Mr Goldie, I Should Have Taken Your Odds…

My contribution to the team might not have extended much beyond insisting on a selection of incorrect answers–I could offer only a small handful of correct ones, and one of those was about Star Trek (hangs head in shame)–but it would be remiss of me not to mention our unprecedented success at the Hemingford Arms pub quiz last night: at one point in the quiz someone actually wondered out loud if we could bear to…

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New Toy

You now, it’s terrible, really: Sal goes away for a few days and I can’t help myself but go shopping and spend lots of money. Ostensibly heading to Tottenham Court Road on Saturday afternoon to help someone else with a laptop purchase, I ended up returning with a lovely shiny new 60GB iPod photo, which is currently sync-ing the better part of my record collection as I type. It wasn’t exactly an impulse buy, as…

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Lazy Sub Editors

I must say that my plan of not paying any attention to Everton’s recent matches seems to be doing wonders for their form: since getting access to the evil one’s sports channels at home, I’ve watched 3 live games, all of which have ended in defeat for my team. I have completely ignored the last two games, which they went on to win, first comfortably against Crystal Palace, and then unexpectedly, against United. Not having…

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Basic Grasp of HTML

Honestly people. If you are going to steal images off this website and stick them on your own blogs (well, not even stick them on your own webspace, but instead leech off my bandwidth), then the least you can do is get the dimensions right: that’s 273px wide and 335px high. And if you need any advice on how to do it, then just have a look here.

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“Doesn’t ‘Vespers of the Dead’ Sound Like a Heavy Metal Band?”

Random Papal-related news: – The BBC choose to illustrate an article discussing the ethics of photographing the Pope’s body with… a photo of the pope’s body (well, obviously from that angle it’s fine). – Apparently Queen have come under fire for going ahead with their reunion tour gig in Rome this week. Well, obviously they didn’t get the memo: the appropriate way to pay your respects to the old AIDS-loving anti-abortionist is to postpone your…

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Typical Monday Evening in Camden

Rob reports that his part of London has been experiencing heightened levels of crime recently. It must be catching: yesterday evening, on my way home from work I emerged from a particularly unpleasantly packed Northern Line to the sound of sirens wailing. Just your typical Monday evening in Camden, you might think, but as I pushed my way through the unwashed hordes waiting at the bus stop it became evident that something was going on.…

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Glasto Denial of Service Attack

Looks like the annual “lets hype Glastonbury until Wayahead Box Office’s servers explode” ritual is well underway, what with the White Strips confirmed as Friday night headliners, along with non so subtle hints about Coldplay for the Saturday night. Despite what Mr Eavis might say, Wayahead (the chaps who will actually sell you the ticket once you get through the first hurdle from www.aloud.com) are still running Win2k, so it all should make for a…

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