Test. A testing test that makes me testy.
The interview appears to be going well. Okay, as it’s with a woman and as my ability to tell what they’re really thinking is as close to non-existent as makes no difference, I can’t really be sure. But I think it’s going well. I trust I’ve managed to appear ‘confident, but not over-confident’. Of course, […]
On liberty in Britain:
The way cabinet ministers think of themselves today and what they do are at odds. They think of themselves as reasonable, tolerant, humane and liberal people, but their actions tell an altogether different story.
- taken from the Summerfield Lecture
It’s in The Independent, so it will be subscriber only soon. It’s from a […]
I blame Channel 4. Well, I blame mid-80s Channel 4 with its remit to provide minority programming specifically designed to cause Mary Whitehouse’s head to explode. We couldn’t get Channel 4 at my house, but my best friend Matthew on the other side of the valley could and I’d often cycle over there and […]
In the future, BBC news online won’t put stories like this at the head of their “science” section. And, although the future for humans might sound attractive:
“..in the nearer future, humans will evolve in 1,000 years…women will develop lighter, smooth, hairless skin, large clear eyes, pert breasts, glossy hair, and even features. Racial differences will […]
I hate this. It’s not just amazon of course, they do however send me e-mail advertising from both their German and British sites. If I (say) receive an e-mail advertising something I’ve been after for a while from amazon.de: an iPod-type-thingie which doesn’t have a (delicate) hard drive in it and has the bonus of […]
Dear Mr. E.On,
Somewhere in England you own a subsidiary responsible for the supply of my electricity. I was wondering if it would be possible to upgrade my electricity supply to the modern, always-on, available-24-hours-per-day variant, which I keep reading about in the newspapers.
I am aware from the letters you frequently send that you are […]
It should probably have appeared in the Outbox of my e-mail program though…..
Dot, get a different username, or do you find the greeting that other people receive amusing?
Song playing as this was published: The Smiths - “How Soon Is Now?”
I like my father. No, I really, really do. Mostly. We might disagree slightly about the existence of a higher being, an exact interpretation of Marxist theory and whether he really needs to leave any inheritance to both of his children, rather than just me, but we don’t have any major issues; I’m not one […]
Yes, the post was different before. Yes, I’ll re-post it. Eventually. Even though it was rubbish, but I’m so hacked off with the stupid WYSIWYG editor that I use with Wordpress and trackbacks not working and tags being stupid and about 50 other things (some of those blog-related) that I’m doing a back-up and re-install. […]
