Feb 12
Driving home tonight listening to XFM we were pleased to hear the sudden appearance of This Charming Man by The Smiths. Clearly, a classic, but not often heard on the radio. Silence fell in the car, all talking stopped and, after a brief moment of listening, we sang along for all we were worth. ( until Heather Suttie talked over the end and then cut off the last bit,...
Read MoreFeb 11
It wasn’t one of the most exciting things I have ever done, but I have just about finished ripping all my CDs onto hard drive. Something close to 40GB of the stuff. It took a long time but it has been worth it for a whole number of reasons. Firstly, and unexpectedly, it has allowed me to rediscover hitherto undiscovered gems hidden in the collection. Sticking...
Read MoreFeb 09
Many silly, pointless things get nominated for the Turner Prize.I think art should be a thing of beauty, something that affects you emotionally, fills you with awe and wonder. Therefore, I’d like to nominate Denis Bergkamp‘s goal against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup. Maybe I’d need to get it played on a loop on a large screen in an empty room,...
Read MoreFeb 05
Have you ever sat and watched ants at work? Its fascinating. Drop a small pile of sugar. Word soon gets round. Then they all appear, forming nice ordered lines, one in , one out, until all the sugar is gone. But that’s an easy task. They can build enormous colonies, complex air-conditioned structures. They feed massive nurseries, fill larders, defend themselves...
Read MoreFeb 03
Signed up for Google Analytics recently, you get quite a lot of cool stuff for free. And, for the record, I don’t subscribe to the “Google are the next Microsoft, taking over the world, yada, yada” thing. The do some very useful stuff.Anyway, in Analytics you get a really sweet GeoMap that gives you an idea where your traffic comes from. This the...
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