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Slack times
Posted on September 9, 2010 | No CommentsWell I’m into another slack month. It’s not really funny any more. Not that it ever was. Still, I am cracking on with my plan. I have developed a module for Magento that allows store owners to export csv files with lists of what customer... -
When Wiki-Politics goes wrong…
Posted on July 14, 2010 | No Comments“Great Britain has a huge cat population. For most of their day they loll around on sofas, beds, walls etc. By changing existing Animal Protection legislation to allow all cats to be forced to spend just 1 hour per day on a government issued treadmill,... -
Updates…
Posted on July 13, 2010 | No CommentsWell, it’s been an interesting couple of months. Lots of work, tantalising work (which, for obvious reasons, never arrives) and now, in July, bugger all work. The heat has been knackering me too, but aircon is my new god. So rather than sit on my... -
A comment of mine on giving up smoking…
Posted on July 9, 2010 | No CommentsThis is a comment I’ve made on Charlotte Gore’s new post about giving up smoking… I’ve given up twice; yes, I know but that may well happen when you’ve smoked for 8+ years and have all the willpower of a particularly weak willed fruitfly. The first... -
Random Brit Conquers Space, stuns NASA
Posted on March 25, 2010 | No CommentsNow this makes me proud to be British(ish): http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100325/tod-brit-conquers-space-with-helium-ball-870a197.html Although I do expect he’ll be prosecuted for some ‘elf’n'safety violation which naturally will make me less proud… -
What I want from a government.
Posted on March 22, 2010 | No CommentsAll I want is a government that will leave me alone. A government that won’t seek to legislate or ‘nudge’ me about what I can or can’t put into my body, be it fat, salt, alcohol, cannabis or, frankly, cyanide. A government that will understand... -
Partisan-Electionitis
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsThis is one of my facebook comments about a chap who is a party member…. Spot on J**. D**** is increasingly succumbing to a disease known as partisan-electionitis. In this troubling condition, the sufferer starts by declaring an allegiance to a party but then swiftly... -
Sigh
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Commentshttp://www.lettersfromatory.com/2010/03/16/quote-of-the-day-547/#comment-18484 “Plane ticket to England – £70. Accommodation - £56. Abortion in a public clinic – £0. Relief after a procedure carried out in decent conditions – priceless.” - the Mastercard-mimicking advert from a feminist organisation in Poland, who have been accused of promoting ‘abortion tourism’ by... -
F’ing brilliant
Posted on March 2, 2010 | No CommentsI want this font so badly. I’d love to write to HMRC with it enclosing a cheque… http://www.fubiz.net/2010/02/26/effing-typeface/ -
Global Warming
Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Commentshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8542358.stm Wow. I’m so glad that we threw out all our incandescent lightbulbs because of global warming. If only I could see the end of my fingers in order to write a letter of gratitude to our great green saviour Milliband and his sacred Church of the...