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Thursday 28 January 2010

Sing Hallelujah

BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers learning event



Various community choirs from Watford and the area - Kings Langley Community Choir, Gospel Arts Manna Community Gospel Choir, Watford Palace Theatre Community Choir, Watford School of Music Soul Singers together with conductor Tim Murray, 4 BBC Singers and 6 members of the BBC Concert Orchestra. They learnt and recorded the Hallelujah chorus in two hours.
Event Details

BBC Concert Orchestra/Singers Learning Event

Wednesday 18th December 2009, 7:30pm

Main Hall, Watford Boys School, Rickmansworth Road, Watford, WD18 7JF

* Visit the BBC Concert Orchestra's website
* Visit the BBC Singer's website

The I'm Feeling Lucky Alphabet

a is for http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/
b is for http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/?_requestid=1640
c is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
d is for http://www.digitalmars.com/d/
e is for http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/index.jsp
f is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
g is for https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox
h is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H
i is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
j is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
k is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K
l is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
m is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre
n is for http://www.addictinggames.com/ngame.html
o is for http://www.o2.co.uk/assets2/errors/maintenance.html
p is for http://www.poferries.com/
q is for http://www.qthemusic.com/
r is for http://www.r-project.org/
s is for http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/index.jsp
t is for http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/
u is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U
v is for http://www.vfestival.com/
w is for http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1175491/
x is for http://www.x.org/wiki/
y is for http://m.uk.yahoo.com/
z is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z

Monday 18 January 2010

Octagonal Room

You find yourself in an octagonal room. On each wall of the room there is one door. Seven doors are unlocked. One door is locked and you do not have the key. You want to get out of the room. You stand by the locked door and hope that it will open. This is what it means to be depressed.

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Update on: Twaddlology

Just checked on Google and there is just one entry for Twaddlology, my own definitive previous post. To get the ball rolling a bit, I've posted a comment on a Comment is Free article by Charlie Brooker - There's no hope left for Labour – apart, perhaps, from hopelessness itself.

Tuesday 12 January 2010

Twaddlology

n., pl., -gies.
  1. The science that deals with twaddle and twaddle-like behaviour.
  2. The foolish and prattish characteristics of an individual, group, or activity: the twaddlology of war.
  3. Puerile tactical action or argument used to manipulate or influence another: He used poor twaddlology on his employer when trying to make the point.
  4. Philosophy. The branch of epistemology that studies the nonsense, untruths and deceptiveness, and the relationship of untruths to logic and the mind.
Twaddlology - a word arrived fully formed, with its own definition and everything.

Iris drops off the radar

The BBC's headline "Iris Robinson receiving acute psychiatric treatment" means that her status as a non-person has now been confirmed. Mrs Robinson can no longer speak for herself. After all, she might have said something which would be damaging to Mr Robinson's attempt to save his political career, and this was a risk that was not worth taking.

It is better for all the sane parties that the words of the insane are unheard, they may just spoil the party. Iris' dignity is as nothing compared with Peter's salvage operation, so Peter and the DUP are free to comment on her suicide attempt, affair, mental health and anything else which may just give Peter a scrap of hope that he can survive the political heat. Fortunately for Peter, Iris is already widely reviled and so elicits little sympathy. Iris has hurt Peter, so Peter need not worry too much if he now hurts Iris. No one will care. Except Iris. But then that doesn't count because she is mentally ill. Just one more loony, dropping out of sight ...