Saturday is going to be... interesting.

First off the 2nd Battalion of the Mercian regiment, who are marching. Our soldiers are courageous and deserve support for having to fight with limited resources a war in hostile terrain against opponents who show considerable tenacity. The fact that six months of our petrol money for it could rebuild ( Read more... )

Protests at the proposed Digital Economy Bill are rising. If you want to join in then go to the petition here.

HMG has a wonderful knack for data mismanagement. I'm sure Mandelson going to Corfu with David Geffen had nothing to do with this. And was it me or did the last time Mandy had dinner with a wealthy businessman, wasn't there some ( Read more... )

The Cloud - an observation/information deck made out of bubbles.

Coming to a London near you?

Wow.  You go away for one week and whaddya know...

Kezey Kibris (North Cyprus) was lovely.  Sun, sea, food (whoof the food!) and family.  absintheskiss  has already posted on why we're not going to live there for some time yet.  I'm still trying to work out why both parents have decided to live near mountains, opposite gardens with polytunnel farms, only ( Read more... )

Attention X-7shoppers!  Unless I'm given a compelling reason not to, we resume Monday!  Please note this in your calendars.

I'd like to propose the concept of news mashup.  Take two stories with a common theme (say, pirates) and then come up with some way of bringing them together.  I see this as the mass media equivalent of the large hadron ( Read more... )

So it's been snowing.  I think it's been quite telling that it resulted in chaos in some areas.  For some reason we're surprised that snow occurs, just like we're surprised when there's floods, just like we're surprised there's high winds.  Arguments for infrequency do not apply because this happens nearly every year.  Extreme weather requires to ( Read more... )

That was another week.

Watching a neighbours cat chase an insect through the long grass this morning made me wish I'd got a digital camera on standby because the interplay was truly comic in the sense of early Tom & Jerry chase scenes.  Not helped by this cat being black, grey and white.  Amusing but this will be gone soon alas.  For with February ( Read more... )

And this is why I'm working on escape.

Though not as fast as I like, obviously.

Oliver Postgate RIP.
Kathy Staff RIP.

QOTD for those who are tired of Xmas shopping.

"Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's ( Read more... )

Have put together a retro rock/blues/punk playlist on Finetune which is good and I feel the need to share; it's got bits of Supernatural with more eclectic stuff in it.  Roads Less Travelled.  Tell me what you think...

Ate way too much teppanyaki too late last night so taking today easy.

Quantum of Solace was excellent.  A bit unusual for a Bond film ( Read more... )