Gin
June 8, 2008
All these years I thought I could not stand Gin. Not so any more. It turns out it’s actually the Tonic water that so violently disagree with me. Gin, a twist of lime, and lemonade or coke is really quite enjoyable. Who would’ve thunk it?
Guitar and Chess pieces for sale
February 3, 2008
Dear Lazyweb,
Please buy my handmade Tanglewood acoustic guitar and metal Chess pieces. Thank you!
So hilarious, yet so sad!
November 12, 2007
Will comments on a story in the Manchester Evening News about a lottery that has been scratched because a lot of people get confused about which number is lower: -6 or -7.
I’m in two minds about the “news”. My immediate reaction was to find it hilarious. It proves rule #1: people are stupid. But then I started to think. Nobody could really be that stupid, could they? I can’t help feeling that the story must be fabricated. Maybe it was a slow news day, so the paper cut a few corners. Or could it be that people are so eager to be in the limelight that they’re willing to come off as complete idiots to get their 15 minutes of fame?
My second reaction is depression, and a deep sadness about the state of education in UK. I knew it was bad, but it was news to me that the level of reading and numeracy is so poor here that a significant portion of grown-ups can’t even read a thermometer.
New Cocoa blog
October 17, 2007
I’ve started a new blog, Hot Chocolate, where I’ll be posting on Cocoa development. Check it out.
Monday
July 28, 2007
Is going to be interesting…
English Football and Education
March 29, 2007
Boris Johnson’s post about English Football and Education is a great read. Though I’m myself not very interested in football (other than as a way of taking exercise) I believe that people need heroes. Unfortunately, buffoons earning hundreds of thousands pounds a week aren’t really great role models for young lads who already have a hard time motivating themselves to work on their education.
Well done is
March 22, 2007
My boss is very good at taking meeting notes so that everybody knows what’s going on. These notes are highly distilled and this week’s notes contained the following rather cryptic bullet point: Well done is. After puzzling over what he could have meant for a little while I realised that it actually makes sense as a statement in its own right, akin to Unix improvements aren’t.
Walking home from work today I spent some time philosophising over this. I had in my head a long rambling post about the importance of stopping to acknowledge that well done is and how it could fundamentally change people’s lives in weird and wonderful ways. Unfortunately I arrived home and Nadia gave me a cookie and now it’s all lost forever.
Meh. It was a good cookie. It was worth it.
Buying a TV license online
March 7, 2007
About to purchase a TV license online (now that I have a TV I think I should get one) I was reading through their terms and conditions and found this near the bottom:
15. Under no circumstances will we be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from your purchase of your TV Licence online and the delivery and receipt of your TV Licence, instalment payment plan (if applicable) and your first reminder electronically regardless of the form of action.
16. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
Some serious ass-covering there. Makes you wonder what experiences people have had in the past, that makes them come up with this crap. Or have they just put people in a room and told them to come up with the most inane clauses imaginable to put in their terms and conditions? Maybe I’m just being stupid; is this really a humour site and I just don’t get the joke?
Don’t knock the weather
January 22, 2007
This quote by Kin Hubbard seems particularly apt today:
‘Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.’
(Via the Quotes of the Day RSS feed.)
Blog merge
January 7, 2007
I’ve decided to end the experiment of having a separate blog for tech content. All the posts from my now-defunct tech blog has been moved here, and for some time they will exist in two places. At some point in time I’ll remove the other blog.
