Oops, sorry. Custom Transcription work has been a bit hectic recently, and I’ve been neglecting all this sort of online social stuff. Anyway… The world is going to end on 21 October, by which time we’ll have spent five months on the Big Naughty Step after Judgement Day. No, really. Well, I say “really”, but [...]
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It happens every year!
December 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Drivel, Journalism, Politics
… that is, the self-important media pronouncements about our inability to cope with the snow. Why we’re a laughing stock with the rest of the world – David Jones, Daily Mail This bursting urge to point out our national shortcomings is like a comfort blanket for the terminal self-deprecator. It usually sits pretty squarely with [...]
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Catching up, post-summer 2010
September 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Drivel
Blimey, didn’t intend that to be quite such a long blog hiatus. That’s summer for you, I guess… there are always plenty of alternatives to sitting in front of a computer, typing shite. Not that I haven’t been doing any of that; I’ve just been spreading it more thinly. I’m not keen on where this [...]
Facebook lies
August 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Consumer, Drivel
I suppose we already know that they like to play fast and loose with our personal data, so it’s not surprising that a few people have been noticing something like this recently… Er, no I haven’t! It’s hardly worth getting worked up about such an insignificant thing, but really… are they so desperate to get [...]
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Weird Youtube behaviour
June 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Drivel
Youtube has been doing weird things to my web browser for a while now. Anyone else getting anything like this? 1. I start off following a link to a video. Here’s an example… Video 1 2. I’m then interested in one of the related videos in the right-hand panel, so I click to watch… Video [...]
Today’s exciting news
April 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Drivel, Huh?
I always mean to blog more about general news stories, but there just isn’t enough time in the day. However, so many interesting and truly significant issues have caught my attention today, so here’s a summary… Was Shakespeare French? (BBC Radio 4). A locket found in Stratford bears a message (in French) from his mother, [...]
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Youtube closes down for the night
March 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Drivel, TV/Radio
There’s probably a whole generation of Youtube users who won’t understand any of the references here, but this video by Eddie Robson made me chuckle with nostalgia…
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If elected, I will be lovely.
October 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Drivel, Politics
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 party members listening to their favourite politicians telling them things that have been carefully written [...]
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Ahem…
September 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Drivel
Yes, I realise I’ve written nothing on here for a month. A mixture of house buying/selling and all the stupid bureaucratic box-ticking crap involved, a week of pure air and sunshine in the Swiss alps (to recover from the former) and a sudden mass of bluesjamtracks work is to blame. I’ll write something proper very [...]
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The only pig in the village
May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Drivel
Actually, forget local news. Who needs it when international news agencies produce stuff of this quality? Afghanistan’s only pig quarantined in flu fear (via Peter Serafinowicz)
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