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Andy C

Andy C

http://www.nbrightside.com/blog/

Wry observations on life in London, a job in IT, the glamour of European business travel, music, and, err, football.

Recent Posts

  • how I ditched iTunes and started living with Foobar 2000

    Posted on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 08:58 in music, apple, windows, audio, itune, itouch, foobar

    [Obligatory hat tip to 'How to stop defragmenting and start living'. As an aside, if you're an Oracle DBA and haven't read this whitepaper, please do so. Now.] I have used various devices and software over my 76 years on this planet to listen ...

  • trainspotting

    Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 07:12 in travel, London, UK, train, commute

    This morning I commuted, Reggie Perrin style, from my leafy suburb into the heart of London by train. Nothing too unusual about that. After I paid for my daily travelcard, I took my place on an unusually crowded platform. An unusually crowded ...

  • three red rings of death

    Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 03:54 in Microsoft, CRM, UK, xbox

    Last Friday, Norman Junior III emerged from his bedroom, looked mournfully at me and pronounced in a quiet voice: 'Dad - I've got the three red rings of death.' 'Just have an aspirin and sit down quietly for a bit. Your mum will be back soon.'...

  • Welcome to Manchester

    Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 03:06 in football, UK, mufc

    'Not in my lifetime.' ...

  • Posterous leveraging Tumblr themes

    Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 05:31 in themes, tumblr, posterous

    I have experimented at various times with both Tumblr and Posterous which are hosted blog services. I tend to view them as useful services for a scrapbook style blog, a linkblog, a lifestream or even a fully fledged blog. If I was starting a blog t...

  • from insurgent to suicide bomber

    Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 04:41 in war, death, bomb, insurgents, ied

    Spontaneously. 'Do you think we used enough dynamite there, Butch ?' ...

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