The (what I suppose must be called a) poem below, started writing itself in my head while I was walking to work a few days ago. The first phrase in particular appeared in my head, but with a strong implication of something coming along behind it. I've not edited it, though some of it niggles a little (the gender non-neutral language just seemed to ( Read more... )

So, a job for all you Games Workshop fanboys with a degree in English, GW are after an assistant games developer ( Read more... )

So, I was researching teaching jobs in Canada, discovered that many states require Canadian citizenship in order for you to register as a teacher, so I idly looked into the requirements, and on examination discovered that I am, in fact, a Canadian citizen already. My mum, having been born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, passed on the citizenship to me and ( Read more... )

I made chicken tikka today, it was yummy and barbecued and actually tasted like chicken tikka. Was rather messy though.

That's the only explanation for why I've spent most of the last 9 hours setting up my desktop machine to triple-boot Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, Windows XP Home and Windows 7 RC and enjoyed every minute of it. Most enjoyable day I've had in quite a while ( Read more... )

So, Chris Woodhead (notoriously moronic former head of Ofsted who, had he done today what he did when he was a teacher would have been struck off by the GTC and possibly imprisoned) has MND and is claiming this as justification for "life isn't fair" and writing off 60% of the population to secondary moderns ( Read more... )

This morning, in the absense of a dawn service at church, I climbed the hills opposite our house in search of the sunrise ( Read more... )

Loved Sanday. Didn't get the job. Feel shit.

More than a few pro-Israel commentators highlight the disproportionate coverage and debate about Israeli atrocities compared to others around the world, and some have explicitly attributed this to anti-semitism. Playing around with the idea in my mind leads me to the conclusion that (part of) the cause IS a form of racism, but in Israel's favour ( Read more... )

I was thinking this morning that alternate history of the big kind has been done to death. What if the allies lost WW2, what if the Roman Empire didn't fall etc. What intrigued me was a line in a children's history book a few years ago that mentioned that Arthur Scargill had been talking to libya about acquring weapons during the miners' strike. So ( Read more... )