Category Archives: Drivel
Filler
Sorry… no excuses for the lack of content over the past seven days. Except that I can’t actually think of anything worth writing. The news seems to be either gruesomely unsurprising, stultifyingly boring or just “who cares?” So, by way … Continue reading
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I hate Hotmail
I hate Hotmail. I despise it. Normally, with something so insignificant (at least in relation to my everyday life) I’d just avoid it. But I have to use Hotmail. Hotmail, and webmail in general, is how email should not work. … Continue reading
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Band list meme
From Rick via Mike… “Your meme, should you choose to accept it, is to rank the following bands in order, from couldn’t live without to couldn’t care less. To add value to this process, you must also add one band … Continue reading
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The end of the summer
It’s been a good summer. For a start, there was this… I like the Proms. I’ll admit that it’s a flawed system, limited geographically to London and stylistically to a fairly traditional idea of what “classical” music is. But it’s … Continue reading
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Badger badger badger badger badger
Will someone please come round and rewire my brain, to stop the badger tune from spinning round in my head all day, every day… I mean, it’s such a cool little animation, but I can just imagine standing in the … Continue reading
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Mahler for hi-NRG disco nights?
In Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, the first little solo played by the trumpet sounds exactly the same as ‘In the Navy’ by the Village People. See? I told you everything was connected, didn’t I?
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Just another old Nazi
So, Diana Mosley (née Mitford), that spectacularly wrong-brained old woman, has died. Surely, with such an unrepentant fascist as she clearly was, we won’t be subjected to more of the revisionist memories accorded to Idi Amin and (on a smaller … Continue reading
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Calendars… use them
A message for various branches of the media… It’s summer. It gets warm in summer. Some years are warmer than others. This year might break the records, but they’ve been saying that every year since 1976, and only 1990 was … Continue reading
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Ageing
Catching up on a backlog of entries from Richard Herring’s excellent blog, I came across this entry, which made me (a person of roughly the same age as Richard, although seemingly with less grey hair) laugh a lot. Especially this … Continue reading
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The Lego Mac
Did you play with Lego as a kid? I did, obsessively, but I never built a Mac out of Lego. Daniele Procida, from the uk.comp.sys.mac newsgroup, built one, and he’s selling it on Ebay. (As the Ebay link will have … Continue reading
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