Paul Annett

I’ve just got back from a futile grocery shopping trip to Asda, where most of the shelves were either empty or containing their own-brand products (tinned, mostly under 10p each, and mostly unfit for animal consumption). I guess that’s my fault for choosing to spend my Friday evening sober in a large brightly lit warehouse instead of inebriated in a large barely lit one. Even the “atmospheric replenishment officers” (shelf stackers) are too busy on a Friday night to keep them suitably topped up.

Here in the UK, Asda (owned by Wal-Mart)is quite a down-market superstore by some people’s standards. Personally, I was brought up on Asda food because that was our local supermarket, but these days it’s much more convenient to get our groceries delivered free (orders over £60) by Sainsbury’s to You. Asda’s online shopping site doesn’t work on a Mac.

Bowling for Columbine is the latest DVD we were sent by the newly rebranded LOVEFiLM (formerly DVDs On Tap… but now why the lower-case ‘i’?). It amazed me that in the USA you can literally walk into a Wal-Mart superstore and buy a gun or any amount of live ammunition. How dumb is that? As our cousins across the water may say.

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EDIT: Just found somebody else having problems with Asda/Wal-Mart’s inability to stock anything useful, so I thought I’d be nice and link to her blog.

Sorry I haven’t posted in ages, but finally there’s something I can’t resist mentioning!

Some goit has gone and copied my website exactly but forgot to copy the style sheet so it looks crap! He started showing up in my stats so I tracked him down, but never heard back from him.

Inspired by the likes of Jason Kottke and Tom Coates, I am now under the delusion that my social and informative comment may in turn become an inspiration to some poor soul. Therefore, with the imminent re-launch of my Nice website (and hence this weblog), I once again commit to posting more frequently.

For now I shall keep this post short and say that I had an enjoyable Christmas and look forward to getting married to my lovely fianceé in the summer.

A few notable things which have happened since my last blog entry are the US’ capture of Saddam Hussein (though my comment on the war I shall withold, as there’s too much to say which would not make for pleasant reading), and the unfortunate demise of Bob Monkhouse, a very funny man.