Author Archives: adrian
Netbook/notebook advice, anyone?
Nicola’s wondering about getting a netbook or another similarly low-spec laptop… if anyone can offer any advice, we’d be most grateful. The only major requirements are that she can do her writing on it and have WiFi for backups. We … Continue reading
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A short history of this blog
Bear with me… there’s a reason why I’m telling you this trivia. Until 2001, I had a website that partly advertised some of my musical/transcribing exploits and partly worked as the general “mY BRilliaNT hOMEpage” that was the ultimate aspiration … Continue reading
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Lolling all over the world
From Swedish radio’s Språket I’m glad to hear that there’s now a Swedish verb “lolla” – to LOL. Swedish language purists are probably tearing their hair out, but it made me grin. Not only have they adopted an abbreviation for … Continue reading
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Oops, sorry about that.
Looks like the blog is back online… I took it down a few weeks ago, intending to switch servers and rationalise all of my various online bits and bobs. I’d tried having a separate hosting account for each domain, but … Continue reading
Ah, Mr Lunatic, here are the asylum keys…
Train firms seek longer contracts (BBC) That’d be the train firms who, despite the promise of £400m of our money over the next two years, still want to be allowed to run things their own way. The train firms who, … Continue reading
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But first on BBC1, some casual racism…
Just as I started writing about Nick Griffin’s controversial appearance on Question Time, I checked Twitter and saw this quote from Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News… @krishgm Anti-fascist protesters break into the BBC. Is it me or are people … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, TV/Radio
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Tiny people running around in my computer!
Despite my initial indignant bluster, with much projectile monocle-shedding and rustling of the Times, I dutifully paid for the online feed of the Ukraine-England match. The £4.99 buy-by-Wednesday special offer rate, of course… I’m both tight-fisted and slightly sceptical about … Continue reading
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The music industry must die, part 293
Lily Allen’s contradictory stance on filesharing was just a bit of silliness, but this is really, really stupid. Edwin Collins stopped from sharing his music online (Guardian) Despite astutely retaining the rights to his downright catchy hit “A Girl Like … Continue reading
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If elected, I will be lovely.
In one of those moments of sudden clarity, when the brain (well, my brain, anyway) spontaneously deconstructs some mundane truism or other, I wondered… Why are party conferences given so much coverage in the media? It’s a bunch of paid-up … Continue reading
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Plum Pie
A celebration of our finest humorous writer? At a distinguished bookshop in Mayfair? Plum Pie: The Life & Work of PG Wodehouse With tours of Wodehousean Mayfair by a Lt-Col Murphy? How could a chap possibly miss such an opportunity? … Continue reading
Posted in Art/Culture, London
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