Journal Entries
Little things in Gmail
Posted Dec 7, 2005
It seems that almost every day some little tweak gets added to Gmail.
Today I went looking for the 'Move to Trash' action in the 'More Actions...' drop down menu; only to find that it has been renamed as 'Delete'.
Discuss this Journal entry [22]
Latest reply: Dec 7, 2005
Dead Musicians (part two)
Posted Nov 29, 2005
With many thanks to Gosho who came up with this fine concept. Here is a list of 26 musicians who are no longer with us. Post your guesses as to who they are below.
The vast majority are British. Or if they're foreign, then they were mainly successful in the British market.
A small prize will be awarded to the person who gets the most right 
1) Ousted at Aust, probably
2) I don't think Jody Foster was impressed after all
3) She's small and Scottish, and got smaller and smaller and smaller...
4) I believe that all of his associates are still alive
5) Have a stab at this one: "There's no cure for cancer"
6) New footwear, new underwear, new Hickman line please
7) A dead drummer was a real downer for this indie combo
8) First an armed robbery, then dead in a car crash. Who says keyboard players are no fun
9) A high flying drummer who couldn't hold his drink
10) Folk singer - fell downstairs, hit her head. Badly as it turned out
11) He didn't die in a plane crash, but he did die on a plane
12) Take your heart down the Westway to Somerset
13) Lordy! I'd've noticed if I'd been run over by a car in Paris
14) Ham hung up to cure and dry
15) An American kid raised in Germany. He couldn't sing a note
16) The end of a long political career
17) No joy for this young man
18) A British bluesman went to Canada and got a chesty cough
19) Stob sobbing, you can find another lead guitarist. Honest
20) ... and a new bass player whilst you're at it
21) The 'tache should have told me that he was of Iranian origin
22) A Scottish chap who could have had a nasty electic shock if the booze hadn't got to him first
23) Let's go steal a duck
24) Mind out for that speedboat. Ooops!
25) His heart wasn't in it after he lost all his money in the dot.com crash
26) A Welshman who liked a good feed, apparently
27) You might have been as strong as an ox once. But at 57 the body can't take the coke like it used to.
Discuss this Journal entry [86]
Latest reply: Nov 29, 2005
It's now *officially* the run up to Christmas
Posted Nov 16, 2005
I've just seen my first Famous Grouse advert on TV... 
Discuss this Journal entry [21]
Latest reply: Nov 16, 2005
But it's only Millwall
Posted Nov 14, 2005
Sheffield United have been a bit sneaky in the sale and distribution of tickets for the forthcoming home derby against Sheffield Wednesday.
If you want a ticket, you've also got to buy a ticket for one of two less popular games ie Millwall and Burnley. OK, the club have discounted the tickets for these other games a bit - it's £30 for the pair instead of £34 with my membership discount added on top. But this does mean in my little hand that I've paid for a ticket for a game I don't really want to go to.
I'll decide in time what I'm going to do. Suffice to say, if you see me posting around the site at 3pm this Saturday, then I'll have decided not to make the 500 mile round trip and will be listening to the Millwall match on the radio instead.
Discuss this Journal entry [11]
Latest reply: Nov 14, 2005
A hole in my bum - "the fallout"
Posted Nov 11, 2005
I think I'm fairly well known as someone who thinks that Parking Wardens are the scum of the earth. Well they've just gone down in my estimation.
As was to be expected I got a parking ticket whilst I was in hospital - 46 hours in a 2 hour bay just doesn't fit. What I wasn't expecting was my appeal against the ticket to be turned down. The f*ckers are saying that I've got to pay it 
I guess this is what comes of having too much 'previous' with these bastards. For several years I have had a policy of appealing against every parking ticket that I recieve. In the past I've had a 100% strike rate in getting them cancelled. Well I guess they've taken a look at my correspondence file and thought, "not this time sunshine".
Parking Wardens - only a mother could love them.
I got another parking ticket off of Croydon's version of the vermin four days later whilst at the Crystal Palace match. I pretty certain that I'm bang to rights on that one. But that's not stopped me appealing against the fine. Oh-nooooo 
Discuss this Journal entry [16]
Latest reply: Nov 11, 2005
GreyDesk
Researcher U165955
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."