Tommy refusing a biscuit. Something tells me he's not well.

Last.fm and iTunes are still disagreeing like politicians and scientific advisors.

Microsoft - for no longer recognising my 2gb memory unit, I hate you.

Mmmmm donuts

Off to the dentist. tra-la-la.

Why do so many people think that appearing on Ellen/Oprah is the equivalent of being published in "Nature"?

The idea of the clocks going back was invented by someone who hates parents.

I think I'm in love with Joanna Page.

Watching last night's Jonathan Ross. Boy George appears to be turning into Grotbags.

This episode of buzzcocks is car crash, but absolute genius.

Ah. Barely six and I'm off to Peterborough. Joy.

Just setup a wireless router as a wireless access point. I know it's not much, but I'm chuffed.

Well done Jenson, well done Brawn. Brilliant stuff.

Being sucked into Black Books again.

Fsckin' iPod! Fsckin' iTunes! Fsckin' Last.fm! All sh1te, the lot of ya.

Wow! Lloyd Gardener. My new hero.

Hopefully, that's my broadband sorted.

I'm having internet problems. Please bare with me.

Listening to The Who makes me feel like I'm in Rushmore.

And the home pc goes pop.

Boingy Boingy?

Can't decide between swift, I tweet or twidroid. Decisions, decisions.

Lisa may be a very pretty cat, but she farts like a tramp.

So glad that all the cats are getting on.

Migraine through the night. That's novel... and rather annoying.

This week's listening

Bit of a weird one this week. No more N95, now have an HTC Hero - which is lovely. Plus, as of early last week I now have a huge, big iPod Classic.

So now my listening is going really nicely. But my scrobbling hasn't been.

Seems the latest version of iTunes and/or the latest version of the Last.fm scrobbler don't work with the latest iPod Classic.

Finally got something working tonight by using a little app. called LastPod. It's working, but has only scrobbled what I've been listening to since I last synced with iTunes.

So I won't post my week's listening, but normal service should resume next week.

KTHXBAI

Just finished watching starship troopers. Classic.

I'm sure the biggest thing that contributes to the NHS having a bad name is the attitude of GPs receptionists.

Welcome to our freaky little family Lisa/Poppy.

Glad I'm not the only Englishman planning a trip to sa in the not too distant future.

Glad I'm not the only Englishman planning a trip to as in the not too distant future.

Can't get rid of the taste of that Durian Fruit sweet. It's like someone's been sick in my mouth.

Really not feeling it today.

Let's see how pingdroid goes.

OK I admit it. I love my phone probably to an unhealthy extent.

Can't wait for the family to be back together again.

Not really sure where the weekend went. Knackered and stiff, but can't wait to see the kids' reaction.

Productive day's painting. Three walls down, now to relax.

First coat of first wall done. Gonna be a long day.

Cool. Optimus Prime is the voice of Eeyore.

Liking the new phone.

Getting everything ready for switchover to new phone tomorrow.

I'm on holiday! Yay!
...
that is all.

I'm on holiday! Yay!
...
that is all.

This week's most listened to Artists (and some stats for the last 3 months)

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week.

Artists

1. The White Stripes
2. The Decemberists
3. R.E.M.
4. Queens of the Stone Age
5. Mark Mothersbaugh
5. The Pigeon Detectives
5. Goldfrapp
8. Biffy Clyro
8. Razorlight
8. Fleet Foxes

And as it's 3 months since I last did it...

Last 3 months (Artists)

1. The Beatles
2. R.E.M.
3. Soundgarden
4. Scissor Sisters
5. At the Drive-In
6. Queens of the Stone Age
7. Pearl Jam
8. Foo Fighters
9. Sigur Rós
9. The Decemberists

Last 3 months (Albums)

1. Snow Patrol – Eyes Open [Deluxe Limited Edition CD/DVD]
2. The Beatles – Rubber Soul [UK]
3. Soundgarden – Superunknown
3. Queens of the Stone Age – R [Japan Bonus Track]
5. Audioslave – Audioslave
5. Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters [UK Bonus Tracks]
7. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
8. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command [Bonus Track] [12 Tracks]
9. R.E.M. – Green
10. Catherine Wheel – Adam and Eve

I'm on holiday! Yay!
...
that is all.

This week's most listened to artists

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week.

