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Assorted Ramblings #5 22 Dec 2009 | 01:00 pm
I was quite saddened to see the news recently that SAAB are likely to disappear as a major car maker. Of course, they have not been the SAAB of old since they joined the General Motors stable but I st...
Natural Selection 17 Dec 2009 | 12:45 pm
Here we are at the two hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his seminal work ‘On The Origin of Species‘ and if, in the darkness of night, the...
Gum Sculpture 12 Dec 2009 | 02:24 am
I have ranted on before about the curse of chewing gum being casually and selfishly discarded on pavements. But I had never really considered post-chewed gum as a sculpture medium. So both my OH and I...
London Pride 10 Dec 2009 | 12:33 pm
By coincidence, on the day that one of my small handful of readers left a comment describing the Millennium Dome as an ‘Upturned Tupperware Dish’ I was planning to write about it in this, my next post...
Poop Poop! 7 Dec 2009 | 12:42 am
Yes it’s a Segway. Or – to give it it’s full title, a Segway Personal Transporter. A relatively common sight in many US cities and, I am told, European ones as well. Unless you happen to live in Engla...
Seven Wives And The Model T Ford 30 Nov 2009 | 01:46 pm
I don’t usually do travel tips but one or two here and there will do no harm. I do not, generally speaking, like hotels that much. I have spent time in too many and while I have been lucky enough to s...
Assorted Ramblings #4 28 Nov 2009 | 03:11 pm
According to MacUser, two separate Apple centres in the USA have refused to carry out repairs on a Mac because the owner is a smoker. Not because they feel that smoking has contributed to whatever has...
The SS Man 25 Nov 2009 | 09:58 am
88 year old Heinrich Boere, a Dutchman of Dutch-German origins, is currently on trial in Germany for the murder of three Dutchmen during the Second World War. Boere clearly sided with the German side ...
The Magical Life Of Socks 23 Nov 2009 | 01:57 pm
I fully realise that I am setting myself up for ridicule here but what the hell – I’m used to that. So yes – these are my socks. Well they are one half of a weeks supply of socks. I found them last au...
International Roaming – Whatever That Means 22 Nov 2009 | 03:23 pm
The young man in the local 3 shop said “it will just work”. “Are you sure about that?” I asked. “That’s what T-Mobile said and that never worked”. And neither did 3. Well – that’s not strictly true. I...
