….this morning on BBC News24, an Israeli settler woman who had just been removed from the Gaza. She was interviewed standing outside a bungalow, with all her furniture and possessions pile up both inside and outside. She was telling the interviewer how disgraceful it was that she had been given a house that was far […]
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A few months ago, I started a category on here of “Worst Website of the Week”. I come across so many horribly-designed websites that I thought I should start pointing out the worst examples, listing exactly what was wrong with them; in this I was following the example of Web pages That Suck, which does […]
…I’ve got to myself. For some reason (maybe to do with trying to come off the Ibroprufen?), I’ve been sleeping very badly for the last few nights. So I’ve been feeling tired, cranky and my arthritis has been giving me hell. So, this morning, when B & Son went off to Ayre to buy some […]
For Charlie Stross, who has just won a Hugo for one of his novels! (OK Charlie, is this enough…?)
I’ve spent hours and hours trying to make the Oakleaf Circle site work with PHP. And I’ve just not managed it. So I’ve given up for now and put up the HTML version. You should be able to see it here. If anybody knows of a free, simple, lightweight PHP-driven CMS that would be suitable […]
Only a few days to go to the Camp! I’m answering emails, sending out tickets, answering the phone, helping B get the caravan ready… And flopping with exhaustion and pain. I’m not up to all this physical activity any more. My body is wearing out – angina, arthritis, blood pressure….. Cleaning the carvan on Thursday […]
To the person in the Dept of Labor in Washington DC, who got to this site with the search term “crossword wigglesworth”: It’s probably too late now – you’ve either completed the crossword or thrown it away in disgust – but the cryptic crossword answer you were looking for is “Air Commodore Cecil George Wigglesworth”.
Hauling into Haslingden, Kicking sixty over The Grane, I’m singing along to the radio, He’s explaining what’s in the frame. Sheep like rocks on the hillside, The last leaves still turning flame, A flock of pigeons beat the sky – “Oh look!” – A kestrel hangs against the sun The world entire in its eye. […]
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You know, I always avoid prophesying beforehand. It is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place. – Winston Churchill And wouldn’t you know it, here come all the post-bombing “predictions”. All the “I posted on such-and-such that the UK would face a terrorist attack/disaster/massacre/emergency/news event this year!” idiots are coming out […]