Blocked By My Namesake
Yeah, it must be pretty intimidating for a Hollywood actor to know that there's a freelance .NET codemonkey up in Yorkshire who shares his name...
Celebrity
John Backus
John Warner Backus, the developer of Fortran, has died in Oregon, aged 82.
Wikipedia Entry
James Brown Is Dead (Really)
I had the great pleasure of watching half a James Brown set at the V98 festival at Leeds in August 1998. My original online journal entry for that day is here.
We had
William Bloke
It's always nice when your lifelong heroes turn out to be decent folk in real life. Today in York the one and only Billy Bragg was in Borders signing copies of his latest
Served By A Supermodel
I was just looking through a walletful of recent receipts and found this. I really should pay more attention to the people who serve us dinner...