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Archive for November, 2008
Back on the bus
In: diary
25 Nov 2008Don’t worry, I will tire of the marvel that is bus-based blogging soon. Well mentioning it at least.
Homewards now, thinking sweet bus-bound thoughts of pasta, of comfy chairs and of sweet sleep. Really fancy a good long sleep for a while, maybe a few days.
Starting to think about Christmas and next year now. We’re [...]
On the bus
In: diary
25 Nov 2008So I can now write blog posts on the way to work. The iPhone is truly a thing of wonderment. Every day I seem to find something new for it that can potentially damage my productivity slightly.
It also is helping to up my social status. Yesterday I filled out a survey online about my iPhone, [...]
Morecambe and Wise…and Atari
In: video
24 Nov 2008A set of early 80s TV commercials promoting the excitement of playing Atari VCS. You have Morecambe and Wise, and also in one instance Trevor Brooking. So many things I love brought together in a few short clips. And Trevor Brooking. See them echo the I’m a Mac/I’m a PC with the boring technophobe Ernie [...]
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- Tags: atari, eric morecambe, ernie wise, mac, morecambe and wise, pc, seinfeld, snogging, trevor brooking, vcs
The Star – Oxford Pub Reviews
In: Reviews
24 Nov 2008The Star is a proper Cowley Road-ish indie pub. Quite a few of these have disappeared over the past few years, but the Star is the same as ever thankfully. Some rock too, Iron Maiden and AC/DC playing during my most recent visit.
Opens nice and early in the day (handy when several places don’t, especially [...]
Museum and Rock
In: diary
24 Nov 2008Chilled weekend, had a walk into town, followed the city wall round a bit, and wandered through some of the more quiet streets to find our wafer to the Ashmolean museum. Looked around there, took a few photos:
Then on for a pint at the newly reopened Gloucester Arms, which was a bit barren as they’ve [...]
Today brought some great news, a new series of Flight of the Conchords will be on HBO in January. This is the trailer:
I don’t yet know when it will be on the BBC, hopefully not too long afterwards. If you haven’t seen it yet, it is shown on BBC4 every so often, or you could [...]
Idle thoughts
In: diary
19 Nov 2008Am feeling happier and happier to be back using iTunes, after a couple of years using Amarok in Linux. Just find it that slight bit more searchable, and it hooks up with the iPhone a treat, just finding and listening to a lot of different things, both in terms of podcasts and music.
New Xbox Live [...]
Yes, it’s been nearly a year since the Zodiac on the Cowley Road became the Carling Academy, so Oxford’s main music venue was clearly long overdue another name change. It will now be the O2 Academy. Apparently as an iPhone user on O2, I’ll get priority booking for tickets (I only ever remember to buy [...]
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- Tags: carling academy, gigs, music, news, O2 academy, oxford, venue, zodiac
Last chance to see (for almost a year)
In: news
18 Nov 2008The last phase of the Ashmolean museum refurbishment is about to start, and sadly it means a fine Oxford museum is going to be shut from 23rd December 2008 until November 2009. I for one am heading there this weekend to take some pictures of how it is now, to tide me over until then.
It’s [...]
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Whatever “it” is, whatever “it” isn’t will hurt Evan Bourne
In: comment| raw
22 Nov 2008I happen to believe that Evan Bourne is one of the top new prospects on WWE Raw at the moment. I love a good high-flyer, and he is about as spectacular as you are going to get in the WWE at the moment. He’s had a good mini-feud with Kane to get him known to [...]