November 20, 2008 – 11:21
…last night. The phone rang, the display showing a mobile number. I picked it up and a mechanical voice started reading out gobbleygook. It sounded like random characters, no recognisable words (apart from what sounded like ‘troll’), with a great many “semi-colon”s and “zero”s.
I eventually worked out that somebody was text-messaging our [...]
November 19, 2008 – 21:14
Getting off Verapamil wasn’t so easy as it appeared. It’s thankfully gone now, but for the last three days, I had a continual headache; looking at various medical sites, it fitted all the signs of a Tension Headache - slightly stiff neck, runny nose, getting worse through the day. And I’ve been [...]
November 17, 2008 – 16:35
I’ve taken myself off the Verapamil tablets; six months is long enough to try it out, and it really wasn’t doing me a lot of good. The main problem was that it made me fuzzy-headed all the time; I couldn’t think very well and everything felt ‘flat’ and dull. It was the [...]
November 16, 2008 – 15:31
I have finally got Linux installed on the old laptop, and am now able to blog from anywhere in the house - at the moment, I am comfortably ensconced on the sofa.
Having all but given up on the idea, after having so many failures, I discovered Puppy Linux. This runs on [...]
November 12, 2008 – 16:06
OK, I’m a sucker for competitions. There’s one running at the mo to find the “coolest” Wordpress blog.
Irritatingly, the organisers don’t give any indication of what they regard as “cool”. So I can suppose that it’s all a matter of opinion and that this blog has as good a chance as any of [...]
Just been out to fill up a bucket of coal for the night. And the Moon is looking gorgeous - nearly full and high in the sky, surrounded by hazy clouds with a hint of a full-circle rainbow.
I tried to take a photo, but my camera is so crappy that all I got [...]
For me, the big event of the day was an exact astrological opposition between Uranus and Saturn. So I’ve avoided getting involved in any celestial pile-ups by spending my time at the pooter, struggling to get to grips with Joomla. My long-awaited Building Websites With Joomla 1.5 arrived last week, but I was [...]
Went to bed last night thinking that all i had to do today was get the Astrological Association Diary up to date and upload it.
This morning, on waking, I remembered that I still had to do the online version of Transit. Somehow, I’d completely forgotten that - hadn’t even started it. So today, I’ve [...]
The rain stopped this morning, for a brief time, and me & B took advantage and drove out into a nearby forest.
A couple of weeks ago, Son had been to a small outdoor rave there. It was a beautiful spot, he told us, by a loch, surrounded by forest. It sounded attractive, so [...]
I am bloody angry. We heat our house with coal. The coalman has just been for the fortnightly delivery, and the price of coal has gone up
From LJ Antitheism via BJSurvivor:
I am the LORD thy GOd and I give you these Ten Commandments:
1. I am He that brought you out of Egypt (like in the movie), You shall not returneth to Egypt, nor shall you think that the Pyramids are “cool,” “nifty,” or “symbolic.” That would [...]
Thought-provoking article in Wired.
Most counterterrorism policies fail, not because of tactical problems, but because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what motivates terrorists in the first place. If we’re ever going to defeat terrorism, we need to understand what drives people to become terrorists in the first place,,,,
,,,Terrorists, he writes, (1) attack civilians, a policy that [...]
September 29, 2008 – 09:48
There’s a website called Fundies Say The Darndest Things! devoted to recording the inane/insane stuff that religious fundamentalists come out with on t’interwebs. It’s a pity there isn’t an equivalent site for Global Warming Denialists, as this (from one of my elists) would be a fine candidate:
If a weatherman can’t get [...]
September 27, 2008 – 19:34
Yesterday, we went for a drive out in the the forest. Not far, just along the Old Edinburgh Road and around a few forest tracks.
Visiting a tiny loch, we spotted one of the new sculptural artworks that have been erected in this area - a tall conical spire of red sandstone blocks, built right [...]
September 25, 2008 – 19:15
Well, it’s been quiet lately around here. Getting on with the gardening, though I’m in danger of overdoing things. Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours battling the hugely overgrown honeysuckle in the front garden. I started with the naive belief that I would merely have to find a couple or three [...]
