Archive for November, 2006

Latest Musical Offerings

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Dan Kempster (or Weird Al Dankovic) has started recording his latest album. At the moment only one song has been recorded, but I have been promised more are on the way soon. For the lyrics etc visit Dan’s Site. You can also download or listen to the songs there as they are released.

Odd Shopping List

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

This time I shall start with a list:

Baked beans
Cheeseburger
Cheesecake
Cheese quesadilla
Chicken nuggets
Chicken wings
Crab cakes
Crawfish jambalaya
Deep fried okra
Fruitcake
Hamburger
Hard-boiled eggs
Lobster
Meatballs
Oysters
Pork sandwiches
Sweet potato casserole
Tacos
Toasted ravioli
Turducken
Turkey
Vienna sausage

Despite looking like quite an odd shopping list, Sonya Thomas holds the world record for eating all of these items. Not all at once, that would just be ridiculous, but a separate record for […]

Sorry For The Delay, Leaves On The Line

Friday, November 24th, 2006

OK, I haven’t written anything for a few weeks here. My writing efforts have been focussed on the Tring Cycling Campaign and their new website recently, and all remaining efforts have been directed towards the two pieces of physics coursework and sociology essays that I have been given to complete all at the same time.
Did […]

Digital Signs In Cars

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

OK, other people have used titles such as “Electrophoretic bumper sticker” [Engadget] but I thought that was overcomplicating things a bit. Basically, Volkswagen are developing a bumper sticker that can be digitally changed to display different images and text from within the car. The press photo from VW is a little optimistic, sporting the message […]

UK Failures

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Prompted by a completely unrelated radio phone-in, I decided to type “UK failure” into Google. Most of the results concern something nuclear or something weather related. This is not surprising considering the BBC weather report this morning stated there was “some cold weather, and there’s a lot of weather about this time of year”. That’s […]