September 2007
SeptemberSep 30 Sunday 07
Milk Walk
Sunday
SeptemberSep 29 Saturday 07
Dan Le Sac: Thou Shalt Always Kill
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip: Thou Shalt Always Kill
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Stuff The Toys It's Friday
Some people hate Mondays whilst others loathe Wednesdays. When I was growing up I used
SeptemberSep 27 Thursday 07
Yello - Planet Dada
Locked Away For 70 Years By Mistake
Family reunions of a long lost relative should be happy affairs. Happiness may not have been the first emotion experienced when David Gambell from Wirral, Merseyside received a letter from a care home in Macclesfield which seemed to indicate that an elder sister that he …
Music In The Aisles 27/9/07
The Melancholy Aisle
I managed to shoe-horn myself out the door this morning in order to get some supplies from the supermarket though I very nearly resorted to an Internet shop instead. Luckily it wasn't too busy and I worked my way around though the first sensory …
SeptemberSep 26 Wednesday 07
Pale blinds drawn all day...
A couple of days ago I was cooking the tea (as you do) and a great feeling of sadness, fear, doubt and self loathing just washed over me like being suddenly doused with a downfall of extra cold water. I did what I could to complete my task but lost the enthusiasm to …
Leaving England
Apart from being scared witless by watching 28 weeks later I have managed to get the soundtrack music lodged into my brain. A reworking of the In the house-In a heartbeat theme used in 28 days later it managed to permeate my mind and added another dimension to the film …
Pixelator For OS X Download Available
Pixelmator, a Mac OS X Image editor which utilises core image technology is finally completed and available for download (demo). First impressions seem favourable and I like the way you can black out the desktop background behind the floating windows.The company state …
SeptemberSep 25 Tuesday 07
Combo Fridge, CD Player, iPod/MP3 Digital Radio
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I couldn't resist this one as I'm a sucker for improbably combined gadgets. this one's a combination mini fridge, CD Player, FM/AM radio (no DAB??) with the ability to hook up external speakers and including iPod and MP3 player connectivity, You know you've been …
Car Park Tax Is Coming
Watch This Space
I read that the go ahead has been given to tax employee car parking spaces. any company with 10 or more dedicated parking spaces may find the spaces taxed in an apparent attempt to discourage car usage. Car parking spaces may cost
SeptemberSep 24 Monday 07
The 7 Year Marriage Proposal
In Germany a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU) political party, a sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) has provoked her own pro-family values party by suggesting that marriage should only last 7 years before a couple …
Playaway Audiobooks
I notice that our local library now has access to playaway audiobooks which are self contained digital audio devices that have many advantages over CD and cassettes including:
- Equalizer button to adjust bass, treble, etc.
- Three narrator speeds
- Easy volume adjust and …
The Room Lit By Roses
" Heterosexual privilege and power-and all its attendant rigmarole. Such a system, if it were to be taken seriously, would have precluded me from having a child. Luckily I have never taken it even the least …
I Watch, You watch, We Watched
If there's a difference between me and my partner it's in viewing films. I'm not a prestigious film watcher these days and we can't always watch the same films. My partner gleefully tucks into popcorn over a Quentin Tarantino film or other film that features a graphic …
SeptemberSep 22 Saturday 07
Insane In The Membrane...
I have an almost constant headache at the moment and it's been particularly troublesome
overnight. It's not really abated by aspirin or paracetamol though a darkened room brings it all down to a medium throb so I may clear out coal our bunker style utility shedlette …
SeptemberSep 21 Friday 07
Geeky Fingers Binary Nails
Wordpress.com Adds Tags At Last
Wordpress.com add tagging at last whilst retaining categories which many of us (me included) were already using as tags (this would restrict our choice of template due to the size of our category list-it will be laborious if all previous posts can now be tagged!!). …
IBM Releases Free Office Suite
IBM have released a free office suite that is available for immediate download and available for Windows and Linux platforms with Apple OS X due at a future date. The office suite is named Lotus Symphony and is in effect a re badged version of the open source Open …