Yesterday’s Guardian carried a small story about the Tate gallery having an exhibition of paintings by Western artists that have an Eastern subject. The headline was “Gateway to the East: Tate shows rediscovered works” but it the story itself contains something of a rediscovered word… look in the antepenultimate paragraph and there is the quote: […]
Entries Tagged as 'WTF'
Digestive diplomacy
June 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · Work
I think that this might explain a lot: according to a recent survey ((that phrase is the modern equivalent to ‘once upon a time’ isn’t it?)) four out of five UK businessmen believe that the type of biscuit they offer to prospective clients can affect the outcome of deals.
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And on your left…
June 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
…is a pile of vomit from last night’s clubbers. Well I double-checked and triple-checked but today was June 2nd andnot April 1st, so I guess this story from today’s paper must be true, and Basildon really does have a pot of lottery money to set up a heritage trail.  On the face of it the […]
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Very alternative fuels
May 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Technology
The story about the financial benefits of petrol-electric hybrid cars in today’s G2 generated a lively discussion in the canteen today. Maybe it was a mistake to involve engineers in such a debate…
What could possibly go wrong?
May 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
While discussing our various weekends over lunch today a colleague trumped us all with his activity – he went to a surprise birthday party to celebrate somebody’s 70th…
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Fields of the what??
May 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Fields of the what?? · Music
As a result of having bought some concert tickets online in the past I now get all sorts of regular e-mails from ticket agencies and venues and I’m used to seeing old names in the forthcoming attractions and thinking “are they still going?”. This week I got something from the Carling group about whats coming […]
Strange endorsements
April 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics
There are still two weeks to go in the local election campaigns but I’m not sure anything will beat the couple of strange endorsements I have come across in Crawley so far.
Stalled
April 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Stalled · Life
This afternoon we were coming out of the multi-storey car park and there was a bit of a queue. It turned out to be that somebody had stalled their car. I’m sure we have all managed to stall a car on a steep ramp ((even if we won’t admit it)) but not when going downhill. […]
Sheer optimism
April 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sheer optimism · Technology
I decided to have a little look at some statistics for this server today. Sometimes I have a glance at the top twenty search strings that people have used to get here but today I thought I would have a look at the full list of 100s and I am still eeling from the sheer […]
Going down in history?
April 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Going down in history? · Life
John Loughrey reckons he will go down in history for being the only member of the public to have attended every day of the Diana inquest. Not so sure about that. A few years down the line the inquest will be a small footnote in history at best.  Its a good story though, supplying a […]
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