The IRA have decommissioned its arms. But I have a question – exactly how does one destroy 3 tonnes of Semtex? Apart from the obvious and surely that big a bang would have been noticed?
Rude Britain
From Rude Britain, a book by Rob Bailey and Ed Hurst, here’s what they consider the top 10 rudest place names in Britain. The authoirs have listed 100 real places, taken photos of the the place signs and done some research into the origins of the name – whilst maintaining a well-honed sense of humour. […]
Shopping News
Yesterday I received my first order from ocado, the online supermarket. Looking through what I had received, I found that I’m obviously ignorant of what I actually buy when walking round a supermarket and do much of it out of habit. many of the sizes were just wrong, either too small (beans, oil) or too […]
Powers of Observation
On the train home, I usually sit in the same part, right at the front. At the station I get off, the exit to the station is opposite the front of the train and I just like getting straight off and on my way. As at Waterloo, the platform entrance is at the back of […]
Job Hunting
I’m currently looking for another job, which is interesting as I realise I have never had to do it properly before. The recent resolution of the long-running re-organisation in the company has been a catalyst in me taking a look at where I am. Given I have been in the same company for 14 years, […]
Young Ones meet Casualty
OK, slight worrying moment when I realised that Adrian Edmundson, who is fixed in my mind as an ‘alternative commedian’ from the Eighties, from The Young Ones, Bottom and the Comic Strip and other such progammes is playing a serious role on Holby City. I’m sure he’s done serious stuff over the last few years, […]
A week in Scotland
A lot of photos were taken last week; they’re all up on Flickr and also photoblogged with comments over on this blog. I found it easier to load them up to Flickr and then blog directly from there instead of loading up the images to the server direct, especially as I had little software on […]
Back
Finally back. Benbg outside for most of the day and working longer hours than usual means I’m really tired. Just marked over 2000 posts as read on the aggregator (no chance to catch up with those) and need to admin for the rest of the day.
Scotland Again
Well, I’m going to be in Scotland for the week. Unfortunately the hotel does not have conenction from the rooms. But the pub next door does! So guess where I may be spending a little of my time ;o) I’m here working (sort of) and will be blogging the rowing stuff over a the other […]
Broadcasting
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin gave an interview with WWL-AM, which can be found a HREF=”http://www.zen41771.zen.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/WWL-AM%20Interview%20Nagin.mp3″>here. He gives a passionate plea for help and slams into the different levels of government he sees as not helping; it ends with both Nagin and hte interview lost for words, sounding as if they are in tears. Even […]
London 2012 again
After the announcement that London had got the 2012 Olympics, a series of celebrations were planned. They never happened; we were bombed and things had to change. But today, there was a little get together in Trafalgar Square. Speeches by Ken Livingston, Tessa Jowell and Seb Coe were followed by Heather Small giving a live […]
Melting
We’ve had no airconditioning in the office all week; leading to them, for the first time, opening windows up on the 6th floor here. Fans have appeared but it’s been way too hot in a very hot week. We had a new chller put in the other week – I guess they are having some […]
Gratuitous Blonde Joke
The BBC are reporting that a lorry load of Hydrogen Peroxide crashed and exploded on the M25 in Middlesex. Reports that a group of blondes wearing short skirts and white stillettoes were busy heard to complain about getting the map upside down were dismissed by police. Sorry…sorry, it’s that kind of day.
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Sometimes, just sometimes, it would be good from companies to do just a little more cross-cultural research. What is going to attract me to a film that is apparently about underwear that can get aeouind on its own?
Autumn TV
It’sBank Holiday Weekend , whoch means the BBC/ITV are running previews for the autumn TV. And both are doing exactly the same thing, a 30 second montage of dramatic clips from the new programmes set to uplifting music. So whilst I’m greatful we do not get the US version of never ending trailers for weeks, […]
Six Feet Under
Dear 17674 American bloggers who have posted about the season finale of Six Feet Under. Stop – or at least mark your posts with big spoiler warning. Some of us who live in other countries haven’t seen it yet
A levels
It’s that time of year again – the release of the A level results. The media continue to spin two messages: – the exams are getting easier, the grades are being inflated, the pass rate massaged – don’t worry if you fial, they;re only exams and there are plenty of things you can do. The […]
Blogging and the Observer
The Observer have an ar ticle about bloggers from the emergency services. A mainly positive piece, there’s a little bit about how ‘dangerous’ blogging is with a reference to Jo Gordon’s sacking from Waterstone’s, but no reference to the fact he got another job pretty quickly, which included blogging. There’s a glaringly obvious error in […]
Tourism
I spent yesterday wandering round the Natural History Museum; obviously they have not yet cuaght up with prevailing trends in the US as evolution was the only thoery discussed throughout. It’s interesting seeing the different halls and stages in development of the museum. In the older section, it’s full of panoramas, stuffed animals displayed in […]
Evolutionary Design
I can’t help but notice the current education debate in the US regarding the teaching of evolutionary theory vs ‘intelligent design’; the first being development based primarily on small selection pressures with an element of randomisation and the second based on the premise that something, somewhere had a hand in guiding the development of life, […]