List (and upload, if you feel like it) five songs that start with that letter.
Post them to your journal with these instructions.
ggreig gave me the letter “W”, well he gave me “Z” first but with only eight Z-tracks in my iTunes that would have been somewhat limited so we mutually agreed to go with the second choice.
As a follow-up to Desert Island Discs, the team at work have been doing our top ten films, and this week was my turn. The only condition was that one of the ten had to be set in London. Once again, I’ll be buggered if I’m writing all this lot up and not turning it into a blog post. ( My Top Ten Films... )
At the start of the year I was working Wicked Web in Clerkenwell, living in West Norwood and had been going out with pink_weasel for six months. We went on holiday to Boston and Tennessee. WW moved office to Old Street in the spring. I went to Las Vegas for Andy’s stag weekend.
2001
I took Lettice to Budapest for her birthday. WW started laying staff off towards the end of the year.
2002
WW went into liquidation and hence I was made redundant. I became self-employed and started freelancing for many ex-WW clients. Went to the south of France with Lettice’s family – first time I’d ever seen the Mediterranean.
2003
I spent the first part of the year working on a site for the BBC. Towards the end of the year I started doing contract work via an agency which meant that I got a large refund from the tax man, eventually. I went on a falconry day and flew a Harris Hawk. I asked Lettice to marry me.
I gave up freelancing and started work at Visit London. I started cross posting this blog to LiveJournal and joined LibraryThing and Last.FM. I moved house to larger flat, ten minutes down the road from the old one, and Lettice moved in. We got married and went on honeymoon in Canada.
2006
I learnt XSLT. Lettice also started to work at VL. I joined Flickr
2007
Relaunched visitlondon.com with a new CMS, clocking up a stupid number of days off in lieu in the process. I did jury duty. I joined Facebook. We went to Dublin and Amsterdam.
The sidebar says that there are 25 posts in November. But 5 of those are the automated weekly posts of Twitter updates. And 2, including this one, were actually written a week into December and backdated.
Not good. Worse than last year in fact. I fail at blogging.
You are responsible, reliable, and hardworking – you get the job done.You prefer productive hobbies, like woodworking or knitting. Quiet and serious, you are well prepared for whatever life hands you. You are conservative and down-to-earth. You hardly ever do anything crazy.
In love, you are loyal and honest. If you commit yourself to someone, then you’re fully committed. For you, love is something that happens naturally. And you don’t need romantic gestures to feel loved.
At work, you remember details well and are happy to take on any responsibility. You would make a great business executive, accountant, or lawyer.
How you see yourself: Decisive, stable, and dependable
When other people don’t get you, they see you as: Boring, conservative, and egotistical
Last time I did a Myers-Briggs based personality test I came out as ISTP, so this is the same in 3 out of 4 aspects.
Interestingly I recently took part in a team building day at work based on yet another variation on Jung’s archetypes. Based on the slightly more in depth analysis (compared to an Internet meme) I came out as something that would be E*T* on the M-B system. So the only thing that everyone agrees on is that I’m Thinking rather than Feeling. Which ain’t that much of a surprise
A badly formatted draft of this got posted to the Live Journal mirror by accident, so here’s the full thing, only a few week’s after everyone else did it.