got a nu wii courtest of cheap deal at sainsbos. natch i took the old one to pieces for fun. so many little screws! so much thermal paste! all our old data is in there somwhere wah. fortunately i saved my mii into a controller. but the virtual console games i saved onto an SD card won't go on to 'this console' so i guess it's keyed to the hardware BAH.

have to get a 2nd motion+ to play some of the smart sports resorts games against jauntyemma

i played me some MARIO KARTS again. i done got golds on most of the 50cc grand prix already. soon will be ready to TAKE ON VER WORLD again.

- Playing Girl Talk on my mac at work. lolz
- Harry in his growed up pyjamas!
- Lots of funny podcasts (C&H, Bugle, Ad&Jo, Perfect 10)
- LOST ready at home to watch
- Cold almost gone - it's at that fun stage
- Mostly skived all week at werk
- Fever Ray album is good
- "Songs Alan Should Listen To" Spotify experiment not total failure. Not heard Anthony Hamilton before, will listen some more
- DUPLO LEGO
- Today I finish first book i've read in months (not that it's any good, but still YAY)
- QNI
– Must get moar ppl round our gaf for fud
– Holiday in June booked (yay for jauntyemma)
– My WordPress plugin is more popular than ever

I have made a blank collaborative playlist on spotify

spotify:user:alantrewartha:playlist:4xxitOzVX0xXmmT6JsTb61
http://open.spotify.com/user/alantrewartha/playlist/4xxitOzVX0xXmmT6JsTb61

add stuff to it and i will listen to it. GUARANTEED*



(* guarantee may not be valid in certain postcodes)

eh? wha' happen in may?

http://hypem.com/zeitgeist/2008/songs/2

(sorry sarah, friday night just didn't happen innit.)

My brain has recently turned to book readin mush. The last 2 books i bought were aages ago and I abandoned both - one was a worthy but boring biog of polymathic Thomas Young, and the other a mildly (for him) annoying William Vollman book on the copernican revolution.

so anyway yesterday i hauled in



the last being my '3 for 2' freebie, honest! (i also re-bought "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" - the tombstone of a hardback i originally had was left behind during one move or another.)

munching through the maths one now. nom nom brane books! at last.

(that 'Hollow Earth' subtitle in full: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface)

(emma is poorly btw ppl)

That Film. We've seen the faithful visuals - the worst thing that can happen is that the dialogue is equally faithful.

'Purple' is one thing on the page, written in the mid 80s when there was nothing better around, and OK YES it sort of suits the portentous story and pompous characters - but on screen, i don't know. rereading the damn thing i was struck that the dialogue just doesn't go 1:1 on to tv/film dialogue. it's not going to, it would test really badly with all but the people who have it memorised already.

hi - i'm on LJ. and just wanted to post the pic above

don't want to muss poptimists with me going "ha ha clubland covers"

April 6th.

OK then.

Though probably not in freefall

http://gizmodo.com/368026/cat-jumps-off-a-plane-lands-on-its-legs

wuh? those crazy russians

Nothing for you here - I'm just putting up some code here in public until I can get it hosted on wordpress.org

Widget Logic very first version.

[From the readme.txt]

Make all sidebar widgets conditional. Widget Logic lets you add wp 'conditional tags' logic to all registered widgets - eg "is_home()" or "is_category(5) || is_single()" - all from the usual widget admin interface.

== Description ==
This plugin gives every widget (even widget's lacking controls) an extra control called "Widget logic".

This text field allows you to specify any wp conditional tags logic to set when the widget appears. Use any standard Conditional Tags (http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags) and even combine them.

== Installation ==

1. Upload `widget-logic.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. That's it. All the configuring is in the usual widget admin interface.

I'll beeeee gone in a NINDIE BAND



I seem to like a new indie band roughly every other year, and perhaps it will be the Futureheads for a second time. It's odd that new stuff should have just appeared - I was only re-listening to them cos of the anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster.

I rather like this new track

"All in all, Rowan Williams seems a more deserving target for mass protests this weekend. Say what you will about Scientologists, but at least they haven't come out against the emancipation of women and equality before the law"

Nick Cohen http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/10/8

I have been wondering why everyone was getting upset. I guess it was because Rowan Williams must have said "I think the emancipation of women and equality before the law is a bad thing".

:-(

http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1575

even as early as the 2nd para, this seems to suggest that perhaps, just perhaps, Nick Cohen might have got the wrong end of the stick.

the twat

Quality Street (1 tin, 1 orange octagon left)
Turkey (4.5kg, 2 rounds of sammich left)
Battlestar Galactica (20 eps, ie series 1 & 7 eps series 2, rest to watch next week)
Slobbin about playin wit son and heir (loads, loads left)

was chosen to report live from some boat on the recent whaling story.

The news anchors in the studio, as they hand over to him, have been visibly smirking.

i finished my book, cos the last 2 chapters were a real bore, so i moved on this morning to listening to the Black Kids EP and the Burial album.

Black Kids, okish fun, rly like one track. it's Go Team shoutiness feel and old-fashioned synth-line indie.

Burial. Not all that too, which i was kind of expecting from the 'ambient 2-step' descriptions. it reminds me of loads of early/mid and late 90s ambient gubbins that's out of fashion (but NOT portishead as Tom suggests). closest i can grasp at at the mo is that early ecstasy of st theresa/seefeel even BoC

when i'm done with that i'll have another stab at britney which i liked more, but still wasn't overawed with the way a lot of ppl seem to have been.

no not stoopid DYS poster 'subvertising'

i mean my culture gets jammed - i can't listen to new music, read my books, read newspapers, watch telly, do crosswords, EVERYTHING. and sometimes i get stuck on one track.

right now i am BOOK READING, and haven't listened to anything since i bought the Britney. don't even know what's out.

sometimes i will spend all my time doing the guardian cryptic crossword and not take in the actual NEWS.

telly is all rubbish. i'm not even listening to pop radio, despite a resolution to do more of that.

WHERE IS THE BALANCE GONE :-(

is it cos i's old? (ans: almost defintely so)

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not fussed about hearing the rest. i'm not keen on a few, but who has the time to say which even if this bored

some albums missing off the list

Electronic - Electronic
Stina Nordenstam - And She Closed Her Eyes
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Orbital - Middle of Nowhere
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Transglobal UNderground - Dream of a 1000 Nations

plus what carsmile sed: giant steps, 30 something, bizarro and 'his and hers'