Entries from August 2003
- 29 August 2003: Fopp-tastic
- Fopp are a small chain of wondeful record stores who manage to persuade me to part with money far too easily…
- 28 August 2003: Power Failure
- Power problems and transport chaos. Well I had to get two buses instead of a tube train anyway…
- 27 August 2003: Ogg Streaming
- Ogg streaming came to Virgin, The Groove and Liquid in June which is fantastic news!
- 26 August 2003: Clueless Quote of the Day
- The Conservative Party are wonderful at sprouting utterly stupid comments…
- 22 August 2003: Email Virus Havoc? Where?
- So why am I not being inundated with virus emails? Does no one like me?
- 22 August 2003: Bank Holiday Rail Closures
- Are you surprised that we have to actually maintain our railways? It seems many are.
- 22 August 2003: Friendship by Blog
- Wendy has a new MP3 player, and Paul and Andrew C can only communicate by the power of blog entries. And Mark Radcliffe has been to Ashton a few times. And does anyone actually read this rubbish?
- 21 August 2003: Dysfunctional Electricity Company Websites
- Changing electricity supplier revealed some appalling bad corporate websites from the giants of the electric industry.
- 17 August 2003: A Train From Manchester
- In contrast to the Virgin Pendolinos, you can get on Midland Mainline’s new service from Manchester to London. Older trains, but lovely scenery. Shame it was just so late…
- 17 August 2003: A Train To Manchester
- A journey up to Manchester on Friday gave me my first chance to try one of Virgin’s new Pendolino trains which are now running up and down the West Coast Mainline.
- 14 August 2003: A Day Of Lasts
- The end of an era. After three and a half years, I’m no longer a Client Side Developer… Bye bye my old friend Mr HTML….
- 11 August 2003: Carrier Bag Madness
- From amazingly small to ridiculously big! When will they get the right size carrier bags at Sainsbury’s in South Ealing?
- 11 August 2003: Smouldering Rails
- Rails on fire. Rolling down the road….
- 8 August 2003: Fame, Grease and a deposit
- So here I am. I live in a flat. Next door lives quite a famous blogger. Yes. He of MovableBlag.com. Yes. He of the big time famous dude. I say lives as that’s not quite true. In fact it’s false as he moved out the other week.
- 7 August 2003: Ugh. Hot.
- It’s hot. Yesterday was the hotest day in London ever. Even worse, we have no fan in the flat and Argos are too busy flogging models of Father Christmas with flashing lights.
- 4 August 2003: Political Correctness my arse
- Funny how when anyone ever mutters the words "political correctness" in association with the curent BBC One idents, they always point to the one where there’s a black man in a wheelchair, doing some wheelchair dancing
- 3 August 2003: Ealing Graffiti
- A quality piece of graphitti is spotted near Waitrose.
