Fun stuff

My favourite 404 error page

  • December 2, 2009 at 7:35 pm
  • Categories: Puerile,Sheep Dip

  • Bruce Lawson posted this tweet: Another bloody list of sexy 404 error pages http://bit.ly/8I4D3d that doesn’t include my custom 404 page from 2004 http://bit.ly/8D5oJe I say ‘favourite’ to make Bruce feel better, but it’s probably true anyway. Visit My favourite 404 error page

Do dogs really out-phrase cats?

  • November 19, 2009 at 11:41 pm
  • Categories: Puerile,Ramblings

  • Dogs Dog’s breakfast Dog’s dinner Dog’s life Dog days Dog tired Dog-gone Dog’s b@ll@**s Doggy style Cats Cat’s whiskers There must be more than that for cats. Help me redress the balance.

Halloween playlist

  • October 28, 2009 at 11:28 am
  • Categories: Fun stuff

  • I’ve set up a Spotify playlist for Halloween. Predictable I know, but fun. It’s collaborative (meaning you can add to it yourself, if you have a Spotify account). So go on, add some songs to our Halloween playlist and get other people to as well.

Commandeering Birmingham’s market stalls for a game of table-tennis

  • June 15, 2009 at 6:12 pm
  • Categories: Birmingham,Fun stuff,Ramblings

  • A few weeks ago Nikki Pugh and I were walking through the empty market stalls in Birmingham, and were struck by how much they resembled table-tennis tables. What a waste, we thought. Yesterday we put that right. Nikki and Charlie, who facilitate the BARG events, organised a bunch of us to meet at the vegetable market [...]

Digpuss shop now open for window-shopping

  • June 7, 2009 at 8:22 pm
  • Categories: Birmingham,Fun stuff,Ramblings

  • Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a little girl and her name was Nicky. And she had a shop. Actually that’s not quite true: Nicky doesn’t actually have a shop. What she does have is a website, a Flickr account and a load of junk. It was rather an unsual shop [...]

Museums at Night 2009

  • May 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm
  • Categories: Culture,Events,Fun stuff

  • Museums at Night 2009 will bring together museums, galleries and heritage sites with a range of special evening events. I promised to plug this, so here goes. Over the weekend of 15, 16 and 17 May, museums across the country will be running a range of fun events in the evening. There will be ‘tours [...]