Don’t ask me why but iTunes subscribers have had a glitch or two this week. Ep21 has downloaded two or three times and Ep22 didn’t
Year: 2008
So many things, so little time
Mowing the lawn is going to be difficult. I can’t get in to the garden shed to get the mower out. The lock has rusted
More on shit-licking snot-turds
Or hackers as they like to be known. I have spent part of today wondering if I caught the little bastards before they installed a
Message in a bottle
To the total ringpiece that tried (and failed) to hack the podcast website. Tough shit. It took me a massive 14 minutes to repair the
Weekending
Saturday evening already. Tsk. I’m off to bed – that doesn’t make me a lightweight at 21.30, it means I have to be up at
We’re all going on on a…
WTF? I fell in to a vacant seat on the tube, fiddled with my laptop case and then looked about me. Wished I hadn’t. Sitting
I’ve just been soooooo….
Hi. Yeah. It’s me. Again. I’m sorry. It’s been a while hasn’t it? So how’ve you been doing? Trying not to sound like Joey off
Chiltern Ramblings: 02
This week I’d like to introduce you to David *yr*. Dave, for short. Unfortunately I encountered Dave on Friday’s train from London Marylebone to Warwick
This Reality – Podcast No 20
This Reality Podcast No 20 is up at the podcast’s new home. Despite the address change all subscribers should get it automatically. If it doesn’t
Saturday night in the house of big fun (again)
This evening it’s just me, the laptop, that last, lonely, slice of pizza and Love Actually. It’s been a busy day: * Drop Soph off
Number 5 alive!
með suð à eyrum við spilum endalaust is the fifth album from Iceland’s sigur rós. Their previous album takk… took off so unexpectedly successfully it
Sometimes being in London is *brilliant!*
And today is not one of those times Look, if just one more person says that my expression resembles that of Eyore I’m going to
This Reality Podcast – a new home
The success of This Reality Podcast (who would have thought, when that project was first started, that I’d ever use those words?) has outgrown the little
Ghost in the machine
It’s a little like a Stephen King storyline. There’s something stirring in the house in south London. Something dark. Something mysterious. Something unnamed and malevolent.
Chiltern Ramblings: 01
An occasional series of blog posts from the weekly journey to/from London Marylebone Damn. The cleaner – no, not cleaner – the conductor just came
101 Things to do with a pair of needle-nose pliers
I got these little beauties out for a spot of repairing DIY in the bathroom. Shaving mirror – needed the grommity things tightening on the
16 hands between my legs
Gather yourselves closer, my little droogies, and I shall tell you a tale of progress and goodness and speed and balance and such excitement that
BB9 – the zoo expands
Just when, with the eviction of the odious Jennifer (Jen) Clark (who received a decimal point under 90% of the vote, so perhaps ‘odious’ is
This Reality – Podcast No 19
Episode 19 – 41 minutes running time It’s Saturday morning in Studio K in rural Worcestershire and today’s music is provided by: 1. Broadcast Radio
And now I’m
Cross. Angry. Hurt. Grumpy. Confused. And in bed, feeling most unhappy. So just keep out of my line of sight for a while. The phone
The latest tennis news from Wimbledon SW19
The Paint Is Drying Nicely Thank You. Zzzzzzzzzzzz……
News from Swindon!
An email arrives from one of the lovely folk who works in the workplace Costa I used to frequent in Swindon. There’s a Costa in
This Reality – Podcast No 18
Episode 18 – 29 minutes running time It’s Sunday morning in Studio K in rural Worcestershire and today’s music is provided by: 1. Scamper and
Today I shall mostly be…
Eventing. So I apologise for the fact that This Reality podcast will be late this week. Too much travelling, too many things to do. B.
Here we go again
Tomorrow is Eland Lodge Horse Trials. And Big Vin and I are out for some fun: 275 DUBIOUS DEAL Mr Brennig Jones SAT 15:04 SAT
Moving targets
So first of all we have the tube journey from Victoria to Oxford Circus. This evening’s peculiar juxtaposition of sweating humanity included: * Two Spanish
Soft targets
This is one of those ‘pull up a sandbag and I’ll tell you a war story’ posts… There’s a shop in Broadway, SW1, called the
More breakfast questions
Isn’t it amazing, he asked of the small tabby cat sitting on the kitchen chair opposite, how the design – the variation in size, shape,
Musical flavas
Stone me. For the last week and a half I’ve been mentally dancing around the place because I had discovered the perfect Track 3. I
Gotta get myself, gotta get myself, gotta get myself connected
Long but oh so apt title… Lean closer my little droogies for I have a tale of cunning to tell. And while you’re leaning closer,
Breakfast questions
I’m sitting at the kitchen table waiting for my freshly nuked Oatso Simple to cool to something approaching mouth-bearing temperature. I notice the 2-pint bottle
Security, security, security
This is almost a work post; it’s certainly work-related. It’s the kind of thing that, given a slight change in circumstances, would make front page
They’re just taunting you!
I was on a google microsite earlier when I noticed one of the sidebar adverts said ‘Find singles in your area now!’. Why? So that
Global village idiot
Their eyes met across a crowded street in London, SW1. She still wore her dark hair very long; her slightly rounded, cherubic face framed by
Networking Nomenclature
So here we are, my friends, in the house in Brixton. Nice, isn’t it? Huuuuuuge modern kitchen, yes indeed. A garden, with much greenery and
Calling all Firefox users
Please boycott Firefox’s (and I quote) ‘attempt to break a new world record with the highest number of downloads in 24 hours’. Come on people,
This Reality – Podcast No 17
Episode 17 – 36 minutes running time It’s Saturday morning in rural Worcestershire and today’s music is provided by: 1. My American Heart and ‘Boys
Not asleep yet
Aren’t they peculiar, those strange things that wriggle in to one’s consciousness to press the worry button, just as sleep starts to come? And with
Hooray the bitch is dead!
Big Brother 9 contestant Alexandra (Alex) de Gale has been thrown off the programme. Why? For threatening her housemates who nominated her for eviction. Here’s
Woo-hoo! Another boy’s night in!
Yes indeed, The House of Big Fun is open for business again! You know I like lists, don’t you? Well, so far this evening I’ve:
‘avin’ it large
But in a most professional way… Today I’m working at home. This will (probably) make today the most productive day of the week. Isolated from
Lunch (no ladies wot)
I sat outside, it’s a brilliantly warm sunny day with the campus bathed in hot sunlight, fanned by a gentle cool breeze. Lunch – taken
Saturday night in the house of big fun
The central heating boiler ticks off, the pipes that feed the hot water tank begin to cool almost immediately. The noise they make sounds like
This Reality – Podcast No 16
Episode 16 (31 minutes running time) It’s Saturday morning in rural Worcestershire and… We begin with a little dance skit that almost – but doesn’t
Parental advisory; Friday evening
No beds were broken during these events Another working week dead and buried, I arrived at the yard looking forward to schooling. Except Vin had
Here be dragons!
The arena at the yard is slightly larger than the normal 20x40m affair. It’s about a 30x50m oblong, give or take, but it’s still marked
Podcast stats
I’ve been trying to validate the massive amount of This Reality downloads (via the website) since Saturday. I thought my web host stats were playing