Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Is it wrong that I’d really rather Ollie killed the mice rather than bring them into the house to play? It’s one thing picking up a dead mouse, quite another to spend 20 minutes chasing a live one round the living room at 3 am.
Melody Gardot & R.E.M.
After catching her appearance on Jools Holland (and as a side pondering, does anyone refer to it as “Later… with Jools Holland”? No, it’s just “Jools Holland” innit) I listened to some samples from her album and promptly purchased it.
Listening to it I can picture her onstage persona, sultry jazz singer, and I wonder if that impacts how I engage with her music?
It was the same after I saw R.E.M. a couple of years ago, their last couple of albums had largely escaped my notice (to the point that, for example, I’m still not entirely sure on which album the track “Lotus” can be found), and I was a bit non-plussed… until I heard the tracks live.
Yet after the gig, re-listening to those same tracks now is a different experience.
Yeah I know, nothing startling but it’s been on my mind.
That and the fact that R.E.M.’s new album, Accelerate is rather stonkingly good.
Power out
All of a sudden the screen went blank, the music fell silent, and the power LEDs faded. We’d had a powercut.
“Bugger” he exclaimed in annoyance.
Actually he said “ohh fucksticks” because he was rather cheesed off having spent 30 minutes carefully crafting a newsletter entry. Then hope made an appearance for he had used Google Docs and Google Docs autosaves every now and then and maybe, just maybe, he hadn’t just lost all of his work.
And then the glimmer of hope widened, the websites he’d been using for research were opened in Firefox tabs, perhaps it will have saved them as well.
Lo and behold it was true. Google Docs HAD saved all of his changes, Firefox DID remember which tabs he had open.
Ahh the joy of the righteous, I KNEW I used web apps for a reason.
Mind you, it still amazes me that GOOGLE Docs don’t allow you to send the documents by email… I’m sure they have an email client as well… right?
Financial Ponderingmentness
Between oil prices rising, and the credit crunch … er… crunching, I’ve been taking stock of our financial situation. It’s not that bad, although the looming remortgage will impact it in one way or another.
I’m tempted to go through the remortgage process myself, following the Moneysavingexpert’s guide of course, but wondered if anyone else had done the same?