On this interesting round-up of British blogs, the author comments that there don’t seem to be any bloggers who are actually putting the case for identity cards.
For the uninitiated, the UK Government has just brought forward a bill to introduce Identity Cards. These would initially be voluntary but eventually compulsory, and would incorporate some […]
This couple have to be worth an honourable mention in this year’s Darwin Awards. To quote from the article:
Two Star Wars fans are in a critical condition in hospital after apparently trying to make light sabres by filling fluorescent light tubes with petrol. A man, aged 20, and a girl of 17 are believed to […]
I was browsing through my excellent local record shop at the weekend, when I spotted a new record by Eliza Carthy: “Rough Music”. Unable to resist the lure of a new Eliza Carthy record, I promptly spent some of my overdraft on it (nice bank).
It really is very good. Assuming you like traditional music, […]
When I checked my blog at work today I noticed an oddity. One of the earlier posts contained a blockquoted paragraph. In Internet Explorer 6, the text within all subsequent paragraphs was displaced to the left by 7px - that is, by the same amount as the left-hand border width of the <blockquote>.
A bit of […]
Since getting a digital radio, I’ve discovered the joys of the BBC World Service. Before now, it was available to me only on the all but unlistenable AM. Now I can listen with pleasure to a crystal clear digital transmission.
Last night, I had it on in the background whilst wandering about the ‘net. Charlie […]
An insurance company, who shall remain nameless, sent me a letter today. The gist of their message was:
Hi Richard. As your thirtieth birthday is approaching, now is an appropriate time to think about getting old and dying. So how about some life insurance?
Thanks.
Aargh! My hosting isp’s nameservers died for a while this evening - meaning that I could not get to this, my new blog. Most mysteriously, my mobile phone decided it was going to spontaneously shut down at the same time. For a moment I wondered if someone were out to get me…
But then the phone […]
What would a blog be without some silly meme to pass the time? This is a musical meme spotted over at Neil’s World:
Total volume of music files on my computer: Zero mb. That’s right, there is not a single teeny-weeny music file on my computer. I am officially living in the stone age. Or perhaps […]
At the time when CCTV cameras started springing up everywhere, I thought their effectiveness was being overstated. After all, scrutiny from the cameras could be readily circumvented by the simple expedient of wearing a hat. It never occured to me that the response would then be to ban hats. How can you ban hats? They’re […]
Look carefully and a new blog can be seen emerging into the harsh glare of the internet. Welcome to lemongarden.co.uk. My name is Richard and I will be your host here. Thank you for reading.