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One line thoughts of the day.

The Guardian’s Marina Hyde thinks meetings should be banned for a month, as a way of improving productivity. I think she may be on to something here. But I wonder how much attitude towards meetings is an extrovert/intravert thing. Do extraverts ever understand how much introverts loathe meetings?

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Tim Hall | 1 Comment

When you get the “Windows help” phone scam, you are supposed to put the phone next to the subwoofer and turn the volume up to Eleven, aren’t you?

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

Ending up with tweenaged children obsessed with JLS, Justin Beiber and One Direction is surely the price parents pay for neglecting their childrens’ musical education.

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Tim Hall | 2 Comments

Can’t help but laugh at this Gary Bainbridge review of boy-band JLS. But on the other hand, while we all love a snarky review of something we hate, those of us who are prog fans are all too used to seeing similar reviews of music we love.

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

Synchronicity in the news. Tory minister Maria Miller says “British culture must become a commodity“, a statement that speaks volumes for their values. Then the news that the manufactured talent-show boy-band JLS are to split up, but not until after they’ve raked in the money from a farewell tour and album.

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

Not quite sure to make of the fact that Reading’s local paper has “Twitter hashtag hijacked by Japanese cartoon fans” as the lead item on the front page. The #rdg hashtag is currently full of Tweets (in Japanese!) connected with the Anime show Red Data Girl. Does that really justify being front page news, or is it a very slow news week in Reading?

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Tim Hall | 3 Comments

The infamous Cambridge “misguided busway” (An ill-conceived project than has all the disadvantages of both rail and road and the advantages of neither) is not supposed to carry freight. Should have been heavy rail instead?

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

So it’s confirmed that there will be no High Voltage Festival this year. When April rolled around with no announcement about the bill, did anyone seriously think there was still going to be a festival?

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

Editing draft blog posts or reviews prior to publication seems to be a matter of breaking up over-long and convoluted run-on sentences. Does this mean my writing is too prog?

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Tim Hall | 4 Comments

Even though I don’t actually use Google Reader, as someone that’s been blogging for over a decade, it’s demise will diminish my voice outside of the walled gardens of social networks. I don’t think this is in any way a good thing.

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Tim Hall | 2 Comments