If I ever have to be delayed in an airport lounge for any length of time I hope it is Paris and I hope Nouvelle Vague are stuck there with me. I don’t know if this is all an elaborate set-up or a spontaneous happening and I don’t care too much; the effect is the […]
Entries from December 13th, 2010
Upgrade time again
December 9th, 2010 · Comments Off on Upgrade time again · Technology
I think I shall upgrade WordPress before turning in. Just saying. It will explain why everything looks strange, if everything looks strange.
Tags: Wordpress
Three cheers for (some of) the Lib Dems
December 9th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Politics
Faced with a choice to sell out or cop out, these 21 Lib Dem MPs opted to stand out and vote the way they said they would before the election. They are still Lib Dems, but at least they have escaped with a bit of dignity and integrity. The other 36 didn’t and deserve what […]
Tags: Education
Liberal-baiting
December 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
I don’t know if Brian Gardner of Pound Hill is a real person or just a name the Crawley News made up as part of an attempt to bait liberals (with a small l). It would appear that there was a story in last week’s paper where somebody said they were gay but they don’t […]
Tags: Gay/Lesbian·Local Papers
Oh dear Piers
December 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
I know it is old news, but only just heard about George Osborne allegedly getting voice coaching to sound less posh and weedy from a radio show on Saturday that I just listened to as a podcast. If it is true (and the story is in the Daily Mail which immediately makes it a bit […]
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Biocity Crawley hospital study
December 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
The local papers report that the study into a new hospital has been released. They do not provide a link to it but it can be found here. Interesting stuff once you look beyond the frequent spelling mistakes/typos, normal consultant-speak, and heaps of case-study padding. I almost gave up at page 18 when I came […]
Tags: Crawley Hospital
Worthy of comment
December 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
File this under ‘no shit Sherlock’ but a ReadWriteWeb has a story about a study into what makes people comment on the internet. Apparently… people who comment online are often motivated by emotions, and negative emotions at that. Furthermore, the longer online discussions last, the more likely they are to turn increasingly negative, and in […]
Tags: Internet
The million pound MP
December 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off on The million pound MP · Uncategorized
I was slightly amused to read about the man being called Britain’s first million pound MP, so called because the Tories spent £1.3million on the election in Scotland where they only won a single seat. The SNP spent £315k and won 6 seats and the Lib Dems spent £470k and won 11 seats, and here […]
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Just like the 80’s
December 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Just like the 80’s · Life, Politics
I have mixed feelings about the 80s. I know that dreadful things happened and the seeds were sown for a lot of today’s problems but personally I really enjoyed that time.  I was lucky enough to be in what turned out to be a secure job that paid OK, I had no health problems and […]
Horse rescued from tree
December 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Horse rescued from tree · Life
It is one of those headlines that promises so much and delivers so little. When I saw the headline “Horse rescued from tree” pop up in my RSS feed I just had to go to the story. It turns out that the horse was tangled up in a tree stump and was not dangling in […]
Tags: Local Papers
