Month: July 2002

80s Music

Vaughan asks whatever happened to… [fill in obscure 80s one-hit wonder band member]

The first thing it kicked off for me was the memory of a track from my first ever record – a Long Player. The track was “A man called Marco” a small guitar piece from the Adam & the Ants album “Friend or Foe”.

Kids, a Long Player was also called an album and was made of black vinyl. You put it on a turning plate thingy and placed a needle on an arm into the grooves made on the record (OK, now I have Madonna’s “Into the Groove” in my head … You can dance, for inspiration…).

Those heady days. Will we ever see New Romance like it again? God I hope not!

Typing is hard

A colleague was just asking about why we use the QWERTY keyboard system, this prompted discussions about typing, and other keyboard layouts, such as the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.

Do YOU know how QWERTY came about? Neither did I.

Obscene words

The Vocabula Review

“Fuck” is an interesting word, linguistically speaking. It has the virtues of brevity, adaptability, expressiveness, and is understood universally. It has a huge number of synonyms, ranging from coy euphemisms to acceptable jocular equivalents to coarse vulgarities.

Monkeying around

Roof-top chair move sparks rooftop monks’ brawl.
This was an experiment. Did the title ‘Monkeying around’ give you a certain image as you read the article? Yeah, same as me then…

Scrummy

New format, new approach, and once again a redesign that makes me cry with jealously. A site deep in content, take your time, don’t rush through speakeasy.

Confused

We have two digital handsets at home.

They are made (as says the sticker on the box) by Ascom.

Ascom’s website is here: www.ascom.com.

Their support website for handsets (terminals), taken from the handset User Guide, is here: www.ascom.com/terminals.