From SchNews: “The push by the UK, France and Germany to refer Iran to the UN Security Council, while rooted in the language of diplomacy, is really nothing less than an act of war.” – Scott Ritter; former Chief UN Weapons-inspector in Iraq. Iran is the new Iraq. The reaction of the US and UK […]
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One of my favourite bloggers Orac has a post asking “Who Are Your Blogparents?”; in other words, who or what started you blogging? I can’t really point to any one person or blog that started me off. My first blogging experience was with the Open Diary, a sort of forerunner to LiveJournal. I joined in […]
…I’m not on broadband yet. Got all the equipment, I’m signed up for it. But it turns out that I need a cable or wireless router to connect me to the downstairs telephone line. And I haven’t got a money for it! Bah.
Me and drugs – whether legal or illegal – have never mixed happily. I seem to be way too sensitive to their myriad side-effects. Take the time some years ago when I was put on a powerful steroidal painkiller for problems with my ankles. “Has been known to cause mental disturbances in some individuals” went […]
…because I’m now on pay-per-minute dialup. Yup, I’ve finally bitten the bullet, waved by-by to AOL and signed up for broadband. Unfortunately, my spanking-new broadband modem won’t arrive until next Tuesday, so I’m on BT’s “how much a minute??!!??” dialup service until then. Hence the lack of posts. However, looking on the the bright side, […]
Work!! I’m busy – so I haven’t been able to write a proper post for days. Got to get Transit together, got to rebuild the Elfin Diaries site… So i can’t write about the marvelous autumn colours, or the peace now that Son is spending a few days away, or watching John & Pauline’s kitten […]
…Just had a call from Elfin Diaries Caroline. She says she keeps getting complaints from people that the website won’t load for them. I have been trying to tell her for months that the Erol shopping-cart software that the site runs on is rubbish – full of depreciated tags, frames and buggy Javascript. So it’s […]
“If people re-associate with the world of work, suddenly they come alive again. Work will overcome depression and stress a lot more than people sitting at home watching daytime television.” – David Blunkett, Secretary of State, Department of Work & Pensions. While sitting down to a morning of Trisha might not help you out of […]
A random collection of other peoples’ blog entries, for your education and entertainment (and because I can’t be arsed to write a proper post): How To Fake Fingerprints Suggested Kit For Alien Abduction Victims Titan Rocks Share A Secret The Principles of Prognostication The Galloway Levellers Sex On TV Is It True That Time Has […]
“Last week 600 people were stopped and searched in Brighton under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, during the Labour Party Conference in Brighton. According to the Home Office, “Stop and search under Section 44 is an important tool in the on-going fight against terrorism” and that the use of the powers was “intelligence-led […]