I wasn�t going to watch celebrity Big Brother this year but I was totally glued to my screen watching Goldie operate a mini-digger to get food for the housemates. Somehow he managed to get three baskets in one go. For a moment it looked like he was going to tear the garden to shreds with [...]
Published on November 21, 2002
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I know you’re all incredibly jealous of my spiffing original Mathmos lava lamp so I found you this to tide you over:
The Virtual Lava lamp: Just the thing to sp(l)iff up your page and show your “coolness” This simple animation will be a visual delight to people visiting your Web Pages.
And just like the [...]
Published on November 21, 2002
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This amusing animated gif was sent to me this morning: the male brain. Can we have one for the female brain now?
Published on November 20, 2002
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Do you remember a game in the late eighties hosted by Bob Carolgees? I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called but the fondu set was a favourite prize. The idea was to match two of the same item to win them. Anyway, Central Counties Newspapers (North) have a version of [...]
Published on November 20, 2002
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Film
A good friend of mine has been attending an evening class at the local higher education centre in Southampton. He’s been learning web design. More accurately, he’s been learning Dreamweaver. He’s been learning to layout pages using frames and tables. He’s been learning to use the ‘properties’ box to set the font size, colour and [...]
Published on November 19, 2002
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Web design
Ever wondered why girls take so long to get ready? Now you can find out. The Girlie Night Out game reveals all! (literally).
Also, on the same site, a quiz to find out if you own your mobile or if it owns you! Have you ever..
placed your phone on a restaurant table alongside cutlery like it’s [...]
Published on November 19, 2002
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Last night’s episode of I’m Alan Partridge had me in stitches the whole way through. The bit where he was puking up whilst giving a speech after impaling his foot on a spike was just genius. My faith is restored. Your thoughts?
Published on November 19, 2002
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The Office (series two) on DVD is being sold on Ebay! Mental, unoffical and amazingly going for �12 a copy. I’d wait for the offical DVD to come out if I were you. Other Office items available through Ebay here.
And tonight, Alan Partridge episode 2. Your thoughts and comments please.
Published on November 18, 2002
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Helen and I have been home-searching again. We spent most of Saturday in Buckingham looking for our ideal home. Because we can’t have the house we want, we revisited a house we last looked at six months ago. It’s a spacious detached home in the Page Hill area of Buckingham. The interior is largely preventing [...]
Published on November 18, 2002
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Family
This is a formal apology for my appalling spelling on this site. Spell checks don’t fix words that exist. Example: my misuse of the word “loose” for “lose” (cheers Stephen) and my use of “Leads” when I meant “Leeds” (Mike Hoddy). I must do better. I’m taking my spellings home with me to write two [...]
Published on November 15, 2002
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