This morning I had an e-mail from PeopleBank, which must be one of the many agencies, companies and organisations I signed up to while looking for another job closer to home. This mail was to tell me about the new Employment Equality (Age) Regulations now in force and what it all means. Basically it said […]
Entries from October 2nd, 2006
Age discrimination
October 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Age discrimination · Life, Politics
Tags: Labour Party·Trade Unions
What I learned today
October 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on What I learned today · Life
Thanks to a clue in the quick crossword in today’s Guardian, I learned that leprosy is also known as Hansen’s Disease. I also discovered that most of the things we all ‘know’ about leprosy are wrong.
Tags: Medicine/Health·WILT
Rodrigo y Gabriela on Youtube
October 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Rodrigo y Gabriela on Youtube · Music
When I went onto Youtube to try and find that OK Go video, I found that there are loads and loads of clips of Rodrigo y Gabriela. If anyone is still wondering why I keep going on and on about these two, just press play on this clip. Awesome is a much devalued word, but […]
Tags: YouTube
Best Video Ever?
October 2nd, 2006 · 2 Comments · Music
I have just seen a video on MTV by a band called OK go, which could well be one of the best videos ever made. Reminds me a bit of Jamiroquai's one with the moving floor, but its a lot funnier.
Tags: TV
The perils of lending books
October 2nd, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life, Work
When I mentioned The Planets by James Finney Boylan in a post about the film Silent Hill, it reminded me that I no longer own the book. As a rule I try not to lend books for the reason that they never seem to get returned. A few years ago I was trying to stop […]
