday I bought a square neck Dobro Hound Dog. It's cheap and chinese but it sounds good and of course, the action doesn't matter at all!
28 Aug 2009
I'm re-reading the Peter Wimsey books and found this site which is pretty useful for some of th emore obscure, contemporary references in the texts. (I should say that I am enjoying them immensely)
Was at the HEA ICS conference in Canterbury the last couple of days.
23 Aug 2009
21 Aug 2009
Loaded up second life to try it again. Still nobody around. Still very dull. Still got the flying while sitting bug.......
20 Aug 2009
19 Aug 2009
This would make a good quiz if they took the country names off and asked you to identify the country. Well, an impossible quiz actually....
18 Aug 2009
17 Aug 2009
Good holiday was had. Had a couple of days in Bath and did the baths and the spa and stonehenge and had afternoon tea in the pumproom.
I don't know if any of you dared penetrate into the bowels of Yvette's website, but the map of how to get there is certainly unusual.
25 Jul 2009
I can hear the faint sounds of the wrappers being taken off the cone of silence
24 Jul 2009
23 Jul 2009
RIP John Dawson of NRPS and co-author of Friend of the Devil which is one of my all time favourite songs. He wrote all of the first NRPS album so also has credit for Glendale Train which is another great favourite of mine.
21 Jul 2009
Yay! I got a Google Wave account.
20 Jul 2009
19 Jul 2009
RIP Gordon (of Peter and)
I'm updating the firmware on my Canon 450D. Why does it have to be so fiddly and complicated?
I didn't know that Scott Joplin's orchestrations for Treemnisha were known to exist in the late '40s early '50s but then mysteriously vanished. Somewhat careless really.
18 Jul 2009
17 Jul 2009
16 Jul 2009
15 Jul 2009
12 Jul 2009
10 Jul 2009
"Moonlight becomes you, it goes with your hair" - what on earth is that supposed to mean then?
8 Jul 2009
6 Jul 2009
2 Jul 2009
1 Jul 2009
I wonder why there is no official Tour de France iPhone app like there is for Wimbledon. It would be really nice to have - the only thing there is an unofficial history thing that is OK but not with any prospect of real time information or anything.
30 Jun 2009
Well, firefox 3.5 seems pretty good - been running the beta for the last week but the actual package seems good. Also about to go with PHP 5.3.0 so everything may just break round here for a while..... (it shouldn't, but you never can tell)
27 Jun 2009
26 Jun 2009
Glad to see the Guardian went with Farah today rather than MJ.
New evidence arising suggests that my Erdös number is in fact 4.
25 Jun 2009
Interesting watching all the news sources on MJ dying. Twitter was very confused and not a good source really.
23 Jun 2009
22 Jun 2009
20 Jun 2009
I just found out that I have an Erdos number of at most 6. Which is not bad for a computer scientist I don't think.
19 Jun 2009
In Cambridge collecting daughter. People wearing ball gowns whilst riding bicycles - strange. (corpus Christi may ball or possibly Darwin)
18 Jun 2009
17 Jun 2009
16 Jun 2009
12 Jun 2009
8 Jun 2009
4 Jun 2009
A whole screed of crazy parties in the EU elections. Quite bizarre, and quite scary : racists, isolationists, fundmentalists. Aaargh.
RIP David Carradine
3 Jun 2009
I was poking around in some very old email and found an exchange with Dave Pesci author of the Satori Effect (which I did mention in BR), and so I went and had a look for him online again - not a trace since 2000 which seems slightly odd.
2 Jun 2009
1 Jun 2009
RIP Danny La Rue
31 May 2009
I found out about that car - it isn't a Kazawa (that was just a sticker) - it's a Subaru Samba with a body kit
30 May 2009
Someone in our street has a Kazama microbus : it is like someone shrunk a VW (in fact it even has a VW logo on the front) I can't find anything about it on the net at all. It's great.
29 May 2009
IT archive - I have many of the later ones in a box in my attic. (I also have a complete set of Gandalf's Garden which can't be that common)
I didn't know that more US service men committed suicide after Vietnam than were killed during the war itself.
28 May 2009
Google Wave looks very good indeed.
27 May 2009
Went to see the Michael McGoldrick band at the Sage, Gateshead last night. Very good players - he is a remarkable technician, but.....I was also disappointed. I wanted more spntaneity and the back line was just stodgy - roots and ffths bass, basic rock drumming. It needed subtlety. I enjoyed it all the same.
26 May 2009
25 May 2009
Is it me or does the slogan "Vote for Change, Vote Conservatives" seem somehow illogical?
Bizarre spam about adopting bulldogs or something. Very weird
24 May 2009
23 May 2009
22 May 2009
Actually I was wrong and hadn't realised it was after midnight when I posted. The 21st was the 10th birthday.
Oh and I nearly forgot!!!!!!!! Today is the 10th Birthday of this weblog!!!!!
20 May 2009
19 May 2009
Just trying Alpha myself. I can't think of anything useful it can do for me at the moment given the kinds of vaguely generic results it gives me. But it also just gets things wrong that you would expect it to get right : "life expectancy england" gives results for the whole UK, "life expectancy scotland" says it doesn't understand the question. Some of the data is just bizarre : Newcastle upon tyne (otherwise you get Australia) : elevation 213ft, Gateshead : elevation 33ft. Makes no sense at all. Needs work I would say. And I agree with the new kind of plagiarism sentiment in the Register article.
18 May 2009
16 May 2009
I met the guy who invented the Furby at Thinking Digital last week, and the New York Times perfume correspondent. Interesting people.
15 May 2009
14 May 2009
12 May 2009
Just spent two hours by the A1(M) with a broken car. I was wrapped in this tinfoil blanket to keep warm. Must have looked odd.
11 May 2009
10 May 2009
I just got spam wishing me a happy birthday. It's not even the weblog's birthday for another 11 days.