A seriously influential DJ, sad to see him go.

For me he will always be associated with Pink Floyd and Wish You Were Here. Partly because when it came out he played it, side one & side two back to back on Radio One. In the days when the Radio One Play List was all naff singles and DJ’s talked over & faded in / out the 3 minutes they lasted to play a solid 45 mins of an album was amazing.

Also he “features” on the album. The title track starts with someone tuning around on a radio then playing along with what they hear. As they tune about we hear a snippet of one of Fluff’s famous classical jingles. Of course they could have just tuned through Radio 3 but for those of us who listened to The Rock Show on a Saturday Afternoon the reference was obvious. For some of us it was the only show we listened to. Peely was a bit weird (and on crap reception AM) and everything else was chart singles.

More Rush, more Zep, more Purple Fluff - not ‘arf

I had the fundamental rule “you mustn’t use goto’s” well drummed into me in my formative days but I was also programming in BASIC and assembler so I needed them (albeit in a strict structured format). I am therefore neither terrified by or delighted with them but I am still quite shocked to see them in “proper” code. I inherited some ‘C’ code the other day which had a raft of the beggars.

They were quite sensibly

I popped into my local music shop to buy a buy a ukulele (as you do) and the chappie said come back tomorrow as he had one but not in the shop. Back I went the next day but he was deep in conversation with a rep so I took the chance to browse round the nice guitars & ear wig. The gist of their chat was:
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In the spirit of accessible computing I’ve been being good & checking my App is easy to use without a mouse. This ofcourse means adding accelerators (the underlined letter that leaps you there with the Alt key). Missing accelerators are easy to miss(!) as they aren’t shown until you press the Alt key. They are normally specified in the code by adding an & - “&File”, “Save &As” etc.

When I added them to my labels I displayed

&Fred: [text box]

F&laming Nora: [text box]

The good old Today program had two “unrelated” articles this morning.

One was about employees appealing for less management speak - less “thinking outside the box”, “helicopter