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Year: 2007

America: Zero Tolerance

11 September, 2007

Americans must have zero tolerance for pain.  Last week I had one of my remaining two wisdom teeth extracted (the final one being so calcified over with bone that to remove it would mean cutting a hole in my jaw, which I didn’t fancy).  I scheduled my appointment for 8:00am to minimize the interruption to […]

Whatever happened to BeerScene?

24 August, 2007

I know it’s hard to believe from the truly amateur feel of this blogsite, but this isn’t my first foray into Web development.  In fact, this is the fourth or fifth website I’ve put together.  My first (and most widely-read) website was BeerScene.  I still get asked about this every so often, so for historical record, […]

This Lost Boy, Back From the Wilderness…

10 August, 2007

Many years ago (1988), I took my girlfriend-at-the-time to see Roy Harper play live.  He was supported by a young singer/songwriter/guitarist called James Varda.  The gig was excellent, and I was so impressed with James Varda, that I bought his debut LP, Hunger (direct from the record label , as HMV didn’t carry it).  It didn’t disappoint, […]

AT&T Are Shit

23 July, 2007

(Sorry, I can’t think of a witty title, because this just isn’t funny…) About a month ago, a representative from AT&T called round offering me their Uverse service free on a couple of month’s trial.  This is a combined cable TV and internet service, and although I already used AT&T’s DSL service for my internet […]

The Bible Was Wrong*

16 July, 2007

The in-laws are currently visiting, so I thought I may as well take a week’s vacation (first one since we went to Spain in 2005, I think…) and go somewhere interesting.  ‘Interesting’ turned out to be Memphis, Tennessee.  “Why Memphis??” everyone here in Houston asked.  “Why Memphis??” everyone in Memphis asked.  I’d like to think […]

Paranoid? Sure, without Little Dirk to look out for me now…

4 July, 2007

Today is the 4th July, which is a public holiday here in the U.S. (officially, it’s Independence Day, although everyone just calls it “4th July” which makes me think they’ve forgotten exactly what they are celebrating).  It’s probably the biggest public holiday of the year, which means that just about everything grinds to a halt.  Except […]

The Black Keys, The Warehouse, Houston

17 June, 2007

I’ve been back in Houston for four months now, and decided that it was about time I got back into the live music scene.  There was no-one I desparately wanted to see, playing, but I fancied a night out, so I took my chances with The Black Keys, at the Warehouse. I hadn’t heard anything […]

Still got game

8 June, 2007

A couple of days ago I was rummaging around in one of the many boxes of crap piled up in my study, when I found my old Nintendo Donkey Kong game (you know, the old orange clam-shell one).  I don’t know why I’ve still got it – maybe out of sentimental gratitude for all the dull church […]

Bureaucracy: Belgium’s greatest export

1 June, 2007

I thought that I’d left all of the bureaucracy behind when I left Belgium earlier this year, but no.  It seems that not content with foisting their arcane machinations on the rest of Europe, the Belgians have now set their sights on the global stage. On July 15th, a new law will come into effect […]

Road – it’s all the rage!

11 May, 2007

This commute is killing me.  A couple of nights ago it took me an hour and 40 minutes to get home from work.  For a 20-mile journey, on a single stretch of motorway – the infamous I-10 (a.k.a. the Katy Freeway).  That’s an average of 12 mph – which just shows that the police are […]


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