I’ve been listening to the Secret Stealth album “Ssshhh!” all week. Brilliant stuff made by Jim Baron (Crazy Penis) and Bob Sadler (Fug) And you can listen too by going to the Bocajito Records website. Select the Bocajito Jukebox – Secret Stealth. Track 2, ‘Dream of You’, is my favourite. … Continue reading →

Just heard on Radio Five Live: Presenter: “Tiger Woods has received condemnation from charities after saying he ‘played like a spaz’ during last weekend’s play at Augusta. On the line now is a ten year old boy with cerebal palsy…” I also see that Dave Morgan, the “former fiancé of … Continue reading →

Just as I was falling asleep last night I heard on the radio that firefighters were battling a fire at Bleak House in Broadstairs. I spent a good eight years of my youth in Broadstairs and was in the same class at school as the owner’s daughter so I’ve had … Continue reading →

My yearly horse racing bet, the Grand National. I’ve been ‘up’ more often than not and won £300 one year with a £15 bet. This year the going is good so it’s more than likely that one of the top four favourites will win. The odds of 5-1 for Hedgehunter … Continue reading →

“A 600ft observation mast, it would carry a pod holding up to 100 people gently upwards, providing dramatic and sweeping views of up to 25 miles on a clear day. The futuristic, slender structure would be taller than both the Eye and Blackpool Tower, but its narrowness would minimise impact … Continue reading →

I think there’s quite a bit of hypocracy when you have an American court using the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui to discuss the human and emotional cost of 9/11. George Bush will never have to go through a similar trial in Baghdad to listen to witnesses talk about the human … Continue reading →

I’ve always wished I could be better at logo design. I just tend to open Photoshop and play around with fonts to create anything these days. Luckily logo design is merging with technology more and more and the ability to create stunning designs on your PC is becoming easier. Maybe … Continue reading →

For the last 2 days I’ve been trying to get the wonderful php (which is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML) to talk to MySQL (the world’s most popular open source database) via IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services). … Continue reading →