Tag: Life

  • The downtown music scene after 9/11

    I sometimes listen to Radio 3’s Mixing It. Freaky stuff from every corner of music and only occasionally a bit po-faced. This week I stumbled across a web page about…

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  • Powerpoint in pedagogy

    We’ve pressed the Powerbook and MS Powerpoint into half term service for our four year-old’s revision. In kiosk mode it’s easy to create a constrained sequence of words, letters, numbers…

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  • Fireworks

    Today we bought fireworks. I mean we really bought fireworks. They’re having a toofer at Tesco’s so we wound up with a shopping trolley-full of fireworks for half price. Driving…

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  • My come-back

    I haven’t blogged for nearly a month. It was the shock. My carefully constructed blogger.com weblog exploded. I won’t go on about it. I’m better now. Anyway, I can confirm…

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  • Normal service will be resumed…

    The general weirdness and flakiness of Blogger lately (look at my lovely links!) has pushed me over the edge. I’m going to import the whole lot to Movable Type later…

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  • Miss, Mr and Mrs

    I Don’t Want Your Millions Mister, Pete SeegerMiss Chatelaine, kd langMiss Lucifer, Primal ScreamMiss Punta Blanca, Jane SiberryMiss Sadie Mae, John Lee HookerMiss Sarajevo, George MichaelMr E’s Beautiful Remix (Butch…

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  • Indirect Current

    The North London Line (timetables here) is one of London’s marvelous oddities – it doesn’t go anywhere. Or at least not in the purposeful, busy sort of way that the…

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