Will Tom Vesey stand?

Can we start a Tom Vesey For Parliament campaign? His weekly Bermuda Sun column is a beacon of sense, sanity and integrity amid the ignorance and bilious mud-slinging of the Bermuda Election campaign – and we sure could do with more forthright, plain speaking in the House. As always, his column on Friday cut through the crap. If you plan to vote on December 18, I urge you to read “The lie at the heart of the PLP’s campaign” first. As he says, don’t believe the hate-filled hype … 

Radioshift – TiVo for radio

If you’re like me and you love listening to stuff from the BBC, you will no doubt have been ticked off by the fact that (for copyright reasons) podcasts of popular shows have the music stripped out. Jonathan Ross is funny enough to stand alone without the music but it’s not quite the same. One way round it is by using the wonderful app Radioshift from Rogue Amoeba. Basically this works like a TiVo for radio – you can find stuff from all over the world, listen to it live or subscribe to have it downloaded to your computer. Then just click the “send to iTunes” icon and hey, presto – a full three hours of Wossy with the great music. Make sure you buy the full license, though (a deal at $32) – the demo version inserts a hissing background noise after 10 minutes.

 

New beginnings

Welcome to my new blog!

Am going to start re-blogging after almost two years silence. My last post on the old Caught In The Web blog was January 2006 (yikes, time flies when you’re being lazy). To be honest I just got too busy to continue it in blog format after the Bermuda Sun axed the column, and well, one thing didn’t lead to another and so I finally shut that space down last week.

Facebook has renewed my enthusiasm for sharing online so when I feel like sharing something, this is where it will be. Unlike CITW, this won’t be entirely tech-related – just stuff that catches my eye about music, football, movies, books, life, Bermuda – oh and maybe a bit of Mac stuff too. If you want to follow my random thoughts on Tumblr, go to giblog. You want real issue stuff, go check out Phil Wells, who is back blogging on A Limey In Bermuda after a hiatus just in time for the election.

So feel free to read on, let me know what you think – and please join in anytime you feel like it! 

 p.s. why “breezeblog”? well, shootin’ de breeze is a national pastime here in Bermuda and breezeblog seemed an appropriate play on breeze block, which is what everything seems to be built out of these days instead of the real Bermuda stuff.