I learned that sometimes a government IT project does come up with a real improvement. Our car tax runs out tomorrow and I have been sitting on the reminder for weeks. Having left it to the last minute I decided to try the online renewal instead of queueing at a Post Office. I just went […]
Entries from September 30th, 2006
The Captain and The Kid
September 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Music
I had several birthday gifts which were more welcome than the nearly-dead mouse which the cat brought in, and one of them was The Captain and The Kid, the new CD by Elton John. I had not heard any of it all, and have still only listened to it once, but straight away it just […]
Tags: Reviews
Just what I always wanted…
September 29th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Life
How does the cat know? Since it is past midnight, this is now officially my birthday, so the cat has just come in and presented me with a dead mouse. I have had to throw him out and lock the cat-flap so he does not bring it back in again after I have gone to […]
Tags: Animals·Pets·Serial Killers
Police activity
September 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Police activity · Life
I was a bit later home than normal yesterday, having gone for a quick drink after work with a colleague who is leaving this week. When I got back to Broadfield there were three police cars parked by the Tollgate Hill roundabout on the A264 , another couple parked at the top of Tollgate Hill, […]
Tags: Broadfield·Police·WTF
What I learned today
September 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on What I learned today · Life
This building is probably my favourite new building in London, and now that it is nearly complete all the scaffolding has come off and it can be seen properly at last. Already a couple of floors in the middle look to be occupied, as I can see from the window of my morning train. It […]
What I learned yesterday
September 28th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
As we had a briefing for the management team, I learned a lot of things about our financial prospects and expected project milestones which is all confidential to our company or our partners, so I'm not going to repeat it here. At the same meeting I also learned that the company is, yet again, going […]
Tags: WILT
Crawley Campaign Against Racism
September 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Crawley Campaign Against Racism · Life
On Saturday the family made its annual visit to Maidenbower for the Crawley Campaign Against Racism's International Party. This year is the 30th anniversary of the organisation, and I suppose it has to be counted as a success. A couple of speakers referred to the fact that Crawley has well-integrated ethnic minorities with no ghettos […]
Tags: BNP·Maidenbower
What I learned today
September 26th, 2006 · Comments Off on What I learned today · Life
Even if we don’t realise it, we do learn something every day. Granted we may only be learning triva somedays. Maybe we need to train ourselves to recognise when we are learning something. I am always surprised if I ask the kids in the evening what they learned at school and they say “nothing”. Anyway, […]
Nerdvana
September 26th, 2006 · Comments Off on Nerdvana · Technology
With apologies to Scott Adams who coined the word. This evening I have been surrounded by computers. There are three in the living room, all plugged in and wirelessly connected, and a fourth which is being cannibalised. I took the wireless card from the oldest computer to put into the newest one, got it connected […]
Tags: Computing
Keeping it green?
September 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Saturday’s Guardian had a 100-page ‘green living guide’, stuffed full of information and guidance on how to tread lightly on the planet. I can’t help thinking that the message was a little undermined by the sheer size of the Saturday paper, with 166 ‘Berliner’ pages spread across 8 sections, a glossy colour magazine, 100 pages […]
Tags: Doh!·Global Warming·Newspapers