The Blink Tag

Yesterday I was reminiscing with someone about the ‘blink’ tag. When I was first on the Internet, I used to write html code in notepad, saving it as *.html. It then turned into a webpage (obviously). That’s how I created my very first ‘homepage’ on geocities!
Favourite annoying ‘effect’ (we didn’t have CSS then) was [...]

The Last Shadow Puppets

a bit of a dig here: I really dig the Last Shadow Puppets right now. They’ve got a nice big band post punk rock sound, and the melodies are really 60s. Even though I normally don’t like that kind of music at all!
Apparently they’re touring from August. I think I’m going to see them if [...]

lenina no longer watches TV

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Yes, a heading that says it all. I think I’ve blogged last week about my big TV (42″ rear projection Toshiba) no longer working properly. Well, up until a week or so ago I still managed to switch it on occasionally. My TV habits were to watch the news after [...]

TV is Broken

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All sorts of things break down here @ lenina’s at the moment: car, washing machine, and now my big 42″ TV. The TV hasn’t been working well for a while - basically it just won’t switch on properly (you have to try 100 times before it works).
This entire week, for instance, I haven’t [...]

Germany in the Final

As people will know by now (if they’re bothered about football..), Germany are in the final. Just a wee comment about the BBC reporting about the Germany-Turkey match - there’s an anti-German bias there, which annoys me:

Philipp Lahm’s last-minute winner sent Germany into the Euro 2008 final and sank a desperately unlucky Turkey.
Lahm stole in [...]

lenina on the Radio tomorrow

I will be radio interviewed tomorrow. w00t. It’s quite cool. I can’t tell you more about it I’m afraid. What I’m going to do though is stream it live and record it to my harddrive via mp3mymp3 (daft name). If I make a fool of myself (it’s live radio), I’m just gonna delete the file [...]

The Futureheads: This is Not the World

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The Futureheads’ new album, This is Not The World, is really quite good. It’s been on my iPod for the last week or so and I’m really happy to have found yet another British album that I actually really like. The great thing about bands like The Futureheads and Maximo Park [...]

Germany v. Austria tonight

Tonight I’ll be watching Germany v. Austria. I might even go and see it in a pub somewhere - I’d phone my male friend J. as he always watches ‘the footie’ in a pub.
On the other hand, I don’t fancy cycling there and back, what with work etc. the next morning (without a car, you [...]

lenina’s Current Cultural Intake

This week-end I started putting some culture into my head. Visually, I started playing Legend of Zelda - The Twilight Princess this afternoon, and I have to say I’m thoroughly enjoying it. I hadn’t touched my PS3 in months (Oblivion, after initially very good, turned a bit directionless which I HATE! in life as well [...]

Maximo Park @ The Fringe 18th August

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Maximo Park are playing on the fringe in August! Great news. It’s what used to be called T on the Fringe (we saw Muse there two years ago and Pixies in 2005). It’s now called The Edge music festival.
At the moment, tickets are still available, but I’ll think they’ll sell out really quickly! [...]