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French pop?

January 29th 2006

Having just bought a dab radio (yay) spending the afternoon listing stuff on ebay (selling off cds and bits and peices) and listerning to 6music, i’ve heard a good dose of French ye ye girl pop. Hmm, Im not the biggest fan (I’ll leave that to le La on songfortheday) but I was facinated by [...]

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Wise words

January 29th 2006

It’s rare something makes me laugh out loud* but this was true genius. Its a wank bar, with a great garden bit at the back. To be honest, pretentious toss though it was, I didn’t mind the bar itself. It was the punters who got on my tits – sour-faced office girls bemoaning their ever-spreading [...]

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Oh for Gods sakes!

January 26th 2006

People – think about it please. If the stats are true: * 22% chose creationism * 17% opted for intelligent design * 48% selected evolution theory * and the rest did not know. ID = creationism. Intelligent design = somebody designed it = creationish. It’s just symantics. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : [...]

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‘Crack Tax’ Nets $2m

January 26th 2006

I have no idea if this is true – but it is truely a brilliant ideal: ‘Crack Tax’ Nets $2m A USA ‘crack tax’ has brought in almost $2 million for the state of Tennessee in its first year. Tennessean.com reports that the state’s unauthorized substances tax – dubbed the ‘crack tax’ – requires drug [...]

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Balls to the lottery

January 24th 2006

All you need is whale vomit! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Tummy rumbling

January 23rd 2006

Why oh why, when Im trying to sleep, does my tmmy rumble so much? And why am I booting up phone to log this, when that will only make me awaker. Sigh Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of [...]

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Busy week, but there’s always the goodness of toothpaste

January 22nd 2006

Sorry for the total lack of posting my dedicated fans (hello – heeeelllooo – nothing but echos), but it’s been a mother fucker of a week. Werked my ass off all last weekend, worked my ass off all week, travelled and dined on firday (good sushi – a thing of wonder), had a lovely lie [...]

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Les cox sportif

January 16th 2006

right – traling though my logs I’ve noticed a whole load of people who’ve got here by searching for Les+cox+sportif, and if you do, you end up with an odd drunken quote I blogged whilst at a gig. So, time to set the record stright. Les Cox Sportif is a man called Chris, and a [...]

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Girls smell

January 15th 2006

Just as I’ve always suspected scientific proof girls smell. I knew it! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Sterling engines

January 15th 2006

I’m waiting on some scripts to run at work, so I’ve been reading up about Striling Engines mostly being they’re, em, cool. In a geeky way. However, builting your own out of tin cans is uber cool. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and [...]

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Shiny photo fun

January 15th 2006

As this weekend has become a completel write off, I spent a few hours last night sorting out som emore photos onto Flickr, including The girl Kat and our drunken antics, two women and a chair, the buzzcocks and Clinic! Now I’m at work which is rubbish. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : [...]

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How well read am I?

January 15th 2006

not brilliant. Stealing yet more links from Das Big O, of the top 100 best books of all time I have read… Animal Farm – George Orwell The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (painful) [...]

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Hijinx

January 15th 2006

Many years ago I used to put up fake signs in an engineering department of a well known northen university. I renamed offices, labels the toilets “top secret labs”, put up fake directions arrows, had audions going on in radioation rooms and made the cleaning cupboard the office of R. Sole McChuffwisker. However it appear [...]

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Have time, will post

January 15th 2006

but thus when I don’t have time, I can’t post! Boo that. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Yay!

January 12th 2006

New iBook arrived! Boo – work is gay. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Holy mary mother of god?

January 11th 2006

WHat the hell is Eastender’s – Slaters In Detention? My eyes hurt Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Winston Churchill in management speak

January 9th 2006

Consulting teaches me a lot, and a drop of reading here and there (plus a few minutes of the BBC) has led to me beleive that management cunsultant speak is surely the worst thing to happen to the english language (after my spelling). So what would happen if Winston Churchhill spoke management speak? Lets find [...]

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Real Audio with adware

January 9th 2006

Thank the bbc for a version. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Stripping realaudio to mp3?

January 9th 2006

Handy tips for those of us who require radio4 at odd times of the day. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Fun fun fun

January 8th 2006

going places you shouldn’t and taking great photos. I smells an adventure on the way. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Weekend manouvers

January 8th 2006

Fab weekend all round until now – where I find myself sitting at work, trying to write status reports and explaination emails. Balls. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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All Tmorrows Partys?

January 7th 2006

Who wants to go to ATP May?. The Shins, the Decemberists, Clinic etc etc etc. Hundred squid a man/women/child for the whole weekend! Email me friends, and come dance and drink. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing [...]

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TGoing cold turkey

January 5th 2006

I left work a good time, got home. All good. Time before unplugging linux laptop from stereo and diving onto the net = 25mins. Time befroe unplugging linux laptop from stereo and diving onto the net not including time to put washing on and cook dinner = 2 mins. Balls – my addiction is worse [...]

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iBook nightmare continues!

January 4th 2006

What a shitter – the ibook has died (screen gone for a burton) so I’m having to play from my work laptop. Gash sticks. Might have a go to survivve without one for a bit. I suspect it’ll lst about a week. On the other hand – rss feed links should now be sorted. Possibly [...]

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IT headaches

January 4th 2006

So Im sitting on the internet, after a fairly good day at work, and chatting to peopl eon Adium, when suddenly the screen goes fussy, and my iBook burns itself out. Buggeration. Two hours later sees me having managed to boot it onto the network (using to screen), accessing it via ftp over ssh (no [...]

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dummy subject

January 2nd 2006

heres the plan – a gig – a week. Simple non? Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Withnail and I

January 2nd 2006

I film of a million and one quoteable lines: “Flowers are simply tarts; prostitutes for the bees, I think the carrot infinitely more fascinating than the geranium.” However it should never be forgotten because it includes the lines “Moty – you terrible cunt!”. Lets not shy away from these immortal words. Possibly Related Posts: Cold [...]

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So much fun

January 1st 2006

For the love of god, please don’t attempt this at home. But do look, becuasebuilding your own flamethrower shouldnt be this easy. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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The same old story

January 1st 2006

Last night I spent most of the evening vomitting and feeling completely shit. I’m blaming the food in the afternoon (I didnt have enough to drink to merit black vomit with streaks of red blood through it). Anyway – up till that point I was having a good night. Then I realised, 2 years ago [...]

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Happy New Year

January 1st 2006

[b][s][t] will be continuing into 2006 in the usual style. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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