Archive for the ‘Memes’ Category

  1. Reply to this post and I’ll assign you a letter.
  2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) five songs that start with that letter.
  3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

[info]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.

Argh! That was hard. I had a long list of about 25 and a short list of ten but getting it down to five took all evening.


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... )


Via [info]lonemagpie

Your result for The Steampunk Style Test…

The Citizen

25% Elegant, 17% Technological, 67% Historical, 56% Adventurous and 29% Playful!

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2000

At the start of the year I was working Wicked Web in Clerkenwell, living in West Norwood and had been going out with [info]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.

2004

I started this blog and spent several months working for the Home Office.

2005

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.

2008

We went to Venice. I learnt JSP and jQuery. I joined Twitter

2009

We went to Barcelona and tried to buy a house. I grew a moustache for charity.


I blew it

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. :-(


Via Miss SB comes the Can you list all your MPs? meme.

  • 1973 – 1974 Geoffrey Howe (Con) Reigate
  • 1974 – 1976 George Gardiner (Con) Reigate
  • 1976 – 1979: Sir George Evelyn Sinclair (Con) Dorking
  • 1979 – 1983: Keith Wickenden (Con) Dorking
  • 1983 – 1992: Kenneth Baker (Con) Mole Valley
  • 1992 – 1997: John Patten (Con) Oxford West and Abingdon
  • 1997 – 1998: Paul Beresford (Con) Mole Valley
  • 1998 – present: Tessa Jowell (Lab) Dulwich and West Norwood

Baker, Patten and Jowell are the ones I was aware of, which was depressing enough…

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Via [info]lonemagpie

Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?…

Ursula K Le Guin

3 High-Brow, -7 Violent, -3 Experimental and 3 Cynical!

Congratulations! You are High-Brow, Peaceful, Traditional and Cynical! These concepts are defined below.

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Very True Mood: (grumpy) grumpy
Very True Music: Brother Typewriter - Very True Things
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Via [info]linniekin


You Are An ISTJ
The Duty Fulfiller

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

What’s Your Personality Type?

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

Very True Mood: (mellow) mellow
Very True Music: Last.FM Boffin set on

Hey kids, the latest craze is to stack your (toy) animals. Well it keeps us off the streets…

Very True Mood: (silly) silly

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.

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