Savapoint is a source for cheap software and hardware. Even before the savings on sales prices, the Savapoint Website provides completely free entertainment for visitors. Some of the perfunctory descriptions they offer of the movies they sell on DVD are a scream: The Hours: “A story of three women living in different time periods of […]
Read MoreAh, the Midlands. On the long drive from my sister’s today—thank you for your hospitality Clare and Steve; and for your snot, Maisie—I listened to a strange football commentary. The game was a local derby between the football team of the spiteful little town I grew up in, Tamworth, and that of Burton-on-Trent, just up […]
Read More09:40: first hearing of Bing Crosby’s White Christmas 10:55: second hearing of same 11:10: first Nat King Cole of the day
Read MoreThis‘ll give the Windsors something to talk about over the turkey. (Thanks to Fark.)
Read MorePeople keep telling me I don’t look a day over 33 too, but it doesn’t help.
Read MoreAs a result of extensive user consultation the PooterGeek Steering Committee has settled on this new executive blue look. Apparently the purple was pretty hard on the eyes. (It also had the effect of making visitors think their monitor was on the blink.) Don’t you just hate the way the word “executive” is used as […]
Read MorePooterGeekers on the new look: so far, one vote in favour (from Maoi) and one vote against (from Leasey).
Read MoreCourtesy of Maoi I have been reading Twisted 6, a collection of newspaper articles by Filipina newspaper columnist Jessica Zafra. Maoi has annotated the text in her beautiful handwriting so that I can understand Zafra’s native references and lingo despite my ignorant Anglo background. (For example, I’m not sure if the adjective from “Philippines” has […]
Read MorePooterGeek is more-or-less back in action now. I’m fairly happy with the layout, but I think I might play around with the colour scheme over the next few days. Your comments on the new design are welcome. The cartoon pie-chart at the top of this Guardian article sums the whole ‘Blogging scene accurately.
Read MoreThere won’t be any proper ‘Blogging over the next few days because I am going to try to overhaul the PooterGeek site. Sorry!
Read MoreMaoi took Amber and me out for her graduation dinner last Friday. [Thanks, Maoi!—I’ve been trying to email you, but your destiny.net account is bouncing.] After good food at Light we bustled off to see Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The film has such a clumsy title because it is bolted […]
Read MoreNo doubt walking around with a stupid grin on her face too this week, novelist Claire Berlinski wrote to point out that she didn’t write this one.
Read MoreIf you read the text of the story it gets even dumberer. UPDATE: Damn! They fixed it. Here’s a screen capture of the original.
Read MoreIf ever you are worried about a knotty moral issue, it often helps to check on what the Vatican thinks. I take this as a vote in favour of the American handling of Saddam to date.
Read MoreTinFoilHat emailed to warn me that Zionist scientists, funded by the World Bank and using technology copied from crashed flying saucers, have replaced the Saudi Ambassador to the United States with a clone. He even speaks Yiddish Saudi ambassador accuses Iraq war opposers of ‘chutzpah’ [Associated Press] Countries that opposed the US decision to invade […]
Read MoreOver at the London News Review there is an aggressively insightful series of articles about Urban English (UE) and popular music. I liked this bit about date rape advocate and chart-topping dancehall DJ Sean Paul Henriques—“a middle class, mixed-race Jamaican”—toning down his nastiness to appeal to white fashion victims: It would seem that Sean Paul […]
Read MoreJust as in politics the extreme Left and the extreme Right converge, in fashion the extremely cool and the extremely uncool are separated by the thickness of a page of Vogue. Regulars probably know my dad used to be an English teacher. It is the duty of teachers everywhere to define the “square”. Teachers’ clothes, […]
Read MoreJudith will have a thing or two to say about this one, I’m sure. Here Johann Hari examines the favourite novels of the leaders of the three main political parties in the UK and tries to work out what each choice says about each chooser.
Read MoreAs I read the BBC’s summary of the Arab world’s responses, I must admit that the capture of Saddam Hussein brings a new danger: the danger that I will laugh myself hoarse.
Read MoreIt’s delicious. As pointed out elsewhere, a perfect time to read Nick Cohen (long-time Left-wing opponent of Saddam’s regime) review Noam Chomsky’s latest rubbish. Those people cheering and sobbing with joy at Paul Bremer’s news conference and hurling abuse at Saddam on video weren’t Americans; they were Iraqis. I particularly enjoyed the moment when the […]
Read MoreI was busy stuffing my face with breakfast at the local greasy spoon. Claire and Judith alerted me to this
Read MoreLeasey emailed to make an observation about BBC typos. After noting in passing that BBC News used the word “denies” twice in a row with reference to Maxine Carr and the Soham murder case, she proposed her Typo Theory of Celebrity Doom: …the girl who plays Hermione went to the Lord of the Rings première […]
Read MoreI’ve been looking forward to a new, live-action film of the model-and-puppet based Thunderbirds television series for years now. The rumours have flitted around, green lights have been given and then burned out. Finally it seems the movie will, as the Americans say, get a theatrical release in 2004. The creator of the original “Supermarionation” […]
Read MoreIf you listen carefully you can hear the sound of the improbably named M. Stasi dumping a French government-sponsored truckload of excrement onto the vast whirring turbine blades of a Concorde jet engine. (Don’t forget to check out the Beeb’s unfortunate misspelling of “discreet”.)
Read MoreBen Goldacre went to medical school with Hind (the same medical school I dropped out of, in fact). For a while Ben and Hind shared a student house, where he took a keen interest in the cultivation of tropical plants. Ben also once edited a piece I wrote for the Oxford Student to the point […]
Read MoreThanks to Neil Kumar and the power of the Web another old drumming band mate I haven’t heard from in years emailed me in the small hours. The band mate, Richard Willoughby, now owns The Coldroom, the studio we used to rehearse in. In the nineties some rather more successful bands worked there too. Now […]
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