Entries from May 2005

29 May 2005: Ripped Apart, For Offices

I’d rather been hoping some knight in shining armour would turn up and change the King’s Head from being a boarded up mess, to being a really nice pub again. Stranger things have happened. But it was not to be.

29 May 2005: The Weather

There’s been a lot said about how much more accurate the new weather forecasts are. How much easier they are. How much clearer they are. How much better it is than having one big symbol covering a large area.

24 May 2005: Picture Frame Hook Thingy Needed

To cut a long story short, I bought some frames today to put some photographs in. nd on one, I broke the little hook thing which is fixed to the frame, and is what you use to hang it onto a picture hook. I’ve borrowed one from another frame, but want a replacement.

23 May 2005: Random BBC Strike Quotes

With todays strike at the BBC naturally being a story I’m interested in, I thought I’d keep an eye on the press and websites for some interesting quotes.

23 May 2005: Monday, part 2

Well the day got off to a good start when I woke up at 4am and my body completely refused to go back to sleep.

22 May 2005: Monday

This is why tomorrow is difficult.

22 May 2005: Man, Does It Suck!

The vacuum conked out the other day. It was an old one - indeed, my parents old one that had been shoved in a loft until we moved house last year when it was brought out of retirement for us to use. Not entirely sure what was wrong with it, but the cable was looking a little worn… Something to do with the centimetre of exposed copper wire gave that one away.

18 May 2005: A Half Sense Of Closure

Today I got a sense of closure. Almost. A project we all stopped working on nearly two months ago, finally went up. Well almost. Yes, today half of NTL got the rebranded bridge.

17 May 2005: RSS Feed Changes

For some time there’s been a hidden RSS feed for this site - an RSS 0.91 feed of the blog headlines and summaries. And now there isn’t. But the two people who used it, should not fear as you should be using a different feed instead. Automagically. Honest.

16 May 2005: Music Player Stats

Nearly three weeks since getting it, I’ve been rather haphazardly ripping CDs and uploading them onto my new MP3 player, getting so far 64 albums on it, with a total of 851 tracks and using 2.9Gb - only 16Gb to go.

16 May 2005: The Spice Of Life, W1

In the never ending quest to review pubs that sell Mild, Sunday saw Catherine and myself in The Spice of Life in Soho.

14 May 2005: Scotch Steak Houses - Evil With A Green Sign

If you’ve never come across one, they’re exactly like Aberdeen Angus Steak Houses. And if you’ve never seen one of those, they have big clunky signs, everything is red inside and they look plain awful.

14 May 2005: Chuckle times four

Thanks to our new CBBC eXtra service (currently on cable and Freeview versions of BBCi - page 570, and launching on satellite soon) I was amazed to read that Chucklevision features not two Chuckle Brothers but four.

11 May 2005: backstage.bbc.co.uk has arrived

Well you didn’t have to wait long. Backstage.bbc.co.uk went into public beta today. Pretty much everything I said about opening up the News and Sport feeds to do cool things with, applies also for the plethora of feeds listed on backstage.bbc.co.uk - be it the extensive travel information available, or the Doctor Who RSS feed.

10 May 2005: Go… Do Things with RSS

A press release about RSS feeds isn’t going to set the world alight. One that starts off telling you to go off and reuse the feed in exciting ways might just.

8 May 2005: Hitchhikers Guide to the Beer

The whole world and his aunt has probably seen Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by now, but I finally saw it yesterday.

3 May 2005: Election Leaflets 2: the horror returns

Some more election leaflets have come in since the last batch was reviewed. And it’s new entries from Labour, the Tories, and a re-entry in the letter box, from the Greens.

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