Lest you think I’m not doing anything, I’m actually knee deep in a program to reverse engineer an Oracle schema. Meanwhile, and not totally coincidentally, I’m beginning to resemble Bob from Teachers. The most common phrase I’m mumbling as a wander around the office at the moment is “and the horse you rode in on.” …
Monthly Archives: September 2003
Family Values
I had a hard "away day" today, Sitting in a hotel meeting room being filled in on the good old corporate vision. Afterwards we retired to a local hostelry for stick and ball related games and sponsored drinking. For the first time ever I was the first one to leave the pub. My motivations were …
Dear Lord No
How can a travesty such as this exist? What is needed to make the world a better place is not to withdraw the troops from Iraq, or force Jeff Hoon to resign – although they would help. No, what we need to do is boycott Sony Music for inflicting this hideous rubbish on the world. …
Busy Doing Nothing
I was subject to, I think, a little karmic payback this morning. I really didn’t want to go to visit our client today, but I got up at 6 anyway. As I was drinking my coffee and listening to the Candyman before the start of my mammoth journey the travel news came on. The headline …
Comedy Attire
I was going to let you know about the joys of my weekend. The highs and lows, the triumphs and setback, but then Simon put up a link to meatandcheese.co.uk: any thoughts of that ilk got replaced by me rolling around laughing. These t-shirts are great and I want one now! A particular favourite around …
Busy Doing Nothing
This weekend will mainly be taken up with watching the cricket and the rugby, learning everything there is to know about JDBC and avoid the copious streams of vomit issuing from my son. And who said life was dull?
Maintenance
Look, down to the left, there be pictures. Inspired by those typepad blogs I’ve enhanced my currently reading and listening section to show the covers of the appropriate items. Which is nice. Elsewhere, and for no particular reason, I’ve made my cv available on this page. No reason you understand. None whatsoever.
In Lieu
of original content, let me bring you two pearls of the english language. From Mil Millington; "I then made the kind of face you’d see on someone who was standing in a wind tunnel having the hairs pulled from their legs." Then, for the 70’s throwback, from messrs Fagen and Becker; "Why is he standing …
Great Phrases
David Blaine, nutbag? Certainly. Entertaining? Perhaps. Poker Faced King of Hokum? Abso-bloody-lutely. It’s the phrase of the week here at Whats Doing and it comes courtesy of the King of Radio.
Time Flies By
When you are hurtling headlong into Winter. As Steve notes, the global marketing machine is winding up for the winter assault on our sensibilities now that we have turned the corner into September. Here in London the heat wave is well and truly a thing of the past. Bobo has been sneaking the central heating …