Oh Well

General

I blame the management

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I am leaving it in place and unchanged, but I have changed my views on this considerably. As the story unfolded, I think it became clear that the officers on the ground were following direct orders, and did so with a clear belief that Jean Charles was an immediate threat to others. Further, the information […]

Camera Phone

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I recently gave up struggling with the tired keypad on my middle-aged Siemens S45 handset and upgraded from a) Vodafone, which seems to work everywhere except in our house to Virgin which seems to work and b) to a Nokia 6230i. The main thing I wanted was Bluetooth, because I wanted one of those cool […]

Get Some Good Stuff Free

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Well, for the price of a magazine, anyway. This month’s PCPlus, which incidentally is a load of tosh, so I will be recommending that the management cancels it, has a cover DVD with some excellent collectable software. These are FREE, licensed copies of: Riot is very useful if you are finding that waiting for the […]

Recycling – in praise of safety razors

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I don’t know why this particularly got to me, but I found it deeply offensive that each week I was throwing away a non biodegradable razor. tiny, tiny metal blades which will rust away in no time, bloody great big plastic handle which will still be in the landfill at the start of the next […]

Some Stuff

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Interesting article by by Ryan Shaun Baker of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute Carnegie Mellon University Sleep Quotient

And a good time was had by all…

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…at The Portico party. Thank you Chris, Alison and parents. We did have very tired children this afternoon on the way back though. For anyone who wants to know why I rushed back to search for Small’s Fimble. 🙂

Inexcusable

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Passengers said that a man – described as South Asian – ran on to a train. They said police chased him, he tripped, then they shot him. “They pushed him on to the floor and unloaded five shots into him. He’s dead,” witness Mark Whitby told the BBC. “He looked like a cornered fox. He […]

Our New MP

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Prior to the election I mentioned the replacement of our long-standing MP, Harry Barnes, with Natascha Engel, a ‘Blair babe’. Just as a recap, I have been to see what we are actually getting out of this person. Let’s see, Harry Barnes was a frequent rebel, his replacement never rebels, still, she hardly ever turns […]