Monthly Archives: September 2007
Leatherhead
My American cousins always used to think that the name of my home town, Leatherhead, was hilarious but not as extremely amusing as nearby Dorking. Now George Clooney has made a film called Leatherheads, it’s about American football. So my … Continue reading
Parents
OK. It’s fine for other children’s parents (2 today) to phone up asking me to collect their children, or deliver their children, or whatever, even if the reason is so that they can indulge their seedy money-making enterprises in property … Continue reading
Northern Rock
It is so irritating to read that Northern Rock ‘managers’ are now whining that the government should have done more, earlier, to prevent everyone from taking all their money out. The company’s own response to the problems has been unbelievably … Continue reading
iPod Shuffle
My iPod has played a track by The Prodigy on every journey I’ve made by bike recently, but never when I’ve been travelling by train. How does it know to do that?
Hooray for Rolling News
The heavily trailed report to Congress by Gen David Petraeus about how well the ‘surge’ is going was given a special 2.5 hour programme on the World Service. This is what happened when the General got up to speak. WS … Continue reading
Got Mac, got Wii? Play music!
Ever since mankind discovered that the Wii remote uses Bluetooth for its wireless connection nerds people have been trying to use it for doing music. There have been some PC based drum instruments and of course the performance artists over … Continue reading