Is this the shortest cycle path in Crawley? I rarely ride my pushbike now, a combination of age, rust (the bike and me), and living on a sodding great hill, but when I do cycle it is facilities like this which keep me on the road instead where I don’t have to get off or […]
Entries from March 20th, 2007
Town Centre Development
March 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Town Centre Development · Life, Work
Fridays have got a little bit worse now. For a few weeks Jayne was working to the same hours as me – finishing at lunchtime on Fridays so we would go out for lunch and have a look around the shops, or pop into the Labour office to wrestle with the computers or stuff envelopes. […]
Tags: Town Planning
James Bond – 007 quid
March 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on James Bond – 007 quid · Life
Well nearly. While I was I Sainsbury’s this evening I picked up Casino Royale, released today, for £8.99. This is while places like Amazon and Play.com who are pushing it for £14.99. I do wonder how they can manage to sell it 40% cheaper than even the Internet sites. Are they really getting such a […]
New Theme
March 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology
I’m trying out a new theme, which does a lot of what I want, and seems to work OK in Firefox and Internet Explorer even after a bit of hacking about. Testing has been less than exhaustive though, so I would welcome any comments pointing out if anything is not working properly. I think its […]
Tags: Wordpress
How to enjoy Primeval
March 19th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Life
I found Primeval on ITV to be quite enjoyable, but only after employing some serious “willing suspension of disbelief” tactics. The secret is to not think about any of the following while watching it: The one-dimensional character of the Home Office bloke Why would the government, faced with a rash of unexplained physical events (like […]
Gordon Brown’s teeth
March 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politics
There has been plenty of comment about Gordon Brown’s teeth, mostly concentrating on whether it was right to go private instead of using an NHS dentist and whether the treatment was mainly medical or cosmetic. I don’t think enough has been made of the most important little detail of the whole thing – he had […]
Lucky lucky West Ham
March 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
By all accounts West Ham were lucky to get a rare win today, being awarded a goal when the ball didn’t cross the line. It makes up for all the times we have been unlucky or decisions have gone against us but the important question is whether its a flukey one-off or a turning point. […]
Spam Spam Spam
March 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Technology
In the 24 hours I have had WordPress running again I have had 1200 spam comments trapped by Akismet and Spam Karma. With that sort of volume of spamming I have had to make the spam filters quite strict so there is a little more chance of getting false positives, and less chance of me […]
Body modifications and elections
March 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politics
The combination of body modifications and elections dominated the front page of the Crawley Observer this week. It only took the newshounds there two years to find out about our MP getting a tatoo after her re-election, and they splashed it over the front page with a photo of the tattoo (Labour rose with the […]
Tags: Elections·Local Papers·WTF
Back again!
March 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology
Well everything is back up and running again. I guess I could have had it all up sooner if this was higher in my priorities. One thing I won’t do is apologise for not posting anything at all this week, or for the site being down. That always seems a bit self-important to me. (What […]
