Volume 89
20 Jan 2010
19 Jan 2010
RIP Robert B. Parker
RIP Kate McGarrigle
18 Jan 2010
17 Jan 2010
Insane skills in the snooker final tonight.
15 Jan 2010
Why can't I get a control unit for my central heating that I can talk to over wifi? Not a room thermostat, the actual programming unit.
BTW, I am not going to link to 1st person tetris
14 Jan 2010
13 Jan 2010
12 Jan 2010
I am entirely mystified by all the stuff about NBC and shows on the net. Who is this Conan guy anyway? I watched a clip that someone posted and there was this guy reading from a prompter jokes that he had not seen before (he kept laughing, though god knows they weren't funny) in front of a crowd of what I take to be werewolves from all the howling that was going on. Leno is the one with the chin isn't he? Craig Ferguson used to be a rather poor stand up in the UK going by the name Bing Hitler. Weird.
Bruce : Best. Random. Present. Ever. Simply superb.
11 Jan 2010
RIP Eric Rohmer
9 Jan 2010
8 Jan 2010
A Grisman version of Minor Swing that I don't seem to have heard before! Lovely stuff. I'm sure it is incredibly uncool to like this tune as much as I do, but I don't care : it seems to have some kind of magic in that I really have never heard what I would describe as a bad version of it. Really must learn it myself (though that might produce the bad version!)
7 Jan 2010
What a load of pretentious nonsense - any good oats, water, a little salt and of course a spurtle, that's all you need. Bottled water to make porridge? For goodness sake!
5 Jan 2010
I missed hearing about this at the time. I commented to Mrs Rivets how incomprehensible the words of carols are when we are at the carol singing that happens in our village.
3 Jan 2010
2 Jan 2010
1 Jan 2010
Ah, Pony Blues by the Allman Brothers off of Brothers and Sisters - thank you Spotify.
Happy new year
31 Dec 2009
30 Dec 2009
29 Dec 2009
RIP Tim Hart
28 Dec 2009
27 Dec 2009
26 Dec 2009
Watching J-TV via Keyhole.6.30 in the morning there. Some kind of 3-legged race but involving about 20 children strapped together. One lot falls over and are utterly disgraced and behave like it is the end of everything. Very strange. Then there are the adverts.
25 Dec 2009
Merry Xmas. Or something.
23 Dec 2009
RIP Pete King (of Ronnie Scott's fame)
21 Dec 2009
A bluegrass day today on the music front. Lot's of good stuff - Fred Geiger, "I've found a new baby" on at the moment - excellent stuff, one of the better banjo players around.
20 Dec 2009
19 Dec 2009
18 Dec 2009
17 Dec 2009
16 Dec 2009
Happy birthday to me!
15 Dec 2009
14 Dec 2009
13 Dec 2009
12 Dec 2009
11 Dec 2009
10 Dec 2009
9 Dec 2009
8 Dec 2009
6 Dec 2009
There is a ridiculous amount of spam e-mail around at the moment. Running at about 10 spam to 1 sensible at the moment (and that is after filtering). Is it because it is the start of the month or because it is xmas?
See, I hadn't forgotten that I had started changing this page.
5 Dec 2009
4 Dec 2009
RIP Liam Clancy
3 Dec 2009
2 Dec 2009
1 Dec 2009
30 Nov 2009
27 Nov 2009
I just saw a news item on the web referring to the polce raiding "bogus workers". Is this a new term for "illegal immigrant" because if it isn't most of us are in trouble.
I really must finish playing with the css for this page. Or maybe I should just go retro and put up an under construction sign.
24 Nov 2009
23 Nov 2009
20 Nov 2009
As I've said before - a backbeat, narrow and hard to master. We have constructed pyramids in the honour of our escaping. Good stuff, the WASP.
Read the kanji - very good!!!! The only problem is that I can't work out how to enter the little tsu that indicates a pause. That and the fact I don't know many of the the characters.
19 Nov 2009
18 Nov 2009
17 Nov 2009
I just heard that Geordie Hunter - a fine Newcastle singer - died last week of swine flu. He had MS and his immune system could not cope. Very sad. Sing a few verses of the Kielder Hunt in his memory or perhaps the Old fisherman's farewell to the Coquet.
15 Nov 2009
Yes. I am fiddling with the CSS
14 Nov 2009
13 Nov 2009
12 Nov 2009
11 Nov 2009
Having a bluegrass day today.
10 Nov 2009
9 Nov 2009
Was in the Fitzwilliam Museum on Saturday : knocked out by the Sickerts and the Seurats.
