Do Not Adjust Your Settings

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Listening to: Jackson 5 - Looking Thru the Windows

Greetings y'all. I've been experiencing a few tech-gremlins with regard to this site of late. Normally, all is well when viewed using the Firefox browser, by far the finest out there if you ask me. It's absolutely free, so there's no excuse not to get it right now.
Internet Explorer
on the other hand throws up all kinds of silliness; cuts the outside edges off the header so that it reads ONIC BLO, and puts almost every word on the sidebar onto a separate line, thereby urinating all over the effortlessly elegant layout I've spent hours and hours of my life messing around with.
Result: Aesthetic Anarchy. And not in the good sense.
So I've decided that it's high time I got right in there and made a few fundamental changes. Now, given that this site was Born of Blogger, you'd expect things to be relatively straightforward when it comes to tweaking away under the bonnet. Not so, Pop-kids. It's a right royal headache so it is.
Therefore, instead of closing down and putting a Site Under Construction-type notice up for a while, I'll simply nip/tuck, see what transpires and publish the result anyway. So be prepared for some (possibly) interesting variations on a theme.
Ok, I'm going in.......


Phase 2

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Listening to: Tony Hancock - Sunday Afternoon at Home
So I eventually got the hang of dirt-digging for grown-ups. Thing was, I then needed a way to flatten the result, in a manner not achievable by jumping up and down in wellies.
Yes kids, there are times when only a steamroller will do. This was one such occasion. One flick through the Yellow Pages, one phonecall, one more episode of Maury, et voila.

Has to be said, I'm not really cut out for this kind of thing, but it will mean that I can park the Sonic Chariot without dirt flying hither and thither, so hopefully it'll all be worth it.
Next step, tarmac. I'll probably need an adult to help me with this part.
Stay near a radio/TV. I may yet end up on national news.


Dig Your Own Hole

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Listening to - Idiots on TV shouting

Welcome to the week Blog-Children. This was the scene outside Chéz Sonique an hour or so ago. I'm currently involved in a little landscape gardening, if you will, and have hired the appropriate tools for the job.
Saves a lot of time, but it's a killer to get the hang of driving.
Matters aren't helped any by the ongoing (4 days and counting) rainfall either. Still, I'm taking advantage of the weather-related downtime and doing something useful. I'm watching Maury on TV. Another half-hour of idiot-family revelations and paternity results then I'm straight back to work. Weather permitting.


Modern Mysteries #1

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Listening to: Black Sabbath - Wheels of Confusion
Mysteries I cannot fathom, people. Help needed. Firstly, Facebook and it's apparent world takeover.
Now, I myself do have a Facebook account, but in all honesty it's main function is to draw attention to my Myspace activities and play a little pretend-money Poker. Apart from that I find it to be the intensely annoying. The sheer volume of chain-emails, invitations from zombies/vampires/pirates and requests for hugs/kisses/teddy-bears/virtual drinks is nothing short of brutal. It also tells you each time you log-on what everybody in your Friends-List has been doing since last you looked. In quite overwhelming detail. Then invites you to take a look at all of it. It's also full of bugs which it's developers seem in no hurry to sort out.
One good aspect of Facebook however, is that it's forced Myspace to get it's act together somewhat.

EMI:
The planet's (soon-to-be ex-) biggest record label, as I'm sure y'all know by now, has been taken over by private equity company Terra Firma with less then hilarious consequences for much of it's workforce and music-making roster.
Hip hop icon Robbie Williams, his head full of righteous rage, has issued an impassioned call-to-arms, and is apparently limo-ing his way over to EMI HQ as I type. MC Rob's back-up comes in the form of label-mates Coldplay, Agnostic Front, Sigur Ros, Susie Quatro, Bubba Sparxxx and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir, all intent on busting a few corporate heads.
How did it come to this pop-kids? EMI own the back-cats of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Queen, The Spice Girls and Add N to X for god's sake.
Stay tuned.


Life in focus

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Listening to: Flykiller - Fear (Sonic Avenger remix)

Ok, so a couple of weeks into the Nu-year, and it's starting to feel pretty good.
I'm now 14 days into a (hopefully) month-long no-alcohol stint and I have say, life has taken on a slightly sharper edge. Thing is, I'm not sure I want to see life in this much detail.
Dammit though, there's only so much water a man can drink. Come 6.00pm I need a glass of something red and inviting with my evening repast and Vimto, I'm afraid, just doesn't cut it. And yes, I have tried it.
I also tried cranberry-juice-as-vino-substituto, and it was ok, but found that I then had to get up 5 times in the night to pee. Yes kids, it apparently purges male nether-regions as well as cleansing female ones...(look it up!).
I've decided that February 2nd is when I shall next taste the Devil's own brew. Until then every hi-definition day just merges with the next. I'm secretly hoping that someone, somewhere is arranging an award of some kind in my honour for that particular day.
Is that so much to expect?


2008: Day 1 - So far so good

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Listening to: Radiohead - In Rainbows


Happy New Year
funkateers everywhere.
Yes it's true: I'm not dead. Massive unforgiveable gap 'twixt my last postcard from the edge and this I know, and I won't bore y'all with the details as to why. But I'm back in the Blogosphere, make no mistake.
Suffice it to say that I have numerous Nu-Year resolutions for 2008, and one of 'em involves blogging. In fact, make that two. 'Nuff said - Let's just take it from here.
A plethora of classy Christmas gifts this year for Yours Truly it must be said. One of these was the complete set of Curb Your Enthusiasm DVDs, series 1-5, which I've just made a start on this evening. Doesn't get much better than this.
Yep, life is good pop-kids.
Let us go forward into the unknown together. You know you want to.
Peace, out.
Onward™....


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