I was recording in Richard’s little studio the other day and he showed me some scenes from a short film he’s doing the music for. (His initial ideas sound excellent and the short not only looks good, but stars Someone Famous Off Telly.) Populated by children’s toys as his and Kate’s home is, I had […]
Read MoreJackie is of course right to be disgusted with Alastair Campbell admitting that both he and the Prime Minister are clueless about computers. She is wrong to make any connection between this and their being employees of the state. Many senior managers in large UK organisations, both public and private sector, are incompetent because once […]
Read MorePooterGeek was only intermittently available over the weekend because of network problems. It’s back now—sort of.
Read MoreHe’s not badly behaved; he’s just got an oddly coloured chakra: Indigo children were first described in the 1970’s by a San Diego parapsychologist, Nancy Ann Tappe, who noticed the emergence of children with an indigo aura, a vibrational color she had never seen before. This color, she reasoned, coincided with a new consciousness. In […]
Read MoreNikon is going to stop making most of its film cameras. Time to have a look at some lousy digital photography. In other news, I’ve just bought another Minolta film camera body.
Read MoreIf you are interested in biotechnology enterprise and investment in the Philippines then you need to be at this conference. [Is that okay, cs?]
Read MoreSorry about the thin posting so far this week. I’ve been busy. Surprisingly, considering it covers those strange games Americans play, there are items in The Onion’s sports review of 2005 that even Brits can find funny. I missed their “World’s Emotionally Strongest Man” report when it first appeared last September: During the show’s premiere, […]
Read MoreElectronic paper is here at last: I want this and I want that.
Read MoreThe Simpsons at its best gave us some of the finest television ever broadcast. Here’s how it’s made. [via Slashdot]
Read MorePeace-loving, anti-gun, has-been “urban” popstress Ms Dynamite, who re-wrote George Michael’s “Faith” for the pre-Iraq War Brit Awards to include the declaration “I don’t want blood on my hands”, has been accused of having the blood of a female police officer on her hands.
Read MoreGINGA I could be well moved, if I were as you: If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I am constant as the Commons Bar, Of whose true-fix’d refreshing quality There is no fellow among vintners. The streets are linéd with unnumber’d pubs, They are all fine and every one doth […]
Read MoreOkay, people. I’ve got a new business model here. It’s very Web 2.0. It’s very post-marketing. Here’s how it goes: “entrepreneurs” who’ve set up per-pixel advertising Websites pay me money per letter to add their comments to the others from all the other dollar-millionaire wannabes who’ve already left theirs behind on my Alex Tew posts. […]
Read MoreI’d just like to point out that my preceding post was in no way a fishing operation, intended to elicit appeals from “fans”; I just sat down at the keyboard at midnight with the radio on and really couldn’t think of anything weirder than the actual news. In fact, earlier in the week I came […]
Read MoreI do a spoof in-prison Saddam Hussein custard endorsement and within days the Guardian is reporting that Saddam’s tailor can’t keep up with the demand for his courtroom “look”. I write a fake Guardian article complaining about better educated students graduating to vote Tory and the same newspaper follows it up by reporting on hardening […]
Read MoreA lot of people have accused you of being a sort of “Blair-lite”. How would you respond to that? Apart from anything else, how do you feel about Mr Blair as a person? Yah, well, y’know Tony was really rather good about my taking over the Conservative Party. He sent me a congratulatory letter and […]
Read MoreA while back, when I installed a spellchecker module for PooterGeek’s comments system, Old Peculiar picked at my use of the word “homonyms” in the accompanying warning. I was (of coarse) write to use it, if a little relaxed, as you will sea from a copy editor’s nice explanation of the relationship between homonyms, homophones, […]
Read MoreThe Five Stages of Athlete’s Foot: Day One: “Ooh dear, that’s a bit itchy.” Day Two: [takes off sock] “Ewww! It looks like some alien life form is gnawing its way through the flesh between my phalanges. Must pop along to the chemist tomorrow and get something for that.” Day Three: “Hello, NHSDirect? Yes, unfortunately […]
Read MoreKelly Brook is extraordinarily beautiful, but, as anyone who has seen her on TV knows, she’s not going to dazzle you with an informed précis of neo-Kantianism or a layperson’s account of the interesting physical properties of the fullerenes. Because of this you can admire her in the abstract, like the Taj Mahal, say, knowing […]
Read MoreAs a fellow member of the middle-class unemployed I can also testify to the horrors radio agony aunt Anna Raeburn described so “movingly” yesterday in the Guardian. Very recently she found herself jobless, without even so much as a rich husband and a poorly-paid but glamorous career in the media to rub together, and thrown […]
Read MoreOn the front page of educationguardian the headline is “Segregation, 2006 style” as “Figures on the ethnicity of students in higher education show a disturbing racial divide amongst universities” Inside the cover, Trevor Philips, Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, complains about the “institutional racism” that keeps blacks “students of African-Caribbean heritage” out of […]
Read MoreI found out just before Christmas that I’ve been turned down for that SciArt grant I was applying for. This is not exactly a surprise, but I’m still not happy about it. Thankfully, my family took my hint when I told them and I didn’t have to endure a Christmas of them looking at me […]
Read MoreRock chick? Heavily pregnant? At last an answer to your fashion needs, including something to raise eyebrows down at those pre-natal classes. [via Frank Cheshire]
Read MoreIt passed me by because I was busy participating in a traditional British lemming trundle along a motorway*, but, now I have had a chance to catch up with it, I think I have just read John Simpson’s final serious news report. It is in many ways a frightening document; I am afraid on his […]
Read MoreAnd thank you to the members of SIAW and everyone else for reading and commenting in 2005. Have a wonderful 2006. Cheers! I’m still suffering the last of my cold and I’ve just spent New Year’s Eve trying to work out how to use FL Studio 6’s new mixer. I didn’t even notice that midnight had passed […]
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