Today pink_weasel has been visiting her brother in his new flat. As said flat is in Bracknell, I declined.
Though mostly I was just too knackered from a frustrating week at work and a lack of sleep. So I stayed at home and cleared out a cupboard, played some computer games (the final cut scene in Unreal Tournament 3 reminds me of the end of Blake’s 7) and chilled out.
The farmers’ market in West Norwood seems to be struggling. Only six stalls this week – two meat, one veg, one bread, two pointless.
My computer runs a lot better with the case open. This probably isn’t a good sign. Still, soon I’ll have a Wii to play with so the damn PC will be relegated to email checking only.
A puzzle: I got a £50 cheque from YouGov. I thought I only had half that amount on my account there and as I haven’t been able to log in for a few months (I’ve requested password resets but the email never arrives) I really don’t know what’s going on.
Hmph.
Very True Mood: melancholy
Very True Music: Let's Talk About Girls - The Undertones
Visit London employs just under 100 people. So what are the odds that it employs someone who overlapped with me at Ballioland is just about to employ someone who was in the year above me at Reigate Grammar (and also employs someone who happens to be my wife)?
Lettice and I went down to Brighton yesterday to enjoy a bit of sunshine and sea air. That all went according to plan – some photos are on Flickr. Also, a fabulous lunch at AlFresco and a very good haul from the second hand bookshops and comic shops (including the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier). Can all weekends be like this, please?
Just watched the first episode of Ashes to Ashes. Fun, in a slightly different way to Life on Mars and not sure whether it’s quite as good.
The fact that it doesn’t just replicate the previous serious but is taking the climax of that as a starting point is refreshing; it means that this time around the historical inaccuracies can be more openly incorporated into the storyline and played with. This may nominally be 1981 but it’s really an amalgam of all of Alex’s memories, accurate or otherwise, of the 1980s in general. For example, whilst I wouldn’t rule out the yuppie banker drug dealer he does seem to belong to a slightly later part of the decade, and more concretely – all those posters for Prince Charming? It was released six months after this episode was set.
I met Jeremy Beadle once. He was hosting a charity quiz night that WW sent a team along to.
No one had him on their lists for this year’s Deadpool game.
This morning we launched a revised version of the Visit London home page. Along with a tie up with Trip Advisor, a new Japanese site and a site for the China in London season, as well as lots of behind the scenes improvements, it’s been a really packed January.
One thing that crosses over from behind the scenes to public is the addition of microformats to the site. hCard, hCalendar and hReview are all in use. Whilst hCard was straightforward to implement I found the hCalendar and hReview formats a little tricky to apply to our data. Anyway, install Operator and take Firefox for a whirl on the site and see what you find.
Rugby tomorrow. Oh yes, it’s Six Nations time again.
Very True Mood: accomplished
Very True Music: Coin-Operated Boy - The Dresden Dolls
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pink_weasel has been visiting her brother in his new flat. As said flat is in Bracknell, I declined. 
melancholy
confused
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accomplished