After yesterday’s diversion into literature, it’s back to the music today with another classic Christmas track from the 70s.
4 December 2011
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3 December 2011
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Minstrels
After a couple of songs, it’s time for some poetry. Today’s offering is “The Minstrels” by William Wordsworth. The minstrels played their Christmas tune To-night beneath my cottage-eaves; While, smitten by a lofty moon, The encircling laurels, thick with leaves, … Continue reading
2 December 2011
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Pants!
After yesterday’s classic Christmas track, it’s time to bring things right up to date with one that hasn’t been officially released yet. Pre-order now, and help make Folk On the Christmas number thirty-one. If you want some more like this, … Continue reading
1 December 2011
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Songs and poems for advent
It’s December. That means it’s officially OK to start thinking about Christmas. So I’ve decided to do a kind of blog advent* calendar, featuring some classic (and maybe not so classic) pop songs and poems related to Christmas. Every day … Continue reading
20 November 2011
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A wet Wednesday in Hartlepool
An article in the Guardian Organ Grinder blog, titled “Local newspaper industry needs radical action now if it is to survive” laments the incipient passing of much of the country’s local newspaper industry. I don’t disagree with the article’s analysis … Continue reading
5 November 2011
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O2 comprehension failure
As I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve been getting a lot of SMS spam from one particular number. You can read that article for some background, but it turns out to be possibly more weird than that. According to … Continue reading
3 November 2011
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Bad municipal web design
One of the things about coming to parenthood relatively late is that I’m also late to experience something that all my contemporaries are already only too aware of: Schools are absolutely terrible when it comes to handling payments made by … Continue reading
1 November 2011
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Lottobytext: SMS spammers
I’ve been getting a fair number of SMS spams recently trying to persuade me to sign up for a lottery number scam. They come from shortcode 87770, and look like this: FreeMsg: get 5 FREE lines in the nxt Euromillions … Continue reading
31 October 2011
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Government domains update
I blogged a little while ago about the rather bizarre situation whereby neither the government nor their domain registrars were willing to tell us which government domains had been registered. In that post, I mentioned another FoI request that I’d … Continue reading
5 October 2011
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Conference reflections, day 4
The fourth and final day of the conference is all about the leader’s speech, with very little else of note taking place. Which is a good thing, as after I’d started by oversleeping and then checking out of the hotel … Continue reading