It’s a couple of days on, so let’s step back and take a look at what happened on Thursday. I’m still trying to articulate exactly how I feel about it all so let’s leave that for another post and instead look at more practical matters. Basically, it seems to me that Thursday 7th July 2005… Continue reading Blogging the Bombs
Month: July 2005
Firefox Tip
A little Firefox tip that I just discovered. It makes it far easier to use web search interfaces. Let’s take for example the TV programme search box on the Radio Times web site. It’s nn the left hand side of the page – a little text box labelled “search tv”. Now the usual way to… Continue reading Firefox Tip
Quiet Day
So it seems that after the excitement of the last couple of days, London has decided that it deserves a bit of a lie down and has taken the day off. I estimate that the tubes had about a third of the normal numbers of people on them. I had the best journey in that… Continue reading Quiet Day
No Comment Needed
George W Bush in October 2004 We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities.
Embarassing Income
It’s a bit embarassing, but I seem to be profiting from today’s terrorist attacks. People are googling for bbc radio streams and coming across my page. Normally I get up to 400 hits a day on that page. Today I’ve already had 4,000. And people are clicking on the Google Adsense links. Normally I make… Continue reading Embarassing Income
Explosions
Like pretty much everyone in London, I had a spectacularly bad journey into work today. On the way in I was composing the blog entry I was going to make about the incompetance of London Underground. I was going to say something terribly witty and cutting about how ironic it was that the London transport… Continue reading Explosions
Olympic Gloating
Ok, so London will be hosting the Olympics. That’s bad enough. But what’s worse is having to put up with the terrible gloating and jingoism that it’s already bringing out in people. In the tube station at White City (and, I assume, elsewhere) London Transport had printed posters thanking all of their customers for their… Continue reading Olympic Gloating
London Olympics
That’s it then. London will host the 2012 Olympics. You know, I’ve yet to meet a Londoner who actually supports the bid. Congratulations to all of the cities who didn’t win. Now, I wonder how much I can make from renting out my house during the games. I’m certainly not going to want to be… Continue reading London Olympics
iRiver Update
An update on the iRiver after a couple of days usage. In general, it’s great. I’ve had no trouble loading files onto it and it’s a lot of fun having 40 Gb of music in your pocket at all times. I even got iRipDB working really easily, so it has a database of my music… Continue reading iRiver Update
He Shall Have Music Wherever He Goes
So I finally joined the iPod generation. Except, of course, I didn’t buy an iPod. Firstly, Mac hardware and I just don’t seem to get on. Secondly, the iPod doesn’t play Ogg Vorbis files which is the format that most of my digital music is in. And finally, the iRiver (which is what I ended… Continue reading He Shall Have Music Wherever He Goes