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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Congratulations are due, after a fashion, to Manchester United for beating Chelsea yesterday in the premiership. I didn’t see much of the game, being engaged for most of the day at a naming ceremony for my mate’s daughter, but the consensus of opinion seems to be that Chelsea were the better side while United dug [...]
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Let’s hear it for Westlife; something like seven years into their music career and yet still releasing records that jolt to Number 1 in the charts, as I learned when I watched Top Of The Pops yesterday for the first time in an age. In the fickle world of manufactured kiddie pop, their longevity is [...]
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Wednesday 2nd November 2005
When people moan about their council tax, the usual complaint goes something like “£1000 a year for emptying my fucking bins”, as if that is the only function the local authorities perform. Expect more of these comments with the annual warning that council tax is expected to rise sharply next year.
But I feel sorry for [...]
Wednesday 2nd November 2005
So, before we really got reacquainted, David Blunkett has had to resign again. I can’t say I have been following the to-ings and fro-ings of this one very closely, so I can’t offer an opinion on whether his going is justified; although it is probably common sense. The media had clearly scented blood and just [...]