Archive for March, 2008

The toilet woman and tunes

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Perhaps it’s because I’m a Londoner, or a Brit and thus obsessed with all things lavatorial, but this must be the story of the week, or year, possibly even geological age: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/13/toilet_woman/. Yes, the fun starts with the URL, oh what riches ‘/toilet_woman’ promises, then it just gets weirder. Two years on the throne outdoes […]

A Wiki story

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

You’d probably think Wikipedia was pretty uncontroversial, a site run by geeks with a presiding interest in impartially furthering the world’s knowledge. But look a bit closer and things are murkier.
Scrap that
I’ve been having a bit of trouble on one of my Wiki pages recently, or perhaps I’ve been learning more about the proper use […]

A challenge for the boss

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Last week, Mitch Garber, the CEO of PartyGaming announced that he would pack in the job when his contract expired in May, 2009. He’d made pots of money of course, so around the water heater (tea and coffee being a more important part of our office than cool water) discussion raged as to what […]

Neil and the sound the America

Friday, March 7th, 2008

White and black, acoustic and electric, solo and accompanied. Neil Young’s concert at Hammersmith last night was made of these two Blakean contraries. In the first half he wore a white suit and shuffled round the stage like an oldster before choosing one of his six acoustic guitars to pick out a Harvest or Harvest […]