The dark side of Doctor Who?
on Nov 21, 2009 in Life Dr. Who Twitter I saw this on Monday on the Guardian’s twitter feed, totally misread it and then went to all the trouble of making a screen capture and forgot to do anything with it.  Here it is, better late than never… Capture from the Guardian̵...

Them Crooked Vultures
on Nov 21, 2009 in Music Spotify YouTube The self-titled debut album from Them Crooked Vultures appeared on Spotify this week.  I had been looking forward to hearing it and I wasn’t disappointed. Unsurprisingly, a lot of it sounds like Queens of the Stone Age.  In fact if I had hear...

Campaigning on affordable housing
on Nov 21, 2009 in Politics Horsham Horsham Council Housing Labour Party I was out in Horsham’s Carfax again this afternoon with colleagues from Horsham Labour Party to try and persuade shoppers to sign our petition about affordable housing.Although Labour are not always well-received in Horsham (or at least rarely...

Plausible spam
on Nov 19, 2009 in Life Spam I have been having a few comments here that turn up in the spam queue for my attention that have been extremely plausible.   Spam comments are normally very generic at their best, but more likely to be totally unrelated to the post they are on, and...

Cheap Janet Jackson rip-off
on Nov 19, 2009 in Music TV I turned on the TV to have a little distraction while I sat down with a cup of tea and some cream crackers with Laughing Cow spread on them,1  and was immediately presented with the BBC’s Children In Need concert from the Albert Hall just as C...

I kissed a girl and I liked it
on Nov 18, 2009 in Life Fashion West Ham Never really thought much about Katy Perry.  Heard a few of her songs and didn’t dislike them, but never really had an opinion about her. Until now. I have now decided that she is brilliant.  I wonder why… …could this be it?

Happy, happy, joy joy
on Nov 17, 2009 in Music Spotify Last night I was streaming a semi-random set of songs and relaxing while I listened to them and one particular song really stood out.  I would say it cheered me up, but that implies I was depressed.  Which I wasn’t.  Let’s just say it...

Spizzifying Spotify
on Nov 17, 2009 in Music Spizzenergi Spotify I just found a single Spizz track on Spotify and it is a bit of a surprise one. I have all the Spizz singles (somewhere) from the first Spizz Oil 7-incher through to the Spizzles, plus the Spizzenergi:2 single ‘Work’.  I have both the A&...

The Noughties by Tim Footman
on Nov 17, 2009 in Life Books Reviews Vine I have just finished the last book in my supply of freebies from Amazon’s Vine programme.  It is a history of the decade 2000-2009 called The Noughties by Tim Footman.  Like somebody hearing a World Trade Centre joke on September 12th 2001, m...

Proof that targeted advertising works?
on Nov 16, 2009 in Music Politics Technology Adverts Spotify Tories I have heard a lot about Eric Pickles putting adverts onto Spotify to promote the Tory party and I listen to a lot of music on Spotify, but I have not heard the Pickles ad at all.  What I have heard many times is the Spotify advert aimed at advertis...