Saturday 24th December 2005
Well, Christmas is almost here and I can’t be bothered to write my lengthy-ish seasonal post after all; shopping and wrapping have taken up too much of my time.
So nothing about my trip into Manchester the other week wandering around the Christmas markets, where I saw the strange sign “Wanted - temporary staff for Christmas [...]
Posted by Quinn | Filed in Fimbles
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Wednesday 14th December 2005
If you’ve read my previous post, where I mention that I work in the public sector, then you are no doubt jealous of the fact that my pension allows me to “swan off” at 60 when everyone else will have to work until they are 68 before they retire; at least you will if you [...]
Posted by Quinn | Filed in Society
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Wednesday 14th December 2005
There have been some interesting posts over at The Filter^ recently. This one, on the subject of drinking, harks back to an earlier post on the same subject, and follows the author’s usual line that government action will invariably make matters worse, that there are free market solutions to our problems. As usual, Anthony makes [...]
Thursday 8th December 2005
Funny really; there I was on Friday night, taking advantage of the newly relaxed licensing laws, and disagreeing with my mates over the way George Best’s death had been handled across the media and elsewhere. Sure, the coverage was a tad excessive, I thought, but not unexpectedly so considering the fame of the man, and [...]
Posted by Quinn | Filed in Media
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Monday 28th November 2005
My thanks to Steve for pointing me in the direction of YouTube, a sort of Flikr/Yahoo! Photos for your videos. Now I can effortlessly inflict my short films on you, and all for free.
If you have 4 minutes 24 seconds to spare, then you can check out my video of the Northampton Balloon Festival of [...]
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Friday 25th November 2005
“Is there any football fan in the country who doesn’t want Peter Crouch to score?” asked Adrian Chiles on Match Of The Day 2 last Sunday, while reflecting on Crouch’s missed penalty in the Liverpool - Portsmouth game. Well I don’t want him to score, not just yet, although nothing would have given me more [...]
Posted by Quinn | Filed in Sport
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Thursday 24th November 2005
I didn’t get that worked up at first when I heard the allegation that Bush and Blair had discussed bombing Aljazeera. First, the story broke at The Mirror, which is hardly my most trusted news source. Secondly, it was the sort of thing that I expected to be flatly denied by the governments involved and [...]
Saturday 19th November 2005
Chemical weapons is yet another subject on which I have little knowledge. I know they are bad things, and illegal, but that is about it. As a result I have kept out of the debate over the use of white phosphorus in Iraq. If more knowledgeable people (not difficult) defend it’s use by saying that [...]
Posted by Quinn | Filed in Iraq
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Saturday 19th November 2005
Steve over at Occupied Country looks to have a bit of a meme in the making. Inspired by Word magazine he suggests you set your iPod or MP3 player to shuffle and see what comes out.
The problem in my case is that I don’t have an iPod of my own, rather I have half inched [...]
Posted by Quinn | Filed in Music
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Tuesday 15th November 2005
Why is this post entitled Walls? There may be a number of reasons. Perhaps it is because one summer, a few years ago, I had the pleasure of working for Unilever at their Wall’s factory in Hyde. I still like to recall that, like Chris Waddle, I used to work in a sausage factory. A [...]