http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki life's a beach and then you die Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:41:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Someone on Flickr quoting Martin Parr on Flickr - he's quite right, of course... there is a huge compulsion to conform to what will make an image that will be popular on Flickr. I do it all the time. So hard to be original and find your own style. I also ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/11/martin-parr-on-flickr/ I was doing a bit of writing this evening and ended up at one point including the phrase 'ee-ay-addio' which had me wondering about its origins. Via Private Eye's football reporter E I Addio, I ended up looking at football chants and then back to the nursery rhyme 'The farmer ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/11/word-association-football/ One minute I'm kidding myself that I'm still too young to listen to Radio 2. The next minute I'm finding Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross's phone calls to Andrew Sachs a bit puerile (and unlike most of the 10,000 people who complained to the BBC, I have heard them). So that ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/10/russellbrand/ It's like a piece of time travel... my first generation 5GB iPod is getting hard to charge and put new music on, as its Firewire connector is dodgy - and the Firewire port on my PowerBook is broken which doesn't help. When the new 16GB iPod Nanos came out, I ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/10/ipod-nano-4th-generation/ After a strangely satisfying day at work I feel like I'm on a roll. I'm reading a great book (thank you Sarah) - a Douglas Coupland that eluded me - Eleanor Rigby. Pretty much every page has a beautiful idea or joke - like the idea that the reason that ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/10/i-feel-better-than-james-brown/ I think I'm the only person I know who likes Los Angeles. And this cheered me up just now: quotes from the Steve Martin film LA Story. For example: Harris: Hello, this is Harris. I'm in right now, so you can talk to me personally. Please start talking at the sound of the ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/10/la-story/ It always amazes me how quickly my children sometimes manage to break new toys. So it cheered me up a bit to learn that the boffins at CERN (they have a web site you know) have already broken the Large Hadron Collider. Hope they kept the receipt. http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/09/youve-only-had-it-a-week/ Have a look at this: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/when-hardeep-met-les#comment-57497 I can't bear listening to the man, but David Hepworth confirms the nation's suspicion that BBC 6Music presenter George Lamb is a tosser, he knows or cares bugger all about music which is a bit of a failing when you're on a station that claims ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/09/see-george-lamb-is-a-tosser/ Following a security update, my PowerBook kept losing its wireless connection when waking from sleep or starting up. This was a pain as my WiFi base station doesn't transmit its SSID and I had to enter its name and long hex WEP key each time I wanted to get ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/09/wifi-forgetfulness-solved/ Did a security update on my PowerBook today; now it keeps forgetting my wireless network's name and password. So it really is very bloody secure as it's now mostly not connected to the internet at all any more. I forgave this behaviour in a £200 (now defenestrated) Asus eeePC but ... http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2008/09/super-connected/