chez dafyd

I’ve just spotted the whole Concert for Diana thingy happening next summer (Al-Jazeera isn’t exactly up to the minute on that sort of news) and looking at the list of performers, just one thing strikes me…

Why no Cliff?

OK… I do like ER, but I think Amazon might be taking it a little far:

The thing is, I’ve never bought any ER DVDs from Amazon… I think it’s turning psychic again.

I just received three copies of this email – I have no idea who the sender is:

Bit random, methinks.

(Sorry to spoil the story for anyone who hasn’t already worked it out)

Exactly a year ago – in my third ever blog entry – I was writing about elections. European elections. How exciting.

Turns out we elected Robert Kilroy-Suntan in those elections. For the record, I didn’t vote for him. Mainly because I wasn’t 18.

Fortunately Kilroy isn’t standing in Rushcliffe this time. We have his representative instead… Daniel [...]

On Monday afternoon, about 3 o’clock, I ordered something from Amazon.co.uk. It arrived on Tuesday morning. With their free SuperSaver shipping.

The way I reckon it, it can only have got here so quickly if they sent it before I ordered it.

Are they using some sort of super-advanced customer profiling, so they can predoct what we [...]

Rob, LemurGirl and Jim have all done it. I suppose I might as well… (I’m desperately avoiding doing these essays that are due in for Friday).

Anyway – 5 things that I have on my desk that I can’t work without

And a boring one at that…

You are a good old-fashioned six-sided cube, otherwise known as a d6. Others know you to be plain, predictable, conservative, average, ordinary, and downright boring. You prefer to describe yourself as dependable, honest, practical and trustworthy. People usually know what to expect from you, since you rarely hold [...]

Nottingham, the city of the Robin Hood legend that became a textiles powerbase during the Industrial Revolution, now struggles with a reputation for drugs killings and teeming with binge drinkers on lawless Saturday nights. (BBC News)

For the record, I have lived in Nottingham for 18 years, and have never once [...]

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That’s right, peeps – it’s the Archers! Ain’t the BBC Radio Player great?! They’ve redesigned it, to make it easier to use – you can now close the player and come back to it days later, and it will remember where you were.

Now all we need is the TV version… (I wish)

Apparently, [...]

As you may have spotted, I’ve started fiddling with how the blog looks. I’ve shrunk the side bar, revamped the blogroll (links to my favourite other sites), and added the linkdump.

So, for the next few days the blog will be in a state of flux… until I get everything working. At the moment, the linkdump [...]