At the moment I am reading Will Self’s latest novel The Book of Dave. I have been reading it for a long time now, because I am finding it hard work. Since I started reading it I must have read at least half a dozen other books and I am only about a third of […]
Entries from November 14th, 2006
Another search
November 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on Another search · Life
Another search I spotted today. Somebody from a West Sussex County Council IP address tried to search within this site for “renberence day” and then for “rememberence day”. I do hope that particular address belonged to one of their schools and not County Hall. Not that it is a good thing for pupils in our […]
Tags: Education·Language·Schooldays
Zabriskie Point
November 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on Zabriskie Point · Life
Looking at the visitor logs I saw that there were two searches from totally different ISPs in America within a few hours of each other today – “antonioni movie where house explodes steal airplane” and “zabriskie point exploding house”. Zabriskie Point is indeed the Antonioni movie where a student steals an airplane and a Frank […]
Tags: Films
What I learned today
November 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on What I learned today · Life
Two things: 1. There is an ‘Official Encyclopedia of the Cornish Pasty’ But this story does not say whether there are any unofficial ones. 2. Hong Kong island is now half as close to Kowloon as it used to be. A result of all the land reclamation for building, as featured in this morning’s paper. […]
Tags: WILT
Clouds
November 14th, 2006 · Comments Off on Clouds · Life
(Trying to re-create the missing posts with the same titles so that links from B4L work OK… good job I didn’t write anything long, profound or complicated today: just the usual cobblers.) This morning at the station there was a wonderful combination of low clouds and high winds so the clouds were absolutely racing across […]
Tags: Clouds
Just Desserts
November 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Technology
This is probably old hat now, but I only saw it today and it made me laugh. It is always good to see queue-jumpers getting their come-uppance! Watch out for the 4×4 – its the best bit. We have one of these rising bollards at Broadfield stadium as part of the Fastway system. If I […]
Tags: Broadfield·Buses·Fastway·Traffic
