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“Country received in bad condition. Bad Ebayer. Blair out!”
With less than a month to the General Election, how does this election campaign differ from the last one, in 2001? Well, Tony Blair is less popular, largely due to the Iraq war, and there’s a much stronger feeling of … Continue reading
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Weekend walking
People from warmer countries must wonder why we bother with the concept of “spring” in England… that period between winter and summer, when the weather careers madly between rain, wind, snow, more rain and occasional sunny spells. The English spring, … Continue reading
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It was 48 years ago today…
… when Panorama, that dry BBC current affairs programme, shocked the nation with its hoax April Fool’s Day report of Switzerland’s annual spaghetti harvest. Of course, Britain was a more insular place back then, and some people were easily fooled … Continue reading
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Traffic Island
New music… a piece called “Traffic Island”. [Later edit: Unfortunately, all the details I wrote about this tune were on an ancient incarnation of my music site, and I can’t quite remember how the tune came to be written. Whatever, … Continue reading
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Kilroy-Silk, you utter spaz!
Thanks to Pete, here’s a couple of musical Flash animations that have just made me laugh. A lot. And laughter is always so much more rewarding when the butt of the joke is Robert Kilroy-Silk, don’t you find? Mr Tangerine … Continue reading
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On blogless days
So it seems not all germs are cute. I’m quite a healthy person… only get a really heavy cold (or, indeed, anything more than an isolated single-symptom hint of a cold) every 18 months or so, only had proper flu … Continue reading
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The real future of downloaded music
Regular readers may remember that I wasn’t particularly impressed with the UK launch of Apple’s music download site, the iTunes Music Store, or indeed any of the legal download sites. Paying just under £8 for an album of low-bitrate mp3s … Continue reading
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Germs are cool, too
And what about MRSA? See… they’re not so bad, really. Next time you’re lying in a hospital bed, just console yourself with the thought that you have thousands of little tiny friends waiting to come out and play. Just in … Continue reading
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Support stem cell research!
I mean, how could you not want to do research to learn more about these little chaps? They’re so cute! Next time a pro-life lunatic comes along and tries to tell you that there can be no benefit from stem … Continue reading
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Perotin for beginners
Very little is known about Pérotin. What we do know is informed mostly by the work of “Anonymous IV”, an English student based in Paris in the late 13th century, who wrote at length on the daily life and musical … Continue reading
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