Posted in Music on February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ireland have selected Irlande Douze Pointe as their entry for this year’s Eurosong. It might make more sense if you’re Irish, but overseas it sounds like “Waaaah! We don’t win anymore!” It’ll be worse than that because first Ireland has to get out of the semi-final stage. It’s surprising. I would have thought the British [...]
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Posted in Vidi on February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
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Posted in Life on February 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
0:57am Tremor in the Midlands. Definite rattling and shaking. Fortunately my shelves are still intact else I’d have had repeated headaches as they fell. Estimate between 4 and 5 on the Richter scale, probably closer to 4. I’ll have to remember to check the news tomorrow.
Update: It’s the lead story on the BBC which surprised [...]
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Posted in Life on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a note to say I’m busy till Thursday. I’m currently working through a report that’s making me physically sick. That’s not a poetic way of saying it’s badly written. I read three or more paragraphs and the contents of my stomach attempt to do their Alien impression. It is unusual to have such a [...]
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Posted in Vidi on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
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Posted in Vidi on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
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I’m busy till the end of the month, so I won’t be blogging about these results yet. The irony is that the Aztec calendar was far, far more accurate than the classical Greek calendar which would only be accurate to plus or minus a month or two.
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Posted in Music on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
The single is available from iTunes, but only in the USA I think. The album follows on March 25, unless it gets delayed again. I’m warming to it slowly. The music doesn’t sound like the B-52s to me. The guitars sound normal. One of the things that made the B52s special was that no-one sounded [...]
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Posted in Politics on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
“The Earth moved for me,” claimed Shlomo Benizri, of the Shas Party
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Posted in Vidi on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
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