Aug
31
Digitizing LPs and cassettes.
Category: Music, Technology |
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PlaylistMag has a handy article or two about digitizing music from LPs and cassettes.
Aug
30
Pandora is an internet radio station that attempts to play music you will like, based on your preferences. I’m listening at the moment and have been impressed to find, having told them that I like both New Order and the Stone Roses, that it played Dinosaur Jr. and L.T.W.T.M.S. by The Trouble with Sweeney of […]
Aug
30
Ernie Howell’s scrapbook
Category: Links, Southend United |
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Gary Blatch has just relaunched Ernie Howell’s SUFC scrapbook, featuring autographs, photographs and programme covers from times gone by.
Aug
30
How not to spend a Bank Holiday
Category: Miscellaneous |
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Some toerag drove in to my father-in-law’s car just after midnight yesterday morning. I heard a loud bang and jumped out of bed, hoping I might see something. Unfortunately, I was looking out of the back window, not realising at this point quite what had happened.
A few minutes later my neighbours knocked on the door […]
Aug
30
…or maybe it’s actually quite cool. Someone has seen a number of animals on the London Underground map and isn’t embarrassed about it.
Certainly worth a look.
Aug
30
Godcasting
Category: Christianity |
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Missed Church? Download It to Your iPod. - New York Times
I continue to see articles such as the following and honestly believe this could be a good idea for my church to look in to.
Kyle Lewis, 25, missed going to church one Sunday last month. But he did not miss the sermon.
Mr. Lewis, who regularly […]
Aug
26
A Preacher’s Journey
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Too many people in this country (that’s the UK, for those of you reading this elsewhere) seem to think that the likes of Pat Robertson are representative of US Christianity. From the little of his blog that I’ve read so far, I hope that John Wilks is rather more representative. On the aforementioned individual he […]
Aug
26
Blue Anorak
Category: Southend United |
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The observant reader of my sites will have noticed that the Blue Anorak has not been updated for rather a long time.
I am considering integrating that site with this one. Don’t expect anything to happen in a hurry!
Aug
26
I was wondering yesterday, while reading Georgie Porgie to my daughter quite what on earth it was about. Well, I’ve now found the answer, courtesy of one of those annoying sites which features a singing advert for the mad amphibian and his ringtone. Do not, therefore, look at this site in a busy office unless […]
Aug
26
Eleven and twelve years ago (i.e. from September 1993 until June 1994), I was undergoing my year abroad in Moscow as part of my degree course. I had the good fortune to share rooms with Ben Willbond (Pants Cat in the picture from the 1993 Hallowe’en Party) who was clearly more than just a […]

