Entries from December 25th, 2009
On reading (or not reading) newspapers
December 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on On reading (or not reading) newspapers · Technology
Another passage from the book Viral Loop, which rang some bells with me:
Tags: Books·Newspapers
What is a blog?
December 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Technology
From a book called Viral Loop: the power of pass-it-on by Adam L.Penenberg: It has evolved into a sphere of memes and ideas constantly shaped by the millions of Web users who write, read, and comment on blogs, many of whom followed links there, which were themselves spread virally. In a sense, the blogosphere operates […]
Nothing says Christmas quite like…
December 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
…a whole street full of black sacks because the rubbish wasn’t collected this week. It is going to look lovely tomorrow after the huge cat population have an overnight shredding spree.
Tags: Bah Humbug!·Crawley Council
Its the way he tells them
December 24th, 2009 · Comments Off on Its the way he tells them · Life, Work
There was a bit of an end-of-term atmosphere at work today – which is going to make going in tomorrow feel like a real anti-climax. A major contributory factor was our xmas lunch in the canteen restaurant. Queueing up to get in there we noticed a picture of the incident at Prestwick where a Ryanair […]
Stuff White People Like
December 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Stuff White People Like · Life
This week I read Stuff White People Like, a book by Christian Lander. Net-savvy readers will recognise the title from a website of the same name, well this is one of those books where a successful blog is turned into a paper product, and a lot of the content is very familiar to anybody who […]
Decorating the cats
December 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Decorating the cats · Life
Getting the car moving again coincided with Jayne getting paid, so today saw one or two rash purchases in town while I was working, leading to an entertaining few minutes at home this evening as we tried to get Scar and Rojo to model their new scarf and santa hat.
Tags: Bah Humbug!·Pets·Photos
The fog of (price) war
December 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on The fog of (price) war · Life, Technology
I think I have found the year’s least readable newspaper story. It is from the Guardian and all about Vodafone’s forthcoming deals on iPhones. The first section is OK, and Vodafone will be happy that their PR line about it not being a price war but a network quality war got included. After that it […]
Tags: Language·Newspapers
Snowbound
December 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Our car has not moved from where it was abandoned parked on Friday – halfway down our road, pointing uphill. Actually that is only half-true. The truth is even worse, and a little more embarrassing. I did move it on Saturday morning. I got it far enough uphill to turn around, then I went off […]
Tags: Broadfield·Driving·Weather
Steepest road in Crawley?
December 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Steepest road in Crawley? · Life
A chap in Hobbs Road is in the local paper complaining about the lack of a gritting bin in his road. Having had my own simlar experiences discussin grit bins with West Sussex council I have a lot of sympathy for him, but where I have to disagree is when he says it is the […]
