Author Archives: jb

>Obi

Posted on 14 June, 2008 by jb

> “OBI” is one of a swath of DIY stores that have popped up in Germany in the last 15 years. They’re pretty much interchangeable – Hagebau has better plants, Hornbach’s pretty good on power tools, OBI doesn’t really stand … Continue reading →

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>Don’t ask me ….(about "The Economist")

Posted on 12 June, 2008 by jb

>Apart from flogging excellent t-shirts (and let’s face it – you can never have too many t-shirts, can you?) and being essential reading for anyone’s who’s vaguely interested in what makes the world tick, “The Economist” is the source of … Continue reading →

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>I’m very sorry about this…

Posted on 11 June, 2008 by jb

>A woman calls her boss one morning and tells him that she is staying home because she is not feeling well. “What’s the matter?” he asks. “I have a case of anal glaucoma,” she says in a weak voice. “What … Continue reading →

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>The Bathtub Curve

Posted on 10 June, 2008 by jb

>The Bathtub Curve is standard Risk Management stuff. You’ll find its applicability in almost every corner of life – a period of high incidence of error due to inexperience, a long period of low incidence stability, followed by a sharp … Continue reading →

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>Tunes for a Tuesday – 10 June 2008

Posted on 9 June, 2008 by jb

>Shawn Mullins – We Could Go And Start Again from 9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor Elliott Smith – First Timer from New Moon Peter Bjorn And John – Objects Of My Affection from Writer’s Block Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes from … Continue reading →

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>"You’ve got a RECORD PLAYER….?"

Posted on 6 June, 2008 by jb

>Seven year old Sophie from up the road dropped in yesterday to make sure we’re going to be at the Finals of the Regional Reading Contest on Saturday (for sure and I’ll be surprised if she doesn’t win by a … Continue reading →

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>Don’t ask me… (about Frau Einstein)

Posted on 5 June, 2008 by jb

>The lady who delivers the free papers around our way is really nice, but she definitely isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. Somewhere over the years, she picked up the name “Frau Einstein”. (From whom, I have absolutely NO … Continue reading →

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"A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun"

Posted on 5 June, 2008 by jb

Said Bo Diddley. Ellas Otha Bates created one of rock and roll’s bedrock rhythms. In its simplest form, the Bo Diddley beat can be counted out as a two-bar phrase: “One and two and three and four and one and … Continue reading →

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>Don’t ask me… (about Minttu)

Posted on 3 June, 2008 by jb

>The Finns are strange people. It must have something to do with living in the permafrost and endless nights for months at a time. And the language is something else, too. It belongs to the Finnish-Ugric family, which includes such … Continue reading →

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>Songs you have to work for

Posted on 29 May, 2008 by jb

>Some songs just turn up. Music blogs, Lastfm, whatever. Something’ll be playing in the background in a record store, you hear it, grab it and away you go. One more for the collection. There are some that’ll take you years … Continue reading →

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