PooterGeek

09Jul04 — 2

Apropos Of Nothing

Did I mention that I am the subject of the normblog profile today? [If you are new here, you might want to scroll down to 8Jul04, the last bit of real 'Blogging. I don't do that any more, now I'm a superstar. Popular recent posts include “On The Beneficial Effects Of Tea…“, “Decree Absolute“, and […]

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09Jul04 — 2

Me Me Me!

I don't usually post pictures of myself in this 'Blog (apart from the passport-sized thing over there ->), but I am being interviewed at Normy's place today so it's ego time! [click for full-size] My friend Leasey took the photo last month in Eat in Cambridge. Eat is an excellent sandwich bar—with flattering lighting. I'd […]

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09Jul04 — 1

Grown-Up Totty For A Dress-Down Friday

Since I can't think of anything worth 'Blogging and Norm's post will guarantee PooterGeek hundreds of hits without my lifting a finger, here is a gratuitous picture of Nigella Lawson. Scott Burgess wasted energy writing something interesting to justify the one on his 'Blog this week. For balance, here's one of George Clooney. George and […]

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08Jul04 — 0

Goo Goo Ga Ga

Google exemplifies many of the best things about the Web. It even catalogues and copies the best things about the Web—and the worst things too. Its founders are self-mocking academics with a brilliantly simple idea, who hire hordes of PhD graduates to keep refining that idea in a never-ending race against nutters of every kind: […]

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08Jul04 — 0

The Cycle Of Vileness

This week the west bank of the Thames was witness to yet another of the Blogosphere's attempted character assassinations. It is believed that the revered leader of the Humafis group, the blind cleric Sheik Mohammed Blunkett, was intended to be the victim of what the government of Blogland admits is an official policy to stop […]

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06Jul04 — 0

Buy The CD. Listen To The Band.

Tonight in Brighton, A3 Music, purveyors of this fine album, will be staging another showcase for their artistes. One of the acts will feature two hardened old music business pros on piano and drums respectively and a geek on vocals. Happy am I to be growing old at a time when The Young People are […]

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03Jul04 — 15

Decree Absolute

My dad introduced me to G. She came to Tamworth from Manchester. If you've grown up in the Midlands it's tempting, but wrong, to see southern types as inherently more sophisticated. She might have suffered from dyslexia, but she was so much cleverer and kinder than her snooty rivals that it was hard not to […]

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03Jul04 — 3

'Blogwatch

Before I start, people of the 'Blogosphere, could we have some snappier names for your 'Blogs, please? There is a thoughtful and thought-provoking recent post at God Save The Queen. If you haven't already, you should enjoy this amusing and surreal Colin Powell story at What You Can Get Away With. Meet Mia in Hong […]

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02Jul04 — 2

Argh

Yesterday, my old PooterGeek pages were attacked by comment spammers. That brought down all of my Websites and probably some other peoples' too. I'm very, very sorry. As for the scum responsible: we're on your case. Get your beards trimmed ready for your court appearances. Things are slowly being fixed here. In the meantime I […]

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30Jun04 — 0

How The Mighty Fall

Traumatised both by France's failure to stop the Iraq war and its soccer team's embarrassing and premature exit from Euro 2004, international footballing legend (and amateur philosopher) Eric Cantona disappeared last weekend. Today, psychiatric nurses from the Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne in Paris safely removed him from a makeshift underground refuge he had constructed for […]

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30Jun04 — 1

“Cynical”

People who love English because the language can be precise and powerful can't protect it from people who love English because they love the sound of their own voices speaking it. Words like “disingenuous”, “chaotic”, and “appalling”, for example, have distinct and useful meanings. To the journos and pub bores and politicians they have become […]

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30Jun04 — 0

What Are You On, Tom?

Talking of blowing it, Tom Watson (Labour) MP attacks his Lib Dem tormentors by denouncing their party for being soft on drug addicts. This is like attacking the Monster Raving Loonies for supporting representative democracy. [Once you've read the parent post on his site I warn you no to go any further; some of the […]

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29Jun04 — 0

Militant Accountants Against The Occupation

The Anonymous Economist sends me Paul Krugman's opinion piece in the New York Times today. Krugman meets expectations: he makes some valid points about American incompetence and corruption in Iraq's reconstruction; then he blows it with his conclusion: “Let's say the obvious. By making Iraq a playground for right-wing economic theorists, an employment agency for […]

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28Jun04 — 0

David Duff's Book Club

Also doing my work for me today is PooterGeeker David Duff. He's back from his hols and emails with book reviews. He recommends The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips. David writes: “Like all good pulp fiction, it is very cynical and morally dubious but an absolutely cracking read.” He points those looking for something rather […]

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28Jun04 — 0

Another Sheet On The Roll

In the absence of anything amusing from me, read someone else. I've added Mick Hartley's 'Blog to the PooterGeek 'Blogroll, having inspected it at the recommendation of Backword Dave. You might want to wander over and enjoy the righteous kicking Mick gives Bianca Jagger today—no, not that Mick. I salute a man ready to lay […]

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28Jun04 — 0

Quiet Day

Iraq begins self-rule ahead of schedule. NATO promises 10 000 troops to secure Afghanistan's upcoming elections. Evidence appears in support of the Accelerated Life Theory of Britney Spears, within hours of my first postulating it. Unfortunately, I can't think of anything to write about any of these things.

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27Jun04 — 0

WordPress Update

For Backword Dave and Timbeaux and any other 'Bloggers interested, here's my list of gripes/tips from my two weeks of using WordPress: You can get yourself in a terrible mess if you forget who you are logged in as. Don't. WP takes forever to timeout from pinging back URLs when you press Publish, so just […]

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27Jun04 — 1

Hit Me Baby One More Time

When Dolly the Sheep was cloned from a single cell of her mother/twin's udders, one of the science-fiction-horror side-effects of the manner of her conception was the premature ageing of Dolly's own cells. Someone should tell Britney that the terrible downside of being created from a flash-frozen scraping of Madonna's left breast is that she […]

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26Jun04 — 4

Bang Per Buck—or Why I Willingly Sponsor Killers

My mate Tony Blair's emailing me again. After I complained about the Word documents he kept sending me, he kindly switched to HTML mail with minimal formatting and a graphic of his signature at the end. He attaches a slightly more elaborate PDF document telling me what's wrong with the Tories' plans for the National […]

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26Jun04 — 0

In Praise Of The Little Guy (And His Girlfriend)

This another oldie, but it's never too late to read a story about the Mail on Sunday being humiliated. Mil Millington wrote a Webpage and a newspaper column and a book and, soon, a film—sorry: “major motion picture”—called “Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About”. [Mil's homepages might be funny, but they're ugly and […]

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25Jun04 — 2

Crime News

11 English tourists were robbed last night in the Portuguese capital. One of the party, Londoner Solomon Campbell, 29, said to reporters: “I was sure I'd put it away safely, but, by the time we'd returned to our hotel everything we'd worked so hard for was gone.” Although a Swiss David Bowie impersonator, currently touring […]

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24Jun04 — 0

Distractions

Leasey brings us a fascinating tiny game. I could warn you of the little wrinkles, but you'll have more fun working them out for yourself. She also recommends that we catch up on the latest drama in Britney's life. It's not just the world of international refereeing that's gone topsy-turvy: pork scratchings are becoming a […]

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