Brighton may need money, but Brighton does not need Bill Archer’s money. Top marks to Dick Knight.
Wrong person?
New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography launched. Surely it wasn’t Stephen Lawrence that changed policing, but his murderer or murderers, the police themselves and the campaigners that worked on that issue? Poor Stephen Lawrence was just another teenager going about his own business, not someone who helped to form the nation by his own hands.
New phone
So, O2 charge their old customers £59.99 to upgrade to a phone that they give for free to new customers. Unless your bills are as large as mine, in which case they give it to you for free because you are clearly too good a customer to lose.
Which is good.
So, a new Nokia 6230 is winging its way to me.
Slightly unseemly
It almost seems slightly unseemly to post this here. However, decorum and manners notwithstanding, I should like to inform anyone who still intends to purchase a gift for our wedding that the John Lewis list has now been exhausted. There are, however, a number of gifts remaining on the Mottrams list.
We are very fortunate (and grateful) indeed.
The zombies were having fun, the party had just begun!
Ha!
From Boris Johnson’s shiny new weblog (which is clearly going to be the most avidly watched new blog of 2004 – eat your hearts out Belle de Jour and Wil Wheaton!) comes Boris’s sage advice to women who are experiencing difficult pregnancies – get on the teacups at Legoland. Utter class.
Up the rear
Meanwhile, over at wysiwyg, Steve worries about children’s television.
This is St Helena
Radio locator for finding streaming broadcasts. FM is dead? via Gordon. I really must set up that music and radio page that I keep threatening to create. In the meantime, don’t forget radio grayblog, which needs updating but is still pretty damn funky.
No
The Official God FAQ, via LMG.
Alright mate?
I’ve just had a phone conversation with my business banking manager at the NatWest. He’s the most senior business banking manager for West Sussex. He must also be the only bank manager who starts his phone conversations with "Alright mate?"