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RIP Alex “Hurricane” Higgins

Jamie — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:45:33 +0000

Gah, will my childhood heroes please stop dying?

One of my favourite snooker players, Alex Higgins, has died, aged 61…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/8852020.stm

I might have a Guinness in his honour.

RIP Jonathan “Joffa” Smith

Jamie — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:17:42 +0000

I know I’m late, I apologise. I’ve been at work, and have managed to find a few minutes free to talk about Joffa Smifff, one of my favourite ZX Spectrum programmers who sadly died over the weekend. One of his first projects, if not his very first, was “Pud Pud in Weird World” (normally shortened to “Pud Pud”). This was one of my favourite Spectrum games, mainly thanks to its theme of “In The Mood” reproduced on the Spectrum’s beeper, and the fact that the game would change the octave of every loop of the music, and also flash the border random colours. It didn’t seem much, but as a child, I loved it. And, I’m sure, if I had a Spectrum emulator installed on here, I’d be playing it right now.

Joffa also had a flickr account which I didn’t know until right now.

Mollie Sugden has died!

Jamie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:47:57 +0000

Hot on the heels of Michael Jackson’s cold, dead heels, I’m gutted to find that Mollie Sugden has gone to the great department store in the sky…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8129617.stm

I shall always remember her from “That’s My Boy” and the episode where she said “Oooh, titties” about 50 times.