Being amused by national stereotypes can be a bit of a minefield, and ethnic stereotypes even more so, but I do like it when I come across something that I had previously though was just a staple of bad impressionists. Today I had to call BT’s Glasgow call centre and spoke to a Scotish bloke […]
Entries from June 30th, 2011
The cat soap opera continues
June 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on The cat soap opera continues · Life
The story so far: After we moved house we found that there are a couple of big aggressive cats in the road who pick fights with our two (not very streetwise) cats. These cats got more and more aggressive to the point of following our cats through the cat flap into the house. At the […]
Tags: Pets
Burden of proof
June 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Burden of proof · Life
I finished the book I was reading this evening and even though it was just a first-person account of somebody’s years working at Google I had a good laugh right at the end. The reason is that it was an advance proof copy so not exactly the same as the version that will be on […]
Tags: Books
No comment
June 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on No comment · Technology
It turns out that I effectively turned off comments here when I upgraded WordPress the other day. I forgot that the captcha plug-in I use always screws up when I upgrade WordPress and I have to de-activate and re-activate it to make it all work again. I always forget. I expect I will forget next […]
Kindness of strangers
June 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
I have been having a bit of a frustrating time with WordPress lately. After not writing anything at all for ages – all my recent thoughts have been short enough to fit on Twitter or Facebook – I wrote a post today and when I hit ‘publish’ I did not get the normal message about […]
Tags: Wordpress
Religious hyperbole
June 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on Religious hyperbole · Life
The Brighton Argus had a story the other day about a school, or rather the chair of governors of a school, complaining about religious education not being a core subject – using words like ‘shock’, ‘horror’ and ‘outrage’. This being the Argus, he gets a right shoeing in the comments. This is my favourite: Christianity! […]
Glastonbury coverage
June 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on Glastonbury coverage · Life, Music
U2 were supposed to be the big name at this year’s Glastonbury, the BBC have a small army down there and have 4 TV channels at their disposal. So why was it not possible to watch the entire U2 set live without changing channels twice?
Tags: TV
A night on the town
June 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
On Saturday I made a rare visit to London. I realised that I have not been in central London for a long time: the last few times I was in London it was only Hammersmith for Sunday night comedy. It must be more than a year since I took a train into Victoria. What finally […]
Tags: Concerts·London·Spizzenergi
