The person who decided to sit on the other side of the table is reading Gulliver's Travels. If I wasn't a lesser man I'd bring up the courage to speak to him, instead I sit there reading and re-reading the American Splendour comic about jury duty ( Read more... )

I have been looking for a programme that can convert .mid files into either .mp3 or .wav files. The only ones I have found are free shareware versions which only let me encode up to a minute of any tune. I need more than a minute dammit. If anyone can point me in the right direction then I would be very grateful ( Read more... )

A belt of mine who has done nothing but keep my dignity intact for five years died tonight, torn in two during a particularly complicated maneuver as I got out of the car. In its memory I have composed a poem ( Read more... )

Stewart Lee post will never appear, it would have been relatively long (in relative to what I don't know) and would have featured the audible sound of me gnashing my teeth during the compere and support act followed by a large phew when Stewart Lee comes on. And I got to talk to him ( Read more... )

The Life Aquatic is, as every other journal owner states, quite nice. It's still not a film where I walk out of the cinema thinking 'that was fantastic' and make plans to see it again the very next hour but it was still good. To be honest, I've never seen a film in the cinema that I wanted to see again the very next hour, I saw Kill Bill twice ( Read more... )

I was last in Borders on Wednesday 23rd February, I was going to Eyam Plague Village on that night, a few days later I would be going to All Tomorrow's Parties, when I came home I was struck down with flu and then I had my two allocated days off. I've not been in for about a week and a half and, although I hadn't linked it at the time, I was ( Read more... )

Earlier on today my room was looking a state. I had piles of books, CDs and DVDs just lying around the floor interspersed by pieces of paper with hastily scrawled notes or ideas. Somewhere in there were items I had completely forgotten about and wouldn't see for years, the shelving system already in place had failed as I often take DVDs off it ( Read more... )

Another day off, another day of internet searching (and such vast amounts of time spent on World Wind that it's almost indecent). Only one site to report back but it's a blinder. In 1955 Labour MP Christopher Mayhew MP took a potent hallucinogen for the BBC television programme Panorama. The film was never shown but those boys over at Some Of ( Read more... )

Good things that I have done today:-

- Broken away from the godawful forum which has occupied my time for two years and I don't know why it's taken so long- Sat on World Wind for hours ( Read more... )

Being ill the last two days has allowed me to sit at the computer drinking Lucozade and to browse the internet. Visiting sites I haven't seen for ages like the Private Eye covers archive site and discover new ones like the RT and TV Times covers archive (both are excellent). And then there's World Wind. What a great little thing that is. Once ( Read more... )