One product of the podcastItuneStreaMedia and all that newfangled kind of thing seems to be the introduction of new and interesting radio stations. For example, there is the now established LugRadio, a fortnightly British radio show that takes a relaxed,…
Tinyurl
I’ve yet to use it, but tinyurl looks very useful. You can submit a url such as http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=426940&Y=541132&A=Y&Z=1 and register it a short form such as http://tinyurl.com/jz258, which is more convenient to put in email, etc. Try it. This is…
Tradition
There was a very interesting post last week at Crooked Timber about how traditional modern society is: …we are now living in a society that’s far more tradition-bound than that of the 19th Century, and in some respects more so…
Mozart
Coming home latish on Friday, we went past Budgens in Sandy. There were some youths a little distance away, who were presumably deterred from actually blocking the entrance to the supermarket by the sounds of Mozart’s Requiem being played in…
Lewis Perdue and the Dan Vinci Code case
Earlier today I came across The Da Vinci Crock, a weblog detailing the progress of the Dan Holy Vinci case. (Be careful accessing the site, using Mozilla at least, as a highly annoying pop-up pops us trying to elicit money…
The cost of justice
For the past week British taxpayers have been paying a High Court judge just under £3000 to read the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code. From the BBC today: The case resumed on Tuesday after…
Fiction and lies
A highly entertaining court case starts today as da authors of Da Holy Blood and Da Holy Grail are suing da publishers of Da N. Brown over his novel Da Vinci code. What seems to be me da main point,…
More bad things
I said please no more, so the rear brakes went on my bike (arguably my fault to some degree) and our computer melted. We thought and hoped it would just be the crackling power unit, but it seems to have…
Gmail spam
I have a feeling I don’t use Gmail as much as is expected. All the adverts I get are for recipes for spam fritters and such like. The Gmail spam filter is very good and I would have thought the…
Bike shop has to turn music off
This is a good story from the BBC: A motorbike and scooter repair firm has been told to switch off its radio when customers are able to hear it or get a special £85 licence. Maybe they could do a…