As friends know I have a habit of whistling or singing the “Copacabana” by Barry Mannilow. I cant really explain where it came from and why i do it, but its been happening for about 4 years now.
Its kind of like the screen saver for my brain, hence when i am not doing anything it tends to be the thing that pops into my head. It is also something that happens when i am concentrating or am a little stressed, so it is pretty much taking over my live.

I have been having quite a stressful time recently as Leigh my girlfriend has finally convinced time that we can get the new kitchen we have been planning for the last 2 years. This though is not going according to plan and is causing daily high levels of stress, hence Barry is much more in my life…

I knew it got bad, when one of the guys that works for “Colin” asked me to do a posting on our test server for our community website. I couldn’t think of anything to post about, bearing in mind it is a test server, then along cam Barry again…

So while singing the wonderful (or not so) words to the “Copacabana” i re-wrote the first versus of the song in Colin’s favour, i called it the “Colincabana“:

His name was Colin, he was a developer
With yellow feathers in his hair and a dress cut down to there
He would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while he tried to be a star, James always played guitar!
Across a crowded floor, they worked from 9 till 5.30
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?

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Music and passion were always the fashion!

An if anybody is interested James is another developer that work in my team!

I was listening the the Chris Moyles show this morning when they started talking about people who you had a crush on when you were a kid and how they changed when they older (potentially not being as attractive as they once were).

Then they mentioned one of my "Crushes" from being a kid which was Wendy James from Transvision Vamp. Now to my knowledge I think they only released one album which was called "Velveteen", which for some reason over the years I have owned in CD, Tape and Vinyl (I think I still have the Vinyl somewhere at my Mum & Dads house.

Anyway the point is that I hadn’t thought about here for quite sometime (not in that way…). the last thing I had heard about he was that she was in New York doing some kind of Art thing or something. So I decided to look her up on Wikipedia. To my surprise I found out that she has recently formed a new band called Racine, to quote Wikipedia: (more…)

Q: What’s the difference between a bull and Simply Red?

A: The bull has the horns at the front and the arsehole at the back.

An article that I spotted this morning on TechCrunch, about how major artisits are starting to follow Radioheads lead of selling there music direct to the public rather than using the record industrys model. I first heard about this yesterday when I was listening to BBC Radio 1, where they were interviewing people who had just got the new Radiohead album, where people can pay what they wish for it. Surprisingly most people paid a reasonable amount for the album rather than being cheapskates. (more…)