Kilroy-Silk will surely go down in history as the person who single-handedly destroyed British Euro-sceptics chances of being taken seriously. It almost makes me like him. I said “almost”. Update: It seems that Kilroy-Silk’s new party doesn’t have a web site (or, at least, not one that Google knows about) so I’m happy to join… Continue reading Euro-Sceptics
Site Navigation Toolbar
This is a circuitous tale, but stick with it – it gets interesting towards the end. I noticed that I hadn’t seen any new entries from DJ’s blog on Bloglines for a while so I investigated and found that the feed I was subscribed to was dead. Another bit of poking around and I found… Continue reading Site Navigation Toolbar
Irony At Work
Simon Waldman points out this very positive article about RSS in yesterday’s Sunday Times. It’s ironic, of course, because none of time Times online news sites have any trace of an RSS feed. They’ll work it out eventually. Update: I sent an email pointing out the irony to webmaster@timesonline.co.uk, but it bounced back as an… Continue reading Irony At Work
Tada Lists Success
You know, I admit to being a bit sceptical when I first set up my Tada lists, but I have to say that it seems to be working. Over the weekend, despite one of my servers crashing completely and me spending far too much time running fdisk and changing DNS records, I managed to tick… Continue reading Tada Lists Success
English As She Is Spoke
We have a rich and expressive language and therefore it annoys me intensely to hear people using it inaccurately. Two recent examples. Firstly, the woman from Kent who was interviewed on the BBC news this morning. She has flown to the USA to support Michael Jackson in his hour of need because “I know he… Continue reading English As She Is Spoke
London Olympic Bid Over
According to today’s Observer senior members of the campaign to bring the Olympics to London in 2012 are admitting that their bid has failed. Many Londoners (myself included) will see this as very good news. I don’t remember anyone asking us if we wanted the Olympics here.
Jim Capaldi RIP
I climbed on the back of a giant albatross Which flew through a crack in the cloud To a place where happiness reigned all year round Where music played ever so loudly Jim Capaldi, founder member of Traffic, died earlier today. One for Dadrock perhaps.
Ticket Prices
I’ve never seen U2 live. I’d like to see them. But no live concert (especially one in stadium) is worth £55. For that price I’d expect an all-day festival. When are music fans going to say “enough is enough” and stop paying such ridiculous prices for concert tickets?
Bad Memory
Watching Them : Watching Us is on top form today, pointing out the ironies in today’s Daily Mail front page. We’ll never forget this.
New BBC Streams Article
Today’s Guardian has an article about the relaunched BBC Radio Player. It also mentions their experiment last year when they made editions of In Our Time available as MP3s.