... a bit Suffolk20 August 2002: | Unprecedentedly (if there is such a word, the spell check doesn't think there is) next month's Lunch Club venue has been changed.
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30 June 2002: | The Brundish Crown lunch club report has gained a pic.
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9 January 2002 | Former GLL KoTNs Darren Williamson has turned up again.
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19 November 2001 |
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7 September 2001 | Framlingham.com recently kindly offered that we could advertise on their site and that they now consistently get over a thousand hits a day. This has prompted us to start publishing our stats.
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4 August 2001 | Do those folks in the hut at Ipswich Bus Station know that it says 'Enquiries' outside? You'd think we'd know better after our last visit. This time NaTCH was studiously ignored by a deeply depressed fella with a beard who thought that making a phone call was more important than dealing with a customer - though this did not prevent him from excavating his mouth with a teaspoon. His equally miserable female colleague clearly thought having a nice chat with the drivers was more important than dealing with a customer. Why do we put up with such rudeness in this country? |
28 July 2001 | Tragedy! Ray Kent's, the Framlingham butcher, has closed after 26 years. A proper butchers where your bill was written on a slip of paper to be taken to the cash window where there was a box of sweets for the kids. It will be missed. |
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23 June 2001 | There are so many British actors in 'Pearl Harbor (sic)' because American actors wouldn't have turned up until the film was almost finished. :) |
10 June 2001 | Overheard in the London Fields Cafe, Hackney:
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29 May 2001 | It's Goons Night on Radio 2 tonight to celebrate their 50th anniversary. |
10 April 2001 | Another PoTM at Tannoy! (see 6 April) Simon Rae is leaving after 10 years to spend more time with the new wife and family and be a "Systems Analyst in the IT department of a relatively large haulage company". |
15 February 2001 | A new lunch club report and some new pics. |
21 December 2000 - Goodmans have lost another KoTNs. Tomorrow will be Simon Barker's last day as he is leaving for the smart card company Gemplus. Seems like only yesterday Tony Wilson left to then return! 02 December 2000 - Won't need this again!
07 October 2000 - If you read the credits for that wonderful film "The Commitments" you'll discover the "Avant-Garde-A Clue Band". 03 September 2000- Almost completed loading users' cali files. Just October and September to go.
26 June 2000 - Dob Diggins died this weekend. He was a pleasant old boy who had lived in Station Terrace for some fifty years. We often had a chat with him over the fence as he took a stroll up the terrace followed by his tabby cat Thomas. May he rest in peace.
18 April - There's a new page explaining more fully what the InTNaT crossover test interface does.
05 April - Australian IT have shut their Y2K page and the New Zealand government are about to shut theirs. All seems so long ago, eh? 28 March '00 - What to say? Ian Dury died yesterday aged 57. We were so lucky to see him just before Christmas. 15 March '00 - A day late but the Y2K section has moved to the archive here. (The government shut down their Y2K site ages ago - no doubt so they could spend the money on style consultants.)
09 March '00 - Sorry but we've been messing about with the web structure again. Various NaTKiT1 things have been moved into the new sub-section Support in anticipation of NClean being available soon.
10 February - If you are contemplating cross country skiing try a small country first. 26 January '00 To simplify the process we've written NClean which tidies up for you. NClean is being beta tested and will soon be available in Support.
04 January '00 - Still no problems reported for NaTKiT. 02 January '00 - No problems reported for NaTKiT so far. But then we suspect nothing will really start up again till tomorrow. 12:20am 01 January '00 - We've still got power, gas, water and the 'phones so it looks pretty good here. (A scanner has started to play up but Y2K? Probably not.)
09 May '99 - Turbosound took delivery of their third NaTKiT last week. B&W have recently bought two more NaTKiT to bring their total up to 20. B&W are easily our biggest user with Goodmans coming in second with 12 NaTKiTs, but if you take the TGi group as a whole they still just out rank B&W with a total of 22. | |
Overheard in The Station "So I said to the wife 'Do you have a vision of where you want the garden to be in four years time? ... because then we can work together to achieve it.'" 
He's working at the Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol! 
We've been doing some work on the software that makes the 
23 November 2000 - The cones aren't out yet but the Co-op has got those large jars of pickle in, so it's getting dangerously close.
The mail order company Choices Direct have polled their customers to determine the best 100 videos of the millennium. An interesting concept in itself as videos have been around for perhaps 2.5% of the last millennium? His NaTCHness was proud to observe that he hadn't seen any of the top three but was encouraged by Citizen Kane at 22, Cinema Paradiso at 62 and above Seven Samurai at 79 Mapp and Lucia! So there is intelligent life out there.
- The data file "nk_prod.dbf" generated by NaTKiT1 contains production reporting info and can get inconveniently large. If historical data is not needed then a simple fix is to delete it. Next time NaTKiT1 is run it will generate a new and empty file. 
Ryko have released on CD Jack Kerouac reading his novel "On the Road". Now there's one for all you beatniks out there. (Ryko have an impressive artist roster including Taj Mahal, John Prine, Loudon Wainwright, and Frank Zappa. But as so often their web site hasn't kept up with the catalogue. No sign of Truco & Zaperoko or the Wendy Carlos 4 CD boxed set that includes MIDI files and a "virtual analogue synthesizer"!) 
07 November '99 - In anticipation of a new label printer we are using up some old label stock. (It all saves the environment - using stuff instead of throwing it away. God that sounded pious! The real reason is it satisfies some parsimonious aspect of our souls.) The last 100 or so labels are samples of a "reusable" label. This means that in a year's time when you come to recycle the out of date issue discs the label will peel off easily. 
15 August '99 - In Red Dwarf Rimmer's CD collection consists solely of Hammond organ music. His Lordship would agree that this is a true vision of hell but he also recently visited the Mechanical Music Museum, Blacksmith Rd, Cotton, near Stowmarket, Suffolk. It was brilliant! All sorts of musical oddities plus early gramophones and even a Mighty Wurlitzer that comes up through a hole in the floor.
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