Retroblogging! Stuff I remember that’s worth telling the entire world.
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October 18, 2007 • 10:19 pm
Here I use the word ‘programming’ loosely. I am a hobbyist web developer, who is pretty good at XHTML and CSS (or I was the last time I checked, which hasn’t been for a while) and not too bad at PHP with MySQL. I have to look up the odd, rarely ever used, obscure MySQL [...]
August 17, 2007 • 10:16 pm
When I was little, we bought a guinea pig for my sister’s birthday. This guinea pig had rosettas in its fur, and my sister called these “Bonks”, and thus her name became Sally Bonkers. Sally lived with us for many years, longer than most of her peers. She died at the age of 9, and [...]
April 02, 2007 • 1:46 pm
My parents had a radio alarm clock that woke them up to the sounds of Radio 4 in the mornings. As I was growing up, my room was directly next to theirs, and I grew to both loathe and detest this disturbance at the beginnings of each day. I felt powerless to stop the onslaught [...]
June 29, 2006 • 8:11 am
Does anyone else remember all the way back to their French GCSE listening exam? I don’t remember the board, unfortunately, but I do recall that just before they got into all the questions, there was a woman saying,
You will now hear a short conversation, in Frunch, to introduce you to the Frunch voices.
Did anyone else [...]
March 16, 2006 • 11:07 pm
My Mum was talking about a song that my Grandma apparently used to sing. She doesn’t remember all the lyrics, but she does remember that the song begins “Oko boko, hit him on the boko” before continuing with something about “slitty eyes”.
I’ll try to get the full version for a future post, unless it turns [...]
February 23, 2006 • 8:40 am
When I was very small, there used to be a charity shop in Bath called Whoops!
I remember it well because it had a play area in it that I really appreciated as a child being dragged around boring shops.
Anyway, I also remember finding the name irredeemably hilarious, because it implied that the clothes had been [...]
March 31, 2005 • 12:34 pm
Well, I’m currently watching The Ring. (You know it’s actually a bad thing that I now watch the TV with a browser open (altho this is the first time I’ve done it) I think the internet is becoming part of me. Anyway.) It’s the proper Japanese version, mind you.
I’ve seen the American version before, so [...]