I’ve added a new link to the sidebar for the Stuttgart Blog - it’s a collaborative blog (in German) for people, by people, about people (to paraphrase the Yorkshire Tea advert) in and around Stuttgart. To quote the blog’s er “mission statement?”…
“Viele Stimmen erzählen vom Leben in unserer Stadt und um sie herum. Je mehr […]
In the incoming statistics I noted a link coming from the “Top 40 Conservative European English Speaking Blogs”. It’s a trifle disturbing for someone who once stood as the communist candidate in the “general election” when I was at school. I think it’s because, being English I associate the idea of “being conservative” with (and […]
You know the situation, I’m sure; you’ve known someone a while and are having the “pick a number” conversation, the number being “of previous partners”. There are, of course, many options for reply, all of them guaranteed to get you into some kind of trouble eventually:
1. “None. I’ve been saving myself for you darling.” Except […]
After demonstrating utter incompetence over the past week as far as even altering Wordpress, let alone writing my own php scripts, okay, my own .php scripts that work goes, I am once more in control of this tiny sliver of the cyberwelt; posts appear when I press “publish” as opposed to five days later (as […]
“The tactic involves police marksmen shooting a suspected suicide bomber in the head with no warning to stop them from detonating their device. It was developed as part of Operation Kratos, the Yard’s strategy to counter suicide terrorists.”
My emphasis. Fair enough. If that’s the best way to stop a suicide bomber, I wouldn’t want to […]