Artists

1. BBC Radio 4
1. The Killers
1. The Stone Roses
4. The Beatles
5. The Decemberists
5. Snow Patrol
5. Green Day
5. Scissor Sisters
9. Soundgarden
9. A Perfect Circle

This week's most listened to artists

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week.

Artists

1. Fennesz
2. R.E.M.
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers
4. Sigur Rós
5. Kings of Leon
6. At the Drive-In
6. Queens of the Stone Age
8. The Mars Volta
8. Fleet Foxes
8. The Beatles

Finally catching up with Torchwood. V. Cool.

This week's posts

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week.

Artists

1. The Decemberists
2. Pearl Jam
3. Green Day
4. Animal Collective
4. Basement Jaxx
6. Queens of the Stone Age
6. The Beatles
8. Interpol
8. London Oratory School Scholars/London Philharmonic
8. Sigur Ros

Sometimes wish there was a love+ button on Last.fm. One heart just isn't enough for some tracks.

absolutely magnificent. Maybe even better than rushmore.

wrapped in the warm embrace of wes anderson.

Really impressed with the boys' school. Think they're gonna be really happy there. Now if only they'd get over the excitement and sleep.

Pardon my french, but fuck me.

Tennis is so tense i had to fast forward to watch it live.

Is feeling like a proud dad today.

Soo old. Glasto weekend and i've just been to a steam rally.

This week's posts

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week.

Artists

1. Foo Fighters
2. Coldplay
3. Sigur Ros
4. The Smashing Pumpkins
4. Nirvana
4. The Beatles
7. Weezer
7. Soundgarden
9. R.E.M.
9. Audioslave

So Jacko's dead, eh? Probably for the best.

Feels warmer here than portugal. Know where i'd rather be though.

If anyone needs me i'll be in portugal. Bye ;)

Unable to shake off this feeling of meh. Stupid, cos it's sunny and I'm off to Portugal on Thursday.

Off to the farm. In wythenshawe. Yeah, i don't get it either.

This week's music

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week.

Artists

1. Animal Collective
1. The Horrors
3. The Beatles
4. Pixies
5. A Perfect Circle
5. Jeff Buckley
5. Coldplay
5. At the Drive-In
9. Sigur Ros
9. R.E.M.

Aw shit. We're gonna crash into mars... Well, we might... In three billion years. Still, it's a worry.

Tired but satisfied after the big birthday weekend. Check out our flickr site for pics.

Fantastic birthday with the boys. Lots of good kids whose parents should be proud.

This week's music

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week (and as it's the end of a month, here are the top tracks too).

Artists

1. The Beatles
2. R.E.M.
3. [unknown]
4. Helmet
4. My Chemical Romance
6. Soundgarden
6. Foo Fighters
6. Pixies
9. Red Hot Chilli Peppers
9. Audioslave

Hrmph. Rain. Please stop.

Still enjoying being mildly sedated.

Had a fantastic few days with the kids. Maybe i will keep them after all.

My kids have just been singing along to eminem. I'm so proud.

This week's music

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week (and as it's the end of a month, here are the top tracks too).

Artists

1. The Beatles
2. R.E.M.
3. Scissor Sisters
3. Foo Fighters
5. Howard Shore
6. Soundgarden
6. Pixies
8. Coldplay
8. At the Drive-In
8. Interpol

I'm genuinely proud to be married to the employee of the year.

Sun this is legs. Legs - sun. Have you met?

Wonder how kerry feels about her nephew putting her pants in the bin.

The boys saying how much they love Grandma & Grandad - one of few things to bring a tear to my eye.

This week's music

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week (and as it's the end of a month, here are the top tracks too).

Artists

1. The Beatles
2. R.E.M.
3. Helmet
4. The Strokes
4. The Smashing Pumpkins
6. Snow Patrol
6. Scissor Sisters
8. At the Drive-In
8. Jeff Buckley
10. Foo Fighters

Top Tracks

1. Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes
1. The Beatles - Tell Me What You See
1. The Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning Is the End Is the
4. Tool - Third Eye
4. The Strokes - Reptilia
4. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - On Mercury
4. Pearl Jam - Go
4. Helmet - Beautiful Love
4. R.E.M. - Sitting Still
4. R.E.M. - Talk About the Passion

Fix You (Live) on LeftRightLeftRightLeft. Wow!

