I'm recovering, gradually - in fact, I was expecting to be more exhausted today having walked more than ten miles yesterday. Had it not been for "The Wrong Step", I would probably be feeling pretty damn good about now, and not be taking tomorrow off to recuperate. Thankfully, no equipment was damaged beyond a scraped casing (yup, the new smartphone ( Read more... )

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I'm really pleased to see that Londoners have come forward to start to reclaim their streets as "Riotwombles". In almost the same breath, I'm deeply saddened by the pathetic excuses, the apologists crying "unemployment", "lack of social mobility", "the widening gap between rich and poor", and "the police don't care 'cos we is black"...

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Thursday: BBC NEWS: Man dead and police officer hurt in Tottenham shooting.

Today: BBC NEWS: London riots: Dozens injured after Tottenham violence.

If the police do anything in situations like this, they're denounced as being "heavy-handed". If they show restraint, that means they "don't support this community" or "just want to stand back and ( Read more... )

Fuck.

No, I'm sorry, I apologise - that should read:

...fuck.

I'd finished TDD-504 Chapter 1, and was making in-roads into Chapter 2 when *plink* a lightning strike nearby cut our power for about a minute - long enough for the damage to be done. All today's work gone - just like that ( Read more... )