Another story Jayne brought back from the community centre was much more heart-warming. A lady moved to Broadfield from another town some time ago. She had been worried because Broadfield does have a bit of a reputation, but having been led to expect something like Moss Side she found that the place is actually not […]
Entries from March 31st, 2006
Public spirit
March 31st, 2006 · Comments Off on Public spirit · Life
Tags: Broadfield·BYCC·Newspapers
Britain’s worst criminal?
March 31st, 2006 · Comments Off on Britain’s worst criminal? · Life
Jayne was in the community centre today and heard a great story about a recent crime there. A lady had left her handbag lying around and someone had gone through it and taken some car keys from it. A few days later the car was stolen and abandoned. Meanwhile a boy had been hanging around […]
Just like the old days
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Just like the old days · Technology, Work
Its a bit sad that I should take so much pleasure and pride over something so trivial, but I wrote a program today. I don’t think I have written a program from scratch for many years. It was not the most elegant bit of code (I don’t know all the syntax and had a lot […]
Tags: Computing
Mastermind
March 30th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Mastermind has done it again, and found someone who is a bit of a character for us to cheer on, although it doesn’t always take much to stand out from the crowd of civil servants and retired teachers on the programme. Last year it was the black bloke who managed to choose a different football […]
Tags: TV
Translations
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Translations · Life
I have seen a few dodgy translations in my time but this trumps them all. Next time I go out to eat I must order cancelled Sicilian just to see what it is!
Dry at last
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Dry at last · Work
I got so wet yesterday that its only now I am starting to feel properly dried out. I was returning to Waterloo from a meeting in Clerkenwell and took the first Thameslink train to Blackfriars. I could have waited for the next one on to London Bidge and then got another train from there to […]
Daylight savings?
March 27th, 2006 · Comments Off on Daylight savings? · Life, Technology
I don’t think I have properly recovered from the shock of getting up in the dark again this morning. This lark of changing the clocks twice a year is getting to be a bit of a burden. Just about everything in the house with batteries or a plug seems to need adjusting, although at least […]
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Religious education?
March 27th, 2006 · Comments Off on Religious education? · Politics
Unlike Antonia, I was shocked to read this piece in the Guardian today. I imagine she had already heard about the UK Life League and their tactics for terrorising schools and clinics, but up until this morning I thought this sort of thing only happened in America. On the way home this evening I came […]
Tags: Religion
Internet dependence
March 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology
My broadband connection disappeared today. I had logged on and left a comment on someone else’s blog, then gone off to do something. When I returned I had no signal at all. I did not worry about it too much as I had plenty of things I wanted to do, urgent important stuff like reading […]
Voblaizdupla update
March 26th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Technology
Since I wrote about voblaizdupla the other day, a couple of things have happened. Firstly the word voblaizdupla has shot to the top, by a large margin, of the search terms used to find this site. Secondly, Google now has some hits for this, including a link to a thread on the vnunet forums about […]