Archive for May, 2006

Bonga

Monday, May 29th, 2006

This is one of the most beautiful songs I know.
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Tech note
If, like me, you suffer from a poor Internet connection then initial playback may be a frustrating experience. In this case, press STOP, read the post (giving the track time to load), then try PLAY again.

My personal discovery of the singer was one […]

Googly nubs

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Just a quickie … too much work, too many deadlines. So it’s over to you, dear visitor.
Item 1
Imported corn from the USA

Item 2
Local corn from Jamaica

Discuss.

Rainy Day

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

The wind picked up yesterday, gusting so hard that I took down the shade sails in the back garden for fear that they blow away or snap their wooden fixture posts. It was obvious that this was not an innocent wind, but that it was carrying some force far more malevolent than itself.
Sure enough, by […]

Video: Barbican Road

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Tech note
Reload page if video thumbnail does not appear. From experimenting with various online video hosts, YouTube seems to be the most efficient. Blip.tv gave me some problems uploading and with playback, and as for Google video, I’m still waiting for their broadcast approval, three days after uploading the clip.

My heart sank when I saw […]

Amor vincit omnia fe true

Friday, May 12th, 2006

We have 125 channels on TV.
I watch very little and very irregularly: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and, the main advantage of so many channels, reruns of great US comedies such as Seinfeld, Frasier and vintage Cheers. Yet it’s one of the mysteries of the universe that I seem condemned to see the same […]