6 Nov 2009
5 Nov 2009
4 Nov 2009
I won't glorify the ridiculous new name for Jt James Park by even mentioning it. But the nufc forums will be worth reading tonight I bet.
3 Nov 2009
Oooh, I thought they were going to land an air ambulance on the new platform right on a line with my window, but no, they've landed in the park.
Watch this video and note where the guy emphasises the family orientation and fun over the two guys blasting away with machine guns.....
2 Nov 2009
1 Nov 2009
31 Oct 2009
That being said feel free to insert a rant about the Americanisation and commercialisation of halloween at this point.
30 Oct 2009
Machinarium - fun if you like this kind of thing. I don't particularly it turns out - not enough patience.
Dunston Rocket - it probably needs to go but I will miss it. (Like the Get Carter car park)
Why not a game called Folk Band - you could have all kidns if interesting controllers : an Irish chanter where you got more points for cranning and things like that.
29 Oct 2009
26 Oct 2009
Now, I though that I kept fairly in touch with what was going on on the web, certainly more than most people, but I went and had a look at this list of what apps "VIPs" had on their iPhones and I thought "who the hell are these people?". Sure, I recognise a couple of names, but the rest, not a clue. By what definition are they VIPs?
25 Oct 2009
Amazing cane work - imagine how hard these guys practised to get it that slick
Acrobatic Tap - mad skillz.
This one via Metafilter. Just great.
EP and Buddy Rich - insanely complicated and acrobatic. And some really mean spirited comments in true youtube fashion
More EP - so good
24 Oct 2009
23 Oct 2009
RIP Mac Tonnies - fortean and weblogger
22 Oct 2009
I have been enjoying my new mandolin.
21 Oct 2009
19 Oct 2009
18 Oct 2009
Just had a great weekend in the Lake District - glorious day on Saturday, went up Wetherlam, but managed to come down the wrong way so ended up walking rather further than we meant to... Went Fellini's for dinner afterwards - highly recommended, do go if you are in Ambleside and want a great veggie meal.
14 Oct 2009
I do love the Forth Railway Bridge
Painfully slow wifi on the train journey north
13 Oct 2009
11 Oct 2009
the Slo-mo bullets thing that everyone has been linking to is very clever but it really could do with a good edit - it gets quite dull quite quickly.....
Mrs Rivets went down to the kitchen this morning to find that the cat had brought in a fish! Pigeons, rabbits, mice, yes, but never a fish before. A fresh, ungutted fish (partially eaten of course by the cat) Very odd indeed.
9 Oct 2009
toooo busy
toooo busy
8 Oct 2009
7 Oct 2009
6 Oct 2009
5 Oct 2009
4 Oct 2009
Ploughed my way to the end of Colin Bateman's Mystery Man and am now entirely perplexed by the ending. Not a clue what is meant to have happened. (There are some funny bits bit in it but overall really not worth effort - it certainly isn't hilarious)
2 Oct 2009
1 Oct 2009
The wave invitations came and have gone I'm afraid. If I get more I'll say
30 Sep 2009
No sign of any invites over at google wave so I may not have been allocated any. I will let y'all know if any do come through.
I haven't checked yet but I suspect I will have Google Wave invitations if anyone is desperate for one.
29 Sep 2009
Does anyone recall where the *third* Giant Steps visualisation is on the net? Not the Meyer Levy one, not the youtube one - this one was a key centre visualisation done in flash. I can't find it anywhere.
28 Sep 2009
We spent two hours working on Giant Steps tonight so my brain is going da da deee da da. da da DA........
26 Sep 2009
25 Sep 2009
24 Sep 2009
Wonderful - Japanese is a great language for proper Pop Music. I have no idea what this is about of course.
23 Sep 2009
BTW I am sure that I have posted that rap impersonator video before but nobody but me seems to have noticed.
22 Sep 2009
21 Sep 2009
18 Sep 2009
17 Sep 2009
16 Sep 2009
15 Sep 2009
busy, busy, busy
14 Sep 2009
13 Sep 2009
12 Sep 2009
Dating sites are getting more specialised - rather coyly advertised on TV. (OK, I know there are lots of speciakised dating sites, but this one seems to be a bordering on fetish - the TV ad makes no particular mention of the military singles aspect)
11 Sep 2009
10 Sep 2009
9 Sep 2009
I do like Chuck Klosterman, but I also have to say that I can't get excited about all this Beatles stuff, particularly the later records which I have never really liked. I do like the early stuff, probably because it is all embedded in my brain from being played so much during my childhood. But I'd rather listen to Chet Baker.
8 Sep 2009
I remembered to create a new volume