Entries from February 2004
- 26 February 2004: Let the paperwork commence!
- I am looking forward to this weekend. For the first time in several weeks, I can rest and relax without feeling like I should be trapsing around estate agents, and wandering around street after street. On the other hand, I’ve now got a swamp full of paperwork and phonecalls to deal with.
- 25 February 2004: New ‘Mild In London’ Section.
- About the ‘Mild In London’ section.
- 25 February 2004: Small World Moment (Wenlock Arms, N1).
- When you’re around Old Street, there is only one pub to visit. And it’s this one.
- 24 February 2004: Wahoo!!!
- The thing about being highly pesamistic is, when something actually goes your way, IT FEELS BLOOMIN’ BRILLIANT!
- 23 February 2004: The end of Mark and Lard as we know it.
- The news that Mark and Lard are to leave Radio 1 is sad, but not entirely unexpected. They’ve been the subjects of the internet rumour mill for several months no doubt surred on by their own on-air comments. It’s been as obvious as the fact that a
carry on
follows astop
. - 23 February 2004: House Pessimism.
- At least if you’re pessimistic, you won’t be disappointed if you don’t get what you seek.
- 22 February 2004: More Notting Hill Pubs
- More pub reviews from Notting Hill.
- 22 February 2004: House Found?
- It’s been a slog but, well…. we think we’ve found the right place to buy.
- 20 February 2004: Mark and Lard Wonderings.
- Well I did have a whole piece written about Mark and Lard splitting - I did it in my lunch hour today - but it seems to have gone walkies and not made it home.
- 18 February 2004: Boo Hoo (Is Anyone Crying?)
- The demise of fashion retailer Boo.com was one of the great dot-com crashes if all time. It went down in such a blaze that the entire world must have known what happened. It symbolised not only the successes of the dot.com industry, but also everything that was wrong with it in the late 1990s. As such, I was interested to find out more, and a chance purchase of the book, Boo Hoo, written by Boo.com’s former CEO Ernst Malmsten looked like it might be an interesting read.
- 18 February 2004: Estate Agent Games.
- The games estate agents play on the phone.
- 17 February 2004: Housing Market Quiet.
- Looking for somewhere to buy is hard work in London. You need a lot of cash for starters. And then you need to find somewhere you like. But at the minute, you’re lucky if you can find anything at all.
- 13 February 2004: Beers of the Week.
- A quick roundup of three of the recent beers I’ve partaken of.
- 13 February 2004: Timing of the Tables
- A scouring of the Apache server logs reveals why people keep looking for train timetables…
- 11 February 2004: Death of the Homepage?
- A lot of people seem to have been wittering on about the death of the personal homepage. Having just compared stats for Planet Bods and this site, I’m glad to say that Planet Bods still beats this place on the hits stakes - it’s not dead yet!
- 6 February 2004: Idiot Web Users
For some time I’ve been cursing web users. Specifically those web users who want to contact Tyne Tees Television. For instead of going to the Tyne Tees website, they come to the totally unofficial Tyne Tees Logo Page as run by me.
- 2 February 2004: Words of Wisdom from Catherine.
- Inspirational stuff from my other half.
- 2 February 2004: Anatomy of Search Results 3
- It’s been 6 weeks or so since the last Anatomy of Search Results but they keep pouring in and confusing me. Except for the one from the very beginning of January which was just
shag
. That just scared me. - 1 February 2004: Advert from the staff of the BBC.
- It was perhaps the biggest example of the BBC staff ‘making it happen’. A full page advert in the Daily Telegraph yesterday paying tribute to the work done by Greg Dyke, and asserting their belief that the BBC should continue to be independent, and continue to be an independent organisation that best serves the public who pay for it.
