With a new album just over the horizon, Metallica are on a major PR offensive and doing all sorts of interviews.  Today was the turn of the Guardian, with a full-page spread.  It covers a lot of the same ground as other articles, but does contain this decent quote from James Hetfield: [Read more →]

Crawley Observer's page 7 from Sept 3rd 2008

Its a safe bet that any readers from outside of this corner of West Sussex are unlikely to have seen page 7 of this week’s Crawley Observer, so it is reproduced here as a public service.

This poor woman was attacked by her own dog and, in the words of the paper, had her face torn off.  Even worse, it was her own dog, which she had to have destroyed afterwards. Surprisingly, of her two dogs it was the greyhound rather than the lurcher that did it.

Anyway, the paper treated the story with all due sympathy and without getting carried away.  An effect only spoiled by the advert that ended up in the bottom-right corner underneath the story…  (click on the picture to see it properly)

There are many reasons why I would like to see Barack Obama win the US presidential election this year, but this one really stands out: who would have thought that Obama follows the Irons?

Today I took the plunge and downloaded Chrome, the new browser from Google.  I would have done it earlier but for the last couple of days I have been a bit out of it - yesterday I decided to take a quick nap at 7pm and slept through to this morning!  All the fallout from having had a few nights of not being able to sleep well, but now my batteries are re-charged and I have had a play with Chrome, so here are a few first impressions. [Read more →]

So…  Kevin Keegan has quit Newcastle, just a day after Alan Curbishley quit the Hammers.  It looks like they both went for more or less the same reason: they have the traditional view of a club manager being in charge of everything but their clubs are going with the continental system of having directors of football. [Read more →]

What an eventful day the last day of the transfer window was in the end.  As usual a lot of the action and most of the speculation concerned Tottenham in one way or another but it was Manchester City who grabbed the headlines, first for being taken over by the Abu Dhabi United Group, then for being tipped to divert Berbatov from United to City and finally for outbidding Abramovich and snatching Robinho.  They had also talked about getting David Villa. [Read more →]

The South-East England Regional Assembly (SEERA) are currently running a consultation aboutthe provision of new legal campingplaces for gypsies, travellers and travelling showpeople.  The consultation is open until November 21st.   Anybody can respond to the consultation either in a private capacity as a resident or in a representative capacity, if appropriate.  You don’t even have to hunt for a stamp because it can all be done online. [Read more →]

I just finished reading a book called The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon which turned out to be a very bloggy book: not in it’s style but in it’s references.  Towards the end there is a pretty neat description of blogs:

A blog is the movie of your life, with subtitles, only it’s the subtitles that do all of the moving in your movie and not the image above. Also, you’re the producer, director, DOP, editor and, most importantly, subtitler. [Read more →]

British comedy has had a bad week with the death of Ken Campbell following very soon after that of Geoffrey Perkins.  If it was possible to measure such things objectively I think you would find the world is now several percentage points less funny than it was last week. [Read more →]

I wonder if this is a good idea?  If BAA are forced to sell off one or two of their London airports, Virgin are interested in buying Gatwick as part of a consortium. [Read more →]