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Current weblog Tuesday 31 December 2002
9pm and I don't feel remotely excited at the prospect of a New Year in the offing. This one seems to have flown by at breakneck speed and seems to have been largely composed of rehashes and recapitulations of themes from other years - not bad but not new. It seems to me that the world urgently requires new thinking, new ideas and concepts to put all the myriad phenomena of everyday life into some sort of overall context of living.
Personally I need to get more of a handle on things (as usual).
Monday 30 December 2002
Constant rain.
Listening To: Special effects
Sunday 29 December 2002
The "era of the processed improvisation" has arrived. (John has been experimenting with wavelab doing some sculpture with "found sounds").
It's most enjoyable listening to Foundation on radio 7 complete with highly futuristic noises by the radiophonic workshop. They don't make whistles and bleeps now like they used to in the good old days...
Why are yesterdays' futures so much better than today's?
Saturday 28 December 2002
An extremely pleasant time up in Norfolk celebrating with the family where I solved the puzzle of Christmas (see below). They said it couldn't be done but....
Tuesday 24 December
A Happy Yuletide to all my readers
The season of mince pies, corny films, presents and patronising BBC trailers is well under way. I'm signing off now for a bit to let Christmas work its way through my system....
"I may be some time..." (Captain Oates)
Monday 23 December
St Jude's Primary school where Coryn attended is currently being pulled down. A replacement is scheduled to be built on the same site.
7:30pm:In between bouts of struggling with sellotape and wrapping paper I've pulled another track from the archive for the music section and changed things around a bit.
Got a bit carried away in my cups the other night on CIX...
If I had to field a team of Renaissance Men I'd have Leonardo Da Vinci in goal - a safe and talented pair of hands. A couple of hardworking full backs - say Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke to feed the ball forward to the wing backs and lob speculative balls upfield.
Centre half is a pivotal position so this could be a good position for a
solid achiever like Isaac Newton. Jonathan Miller would make a creative left midfielder (and his medical skills would make a physio unnecessary) perhaps partnered on the right by Buckminster Fuller whose sense of vision should make for good triangular link up play with the forwards.Timothy Leary showed an exciting ability to play far out on the wing
(although there are question marks due to dope testing incidents) and
Richard Feynman should make a good counterpart on the other - an uncanny crosser of the ball who will be able to rouse the crowd with impromptu bongo performances.In the attack the stocky and combative figure of H G Wells should back up the twin strike force of Desmond Morris (whose works have caused a searching re-examination of centre forward behaviour) and the deceptive flair of Jeffrey Archer (whose right to occupy this position has been challenged by some.....)
3am: I've spent a marathon session finding blogs to add to my Favorites folder from the Eatonweb portal. It's fascinating wandering around in such fields of unsolicited creativity. JSrealtime is in that pool too now.
Sunday 22 December
New additions and yet another reorganisation of the cats on this site. Sometimes I think I spend too much time on this aspect of life...
Inside Outlook Express is a really splendid site for learning about the facilities and quirks of the Outlook Express mail client.
Saturday 21 December
7pm: Wrestling with a stubborn roll of sellotape that sticks to everywhere but the places I want it to. An idea for a reality TV show?
Listening to:Grateful Dead - Shoreline
In life generally I feel that I'm always fighting for air, for space..., not literally of course but to get to a clear spot in the mind where everything looks the way it really is, rather than the ways my own conditioning and external propaganda make it look."You got to run so far..."
On a more positive note the days are scheduled to start getting longer from tomorrow onwards. Who says there's no good news? Eh?
Friday 20 December
I've been discovering a different sense of the awesomeness of time and the sequences surrounding evolution and human and animal history.
A frustrating encounter between myself and a printer, an iron and some sheets of T shirt transfer paper ends with me damaging a perfectly good T shirt bought only a couple of hours earlier. Harumph! That'll teach me to get creative...
He who bends over backwards tends to snap.
Yet another weblog directory.
Thursday 19 December
In praise of lethargy...
Not much energy today. Last day at work before Christmas with a little party for the staff in the reception area for an hour or two. It's OK but I feel a little out of place amongst all the medical people.
Wednesday 18 December
A fascinating discussion on "Thinking Allowed" about the development of the Moog Synthesizer. The referenced book sounds interesting too.
Tuesday 17 December
The newly opened Radio 7 is a delight. Goons, Partridge, Bryson and Pratchett. And that's only the first week. I guess it's really Radio 4 Gold.
