I’m going over to WordPress 2.5, it looks groovy, I’m looking forward to it. Things may look a bit funny on the site for a while, however, as I disable all the plugins for the upgrade, and then work out which ones I won’t need anymore because of the new functionality.
Thank you for your patience!
TweetHumph made life better. I first became aware of him on I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue in the early ’90s, going to several recordings and enjoying his extraordinary dead pan wit. Later, when I got into jazz, I couldn’t believe that this great wonderful trumpeter was the same man. How could he have so much talent? Through The Best of Jazz he enlarged my interest in music and introduced me to a variety of wonderful artists.
Humph died at 7pm yesterday. I will miss hearing him.
TweetI could swear earlier today it had changed to the style of the American site. I could swear because there was a little link advertising the site redesign and offering a tour. I took a little look round, and decided I like the old UK version better.
That version is now back, it appears to me. What’s going on?
Well, it seems a new version has been appearing intermittently since at least October – see here – but that’s even more odd. What are they doing, why are they waiting, are they going to think better of it? Or is there some preference I can (and have inadvertently) set to see the old version?
TweetAccording to Sam Woollaston 95% of the straight male population fancy Anna Friel. I’ve got to say I think this statistic is highly suspect. Poppycock, even. Quite how he comes up with such a ridiculously low figure he doesn’t explain, but there should be some serious justification for that insane 5%. I remember Nancy Banks-Smith describing our anticipation when Friel appeared in Poliakoff’s otherwise fairly feeble The Tribe.
Pushing Daisies was too insubstantial to actually have come away with any lasting notion of what it was about, but it’s lovely to have Anna back after 7 years. Equally remarkable, though less significant, is the fact that Jim Dale of Carry On is not dead (though give the nature of this show he may have been – and just got “touched” 16 years after Carry On Columbus). Weird, too, to see House‘s Vogler in very different role. I knew him, but I’d never have placed him without IMDB.
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