On Sunday we (me, Jayne, Chrystal and Charlie) went up to Essex to see an American football game. We are not mad sports fans, it is just that Frankie has started playing for Sussex Thunder, they were playing an away game in Billericay, and my family live up there so there were several birds to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
Sussex Thunder vs Essex Spartans
May 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Life
Tags: American football·Essex·Sport
Rebekah Brooks is innocent!
May 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
Like anybody else she is innocent until proven guilty – a cornerstone of our justice system that her newspapers and other similar papers seem to forget. The way I see it, either she did it in which case she deserves everything she gets, or she didn’t, in which case she might think back to how [...]
Tags: Newspapers
Apocalypse Cow
May 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
I just finished reading Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan. It was another advance proof copy (and we all now how much I love reading advance proof copies) from Amazon’s Vine programme. For a change this is one I probably would have bought if I had seen it on sale: how could I resist such a [...]
Just Testing 2
May 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
Well – the WordPress plugin which was cross-posting stuff to Facebook stopped working. Apparently it was withdrawn by the author. I found an alternative (WPBook Lite foranybody who is interested) which seems to work but involves creating an app on Facebook. All a bit complicated but it looks like it is working OK so I [...]
Tags: testing
Just testing 1
May 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
It appears to have worked, despite me not really understanding what I have done. I’ll count that as a success.
Tags: testing
Pit of Despair
May 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
In the book I just finished reading there was a brief reference to some experiments that Harry Harlow did in the 1950s in America. I had never heard of these experiments before and I had not heard of Harry Harlow before but he sounded like a grade A bastard even by the standards of the [...]
Tags: Science
The Righteous Mind
May 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
I recently finished reading a book by Jonathan Haidt called The Righteous Mind -Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion and thoroughly enjoyed it even though it was uncomfortable reading at times as it challenged and chipped away at some of my core beliefs. It has the potential to be a life-changing book. [...]
Daytripping
April 26th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Life, Work
Wednesday was a bit of a long day. I found myself booked on a one-day course that was 100% mandatory In Glasgow And I decided to do it as a day trip. My four colleagues went up Tuesday afternoon, but I figured that since I live right next to the airport it was feasible to [...]
70s Mania
April 17th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music, Politics
For all its faults, I enjoyed the first part of Dominic Sandbrook’s series on the 70s. So many memories, even though I was only between 8 and 10 during the time covered in that episode, and I’m really looking forward to the rest. If anybody else is similarly hooked I can recommend Sanbrook’s book State [...]
Tags: Nostalgia
The way we were
April 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
While I was sorting out some old books to get rid of recently (I only managed to force myself to get rid of about a dozen or so) I came across an old business card of mine that had been used as a bookmark. To be honest, most of my business cards from that, or [...]
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