And the weather is cold again...
Trevor sends a poem from Belgium
We that don't know our feeling's shape
But only that which forms it from the outside.
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?
Up it would go: the scenery was parting.
Easy to understand. The well-known garden.
Swaying a little. Then appeared the dancer.(Rilke)
commentMonday 16 December
I was walking along the street trying to imagine what I'd feel like if I were the plump black woman striding along with her shopping basket who was just ahead of me on the pavement. Physically I'd feel different gravity pulls on the body and different aches and twinges emanating from various parts and, due to the coat, I'd be warmer. But what would be passing through my mind. It would have nothing to do with that lanky person walking a few steps behind her for she has not seen that person.And what would I be thinking - who knows? Perhaps a sorting out of which shops were to be visited in what order? Perhaps wondering about the meaning of life or how a soap opera could turn out. Perhaps not so very different what what my own thoughts would be if they were not focuussed on the black woman with her shopping basket....
Sunday 15 December
Nobody comes and nobody goes...
I've tweaked a few aspects of the site which will probably be all too obvious to anyone who goes digging.
Saturday 14 December
An exceptionally well designed UK site for garden stuff.
There was a small fire at work this week which damaged one of the treatment rooms. Apparently it was caused by a short circuit in a fluorescent light fitting. The fire brigade warned that in fittings where there are two strip lights, if one strip light goes then it ought to be replaced immediately. I've never come across this advice before and I can remember workplaces where a great many of these dual-strip lights which had only one working element.
Anyway - it meant that I was kept busy trying to get ingrained smoke out of some of the painted surfaces and sorting out the debris...
Private Eye has a conference on CIX where lately I seem to have got myself into a postion where I'm trying to defend the actions of Cherie Blair/Booth. Not really sure why I'm bothering but...I hate seeing the media circus in the full frenzy of pursuit of game. Are these really important issues for anyone to be concerned about...? What about the war, the extension of the EU....
Buggar! I'm doing it here too aren't I.
Monday 9 December
Out on a sunny day into a cold bitter wind - I took a bus to the Angel, mainly to pick up an undelivered parcel from the P.O., but also to mooch around the new shopping centre for a while. I was not favourably impressed by the open plan design which allows the aforesaid cold bitter wind to whistle through the concrete corridors. Tchibo has an interesting little shop full of unexpected gadgets but I didn't feel in the mood to visit too many retail outlets so I can't say much about the others.
Saw a new little object of desire in Jessops. The Fuji Axia - tiny digital camera with 1.3Mpixels that takes Smartmedia cards. Just the thing for quiksnaps...
Alan Partridge is to pack it in? Oh Alan, some of us will miss you....
Kath and Jenny and Ian and kids are off to Florida today for a 3 weeks holiday. Mmmm.
Sunday 8 December
In order to make this page load faster I've archived the weblog for the period up to October 1st, 2002.
Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi is an excellent site for learning how to make a website from scratch using simple tools like Notepad. I feel I should be getting to grips with CSS so I've been reading the introductory texts.
Saturday 7 December
"Snares are used to catch game; once you have
the rabbit, you can dispense with the snare."Fish-traps are used to catch fish; once you have
the fish, you don't need the fish-trap anymore."Words are used to catch ideas; once you have
the idea, you can throw the word away."Oh, how I wish I knew someone who had thrown all
his words away, so I could talk to him about ideas!"Chuang Tzu
(Taken from an interesting essay on the use of metaphor in computing.)
The urge to hibernate is strong. To hunker down in the bits and bytes until things start to warm up a bit.I've been getting tired and stiff after physical exertions at work and round the house.
Wednesday 4 December
A recycling of the psychological meta-model is under way thanks to the wonders of OCR and voice input. May take a while to get it all to hang together.
Spent a long time on Amazon UK today checking out their free delivery offer - what a splendid stress-free way of spending far too much money.
Tuesday 3 December
A first taste of the shuffling miserable morass of christmas shoppers fighting their ways to overcrowded counters. Phew! Maybe I'll stay in until January and do all my shopping online. It's difficult to avoid being affected by such a mass of people all on the hunt for the ideal present.
Strange to hear the wail of a fire engine and wonder what it was up to before remembering that the fireman have called off their next 8 day strike. I had a big backup day yesterday - one of my hard disks is not quite all it should be so at least once a month I have a marathon CD burning session to back up the data files, photos etc. Some people do it every day but I can't quite get that anal.
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