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Archive for September, 2007
New York – Day Two
In: diary
30 Sep 2007Sunday 3pm
The world looks a whole lot better after a good sleep, several coffees, and a decent shower. I think I’ve about cleared back to human now. A good start today, we got up reasonably early, had breakfast, then headed for Central Park up 7th Avenue. The Manhattan streets are a bit of a surprise, [...]
New York – Day One
In: diary
30 Sep 2007Saturday 12am
Wow. In Manhattan, sat on a very nice enclosed balcony, figuring out quite what part of me is jetlagged, and what part is knackered. I think that was about 17 hours of travelling and queuing, all told. Not sure if this is the best time to do the math(s).
Good flight really, quite choppy for [...]
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
In: diary
27 Sep 2007Okay, I said a few posts ago it had got cold. I was wrong. Now it’s got cold. Really cold. It’s still not October yet. This isn’t promising. I’d suggest buying shares in woolen mills.
Off to see Ska Cubano tonight. Should be a good gig, and it’s my first opportunity to see the new Oxford [...]
Foot on the pedal – never ever false metal
24 Sep 2007We saw Run Fat Boy Run at the cinema this past Saturday, starring Simon Pegg. Not that great to be honest. Dylan Moran was alright in it. And there were a lot of Nike logos, which was annoying at first, but after about the 20,000th I grew into a state of tacit acceptance, and at [...]
Moving away from the mainstream
In: podcast
20 Sep 2007For about a couple of years now, I’ve been listening mainly to podcasts, as opposed to radio. My only radio exceptions are Fighting Talk, which is just a pure guilty pleasure (and I listen to the podcast version), Radio 5 in the morning as I get ready, and Radio 5 on the weekend when sport [...]
Sumautrinter time
In: diary
18 Sep 2007So winter arrived yesterday, it got cold. Real cold. And then it’s sort of heating up now. Don’t know what season we are in now. Sumautrinter, I believe. I think I’m going to wrap up warm and wear shorts, makes as much sense as anything else.
Mrsfb’s brother was up to visit this weekend, had a [...]
Mix your own Subterranean Homesick Blues video
In: diary
16 Sep 2007I like this, mix your own version of the Dylan classic video.
Oxblogged – Now in colour
In: news
12 Sep 2007I’ve added a couple of new features to Oxblogged today:
A new theme which loops through some different images of Oxford taken by me.
A Flickr badge in the sidebar on the right which shows the latest photos tagged with “oxford” on the Flickr site. Sometimes there will be the occasional photo from Oxford in the USA, [...]
Like the new look?
In: diary
11 Sep 2007I’ve just smartened a few things up on the blog, and made it so the header image changes from page to page (there aren’t loads, and it’s sort of random, so it won’t happen every time). Pleased with it, been meaning to get round to it for ages. I will probably add some more images [...]
Tired but chilled
In: diary
10 Sep 2007Long couple of days just past, but with satisfactory results. Sunday was spent helping support at work move into the new building, in the main testing phones and PCs. A nice little bit of overtime that will come in handy for New York. Then today was starting in the new building. I thought that it [...]
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