Congratulations Mark. You're not gonna know what hit you.

I'm in love with my new iGrado headphones. Especially cos they're free.

RT @daxboy: If you get an email from the Department of Health telling you not to eat tinned pork because of #swineflu, please ignore it. It's just Spam.

Despite my better judgement, I'm really starting to like DragonForce.

Feeling satisfied. Good day with the boys followed by a nice pot roast. Mmm

Tough year to support both Hull and Boro.

This week's music

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week

Artists

1. The Beatles
2. R.E.M.
3. Soundgarden
4. Pearl Jam
5. Queens of the Stone Age
5. Scissor Sisters
7. Smashing Pumpkins
8. Helmet
9. Nirvana
9. BBC Radio 4

Tired and my meeting hasn't even started yet. Thanks for the 4am wake up call ;)

Reach for the Sky MoFo

So after having an HD-Ready TV for three years and after resisting the temptation for all that time, we finally got Sky HD installed yesterday. There was a huge delay in getting it installed, apparently due to high demand.

So far, I'm very impressed - particularly with Channel 4's output. But I do have a couple of gripes:

1. Audio setup is a bit of a pain when transmitting video to the TV through HDMI and audio to the A/V Amp through the optical output. It's not that it's complicated, just that the difference in the amount of time the two take to decode their signals mean that you have to fiddle to get it synced properly. And anyone who's ever looked too closely at syncing on tv will know that no matter how hard you try, it never seems quite right after you've looked at it too much.
2. Sky doesn't seem keen to transmit aspect ratio info via HDMI. I'm not someone who likes to stretch what I'm watching to 16:9 but rather I like to watch TV in it's native format. Unfortunately, if you decide to set the box to send it's picture as 1080i (the highest my tv can support - it's three years old remember) and therefore upscale normal tv everything is fixed at 1080i - and therefore stretched if it was 4:3 or letterbox. If you set it to auto-detect, then SD broadcasts look really nasty when shown alongside HD. Some channels overcome this nicely (Sci-Fi HD, FX HD, even Sky 1 and Channel 4 HD) by putting their own side-bars down each side but the less technically oriented (or maybe savvy) channels just transmit as is and let the box deal with it. Which is crap, frankly and means you're caught between two compromises. I've stuck with upscaling everything to 1080i and living with a few peoples' heads looking a bit fat.
3. The BBC seems to be uncharacteristically reluctant to embrace HD. This is really odd as they're a technology friendly company. Just look at their websites, their kids on-line games, the interactive tv facilities and the iPlayer. So why have they only got one HD channel? They're really missing a trick as they have done some lovely HD shows in the past. But scouring the BBC HD for HD versions of their SD output is a ball-ache. Maybe they're just waiting for FreeSat HD to take off.

I'm sure some of these niggles are just teething troubles. Some of it will just take some getting used to. Some might get sorted out with new firmware. Some of it could just be a question of waiting for the other broadcasters to fall into line.

None of it detracts from the fact that HD is really what your telly was meant to do. For a TV geek like me it's just what I've been waiting for.

So in sky world, between three and five means quarter past five. I get it now.

Grrrr Sky installer. I'm guessing "between 3 and 5" means "5".

Is still feeling ever so not well. Last time my throat felt like this i still smoked.

Returned from Goole feeling like a zombie. Maybe they spelled it incorrectly.

This Week's Music

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week

Artists

1. The Beatles
2. R.E.M.
3. Pixies
4. The Smashing Pumpkins
5. The The
6. Foo Fighters
7. Scissor Sisters
8. Soundgarden
9. Pearl Jam
10. Goldfrapp

Ok, think i've got the beating of this swine flu now... Ok, cold then.

About to start a presentation on qa. I pity my audience.

Have just experienced the future - a dyson airblade. Wow!

Proud owner of a folding camper. Very chuffed.

This week's music

So here are my Last.fm stats for this week

Artists

1. The Beatles
2. R.E.M.
3. Pixies
4. Pearl Jam
5. The Smashing Pumpkins
6. Soundgarden
7. Queens of the Stone Age
8. Foo Fighters
9. Helmet
10. The The

Just won a pair of iGrado headphones. Lucky, lucky me!