Monthly Archives: March 2002

Wake up, do some painting, some grouting, then gardening, shopping, cleaning out the car, recompiling a Linux Kernerl, cleaning the house and top it all off with making a pizza, from scratch, with an egg on the top… That’s what … Continue reading →

Weird Al Yankovic deserves another mention – his songs have been funny to me for ages, but his videos are a revelation. Check them out if you can – especially his “Jurassic Park”, which is a good pastiche of the … Continue reading →

Go to bed Ashley! I must sleep… but I have enjoyed the Weird Al Yankovic tribute to Star Wars Episode 1… you have got to see it!

I found this very funny – the “Spice Guys” and “Say you’ll bring beer”. It’s a six and a half minute video which does a “Full Monty” style make-over of some men to make them serious competitors for the Spice … Continue reading →

Mmmm broadband… The hardest bit, now, is going to be thinking of something to say – the rate at which I can learn new things is far greater than the rate I can write about them. It may only be … Continue reading →

I wonder how much it takes to get a higher position on the links list on Mal’s site. Tonight, I watched Ms Jolie in Tomb Raider. It reminded me, in some obscure way, of a cool film I saw a … Continue reading →

An apostrophe error by the tax man… what delight. I could not help but laugh my backside off when I heard The Girl with Emphyzema, which is, if it’s not too obvious, a spoof of The Girl From Ipanema.

Someone remind me to vent about Boots and their advantage point. And I must wander down Gosforth High Street with a digital camera. For now, let’s look at an author who is not called Iris. Fun incredible links: A haiku … Continue reading →

Space station oddity – one of the funniest things I’ve heard in ages, and it’s about as funny as the Star Wars Cantina.

Maybe I’m just cynical, but I have to look at the office situation in detail today – there are things which I need to get off my chest (and I don’t just mean the excess areas of blubber). In typical … Continue reading →