Here’s a little Thursday meme, spotted over at Dina’s.
3x Thursday: From your point of view, name 3 things that are wrong with this world and how you might go about fixing them.
From my point of view, eh? It might be more interesting to ask, from the point of view a Chechen separatist huddled over a […]
Merry Christmas!
Ok, I know it’s Boxing Day so I am a bit late in my Christmas wishes. But my domain has been intermittently disappearing from this world, due to DNS troubles at my hosts. It was down pretty much all day yesterday, but I suppose I can give the support team Christmas Day off; being […]
When I got home from work today, there was a letter from NPower (my electricity supplier) waiting for me. It was addressed like this:
So they spell my surname wrong, they imply that I may be thrown out of my home and they reckon that I live in a jobcentre! Way to go NPower.
Now, how do […]
Listen to I’m sorry I haven’t a clue on Radio 4 tonight at 6:30pm GMT. It was recorded yesterday evening at the Harrogate International Centre, and I was there! A careful listener may be able to pick out my tears of laughter from the amongst the audience’s roaring good humour. An excellent evening.
I was quite excited to see a story on the BBC about the discovery of some 700,000 year old flint tools on a site in Britain. I thought, wow, we’ve been on this beautiful island for at least 700,000 years!
Then I realised that, whilst neothilic man was skinning a water vole down in Suffolk, the […]
I see that the Guardian is also now reporting about an asteroid that might actually hit the Earth in 2036. There is currently thought to be a 1 in 5500 chance of it hitting. The asteroid is by no means big enough to cause any mass extinctions, however it is big enough for things to […]
I mentioned earlier that I was thinking of buying a Mac Mini. Well, last week, I bit the bullet and ordered one from the Apple store. I went for the 1.5GHz model with 1Gb of RAM. It arrived on Monday, delivered to my workplace as I wouldn’t be in at home to sign for it. […]