May 19, 2007
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Your last chance to nominate in Fistful’s much-delayed Satin Pyjama Awards. Go on, then… (And apologies for the descent into a linklog here this week – truly insane amounts of real-world work. Proper posting next week, probably…)
May 9, 2007
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The main content’s now dark on light, which should be rather more readable. I’ve added a linklog (sparse at the moment, but won’t be for long), because I rarely have time for full posts these days but keep spotting interesting … Continue reading
April 18, 2007
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Registry corrupted beyond belief by a nasty trojan thing, and unable to fix it thanks to not having a system disc / Windows CD (the joys of buying from Dell is that they seem not to supply these, and it`ll … Continue reading
April 13, 2007
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This week’s latest film news gubbins is up at the Pocket Films Blog, with news and reviews about the rather impressive Curse of the Golden Flower (plus its director Zhang Yimou and star Chow-Yun Fat), as well as a bunch … Continue reading
April 10, 2007
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I’d got annoyed with the thing, so have made a few changes – some more obvious than others. The Snap preview things have gone, as even I’d begun to find them irritating. The main column’s got wider, and the font … Continue reading
April 4, 2007
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I’ve just knocked up a quick website (free of charge and hosting chucked in, naturally) for a rather nice little charity run by a friend of the family that’s aiming to provide residential accommodation, day care, training and work experience … Continue reading
February 27, 2007
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A smattering of promising new EU blogs have crossed the radar in the last couple of days, all of which are worth a gander. In no particular order: The Telegraph have now got around to replacing David Rennie, whose Brussels … Continue reading
February 22, 2007
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The Times’ Anatole Kaletsky’s normally worth reading, so check out his latest on Germany and the future of the EU – I’m too busy to have had a chance yet, myself. You could probably also do worse than check out … Continue reading
February 16, 2007
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Busy again today, so have a gander at Siberian Light’s first in a planned series of interviews with Russia-focussed bloggers – this time with the entertainingly exasperation and rage-fuelled La Russophobe. Edit: Self-congratulation has now gone on request – apparently … Continue reading
February 12, 2007
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And a slightly new look for the blog to boot – largely because a) the back-end code with the old template was a bit dodgy in places and b) I needed to work out how Wordpress works a bit more … Continue reading
February 7, 2007
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I was a bit annoyed last year when I ended up getting lumbered with one of the first of the new “e-passport” things. Not any more – I should have had more faith in our government’s ability to cock everything … Continue reading
January 18, 2007
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Then hie thee to the Plantaganet gothic splendour of Southwark Cathedral (by London Bridge), for 8pm. Last night I caught a really rather excellent performance of the Ludus Danielis, a sung play (being pitched as a sort of proto-opera) dating … Continue reading
January 2, 2007
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A question that has been asked innumerable times, I know, but if dangerous driving is enough to lose you an MBE, merely a symbolic honour, surely convictions for perjury and perverting the course of justice should be enough to prevent … Continue reading
December 28, 2006
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Good find in the Fifteenth Century Bookshop in Lewes (a few doors down from Tom Paine‘s house, and up the hill from the best brewery in the country) yesterday: Not bad for a little over a tenner – and it’ll … Continue reading