Hello again!  This time from Würzburg.  It#s a small-ish place but nice enough, and has both a huge (re-constructed) castle AND a huge (and UNESCO listed) palace, which can#t be bad.  And the hostel is not only called "Babel Fish" and has a "Hitchhikers"-related image on each dormitory door, but the Internet terminal I#m using is running SUSE Linux ( Read more... )

Hello again.  Things are going a lot better than last I wrote.  For starters, I now have my whole trip mapped out, with the exception of the very last night before I descend on Freiburg.  Stef has instructed me to see Neuschwanstein castle, but it#d mean a 5 hour train journey to get there and then a 6 hour journey onwards to Freiburg, leaving me ( Read more... )

Argh!  Bloody german keyboards, just managed to lose everything I´d just written ...  So, yes, I am in Germany!  It#s all going well so far, except that I grossly underestimated how difficult it#d be finding a room... everywhere appears to be heaving!  I had to try  3 or 4 hotels in Düsseldorf before I was successful.  Of course, having been bitten ( Read more... )

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For reasons I now forget, I just googled "renegade master" to find out who the artist behind this dance classic was, and discovered that not only was he (one Roger McKenzie, aka DJ Wildchild), born in Southampton, but died in 1995 at the age of just 24 from an undiagnosed heart condition. Blimey.

There's some pop trivia for you! As you were.

I like my flat sometimes. It's on the first floor, on the outside of a bend in the road, and looks vaguely west. So every now and again, you're treated to views like this. Evening all!
P.S. I'm not so keen on my internet though; it keeps cutting off the radio. Get a grip, internet!


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Hell yeah! Ben Goldacre, who writes the Bad Science column for the Guardian and runs the website of the same name, will be speaking in my work's Monday lunchtime seminar slot in July. Sadly, this is easily the most exciting thing to happen so far in my current job...

Well, hello there, Internet.

I should be going to see Envy And Other Sins tonight, who've risen from playing such illustrious venues as the Hobbit and Lennons in Southampton to winning Mobile Act Unsigned. Weirdly, I never saw them on the show, or even knew they were on it, as they got voted out but got voted in again later on, and the couple of ( Read more... )

Had a boozy night in last night, and we saw a fantastic Yugoslavian film called Black Cat, White Cat, which had been recommended to us by friends. And I can, in turn, highly recommend it to you; it's fecking great! The plot is nothing particularly original -- a zany comedy about small-time gangsters, a heist gone wrong, a shotgun wedding and a ( Read more... )