Right. So as an early Christmas present to me (and cos my laptop is going the way of the dinosaurs - slow, clunky and apt to freeze) I have bought one of these. Now, given that this isn't exactly the most powerful machine in the universe and because one of the reasons I got it was for speed + portability, I don't want to slow it down by installing ( Read more... )

Orwell prize winning blogging police detective, Night Jack, has recently been disciplined.

This caught my attention. Apparently, the judge in the case has ruled that the blogging police officer does not have a right to anonymity and the blog has been taken off the nets.

Great. Well done. So not only are we unable to read something which appears to ( Read more... )

I sometimes put song lyrics on my status on MSN. And a while back I used a Jarvis Cocker one "I'm not deep, but I am profoundly shallow". Today I found a little comment on this, from my Mum, who has not heard the new Jarvis album and therefore does not recognise this ( Read more... )

Yes, I am babysitting the theatre and its constituent actors today. So I poke the internets.

I saw this video of a man saving some vertiginously challenged ducklings on the Beeb website and thought, "hey, I've seen this before." Which I had. Because the same bloke did the same thing last year when the ducks were similarly stuck on a ledge.

Urban duck ( Read more... )

This morning, for no especial reason, I was thinking about Touche Turtle. Yes, my brain is odd. I came to the conclusion that the name had been chosen because it sounded good, not because it was a particularly good concept, although I guess if you want to muck around with fencing, having a shell to hide in is not a bad idea.

From thence, I went on ( Read more... )

As some of you might know, part of my job involves IT support. I'm generally ok with hardware stuff and can ensure cables are plugged in and whatnot, I'm pretty good with a lot of Office software and can make Excel do a little dance every now and then, should the whimsy take me. I can turn any number of devices off and then on again after wating a ( Read more... )

Makes me smile

So, poking around the internet, as you do. And wandered past a website for The Bondage Awards (SFW, unless they can see the text!) which was, unlike a lot of SM-type websites, actually nice to look at, with design that didn't make my eyes dry up and fall out. I clickied around and saw some lovely comic-book style artwork in the "Voting" section, ( Read more... )

On the "ln the Spotlight This Week" section of LJs front page is a community about people who offer lifts to dogs. I think. It's hard to tell. The first sentence of the description reads as follows:

"If animals had opposable thumbs, they could drive themselves to safety."

My mind is boggling in a number of different ways. Not least about the notion ( Read more... )

I subscribe to a number of feeds on language useage, because I am a word-nerd, but they often throw up a lot of interesting thoughts on life and the universe. Like this little gem on the use of the phrase "freedom of choice" in a recent ad campaign by Krispy Kreme

Why anti-abortion campaigners hate free doughnuts