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How (not) to plan folk dancing performances

2010-09-17T23:42:00.003+01:00

Ever got involved in folk dancing? Ever tried to plan a public performance picking dancers from a mix-ability side? Assume you have a repertory from which you select the dances for the event and sort them in sessions. Since -as I presume- you have the dancers x dances matrix, it can be used for a variety of other purposes: 1. Grading of competence from 0 (none) to 4 (expert), for

Which side?

2010-08-17T23:43:00.003+01:00

Womb - playground - school - work - family - garden(ing) - cemetery.Inside - outside - inside - outside - inside - countryside - suicide.Not long now. Who will notice?

Helpful warning

2010-07-18T11:58:00.001+01:00

While you are diving to your death...

Cool thoughts for a hot summer

2010-07-18T11:37:00.004+01:00

You must admit: This is cool!

-free...-less... de-...

2008-08-27T22:02:00.003+01:00

Alcohol-free wine, lactose-free milk, sugarless sweets, decaffeinated coffee, artificial insemination, immaculate conception... Where's the substance in all that?

Grand vistas? This one isn't!

2008-08-14T20:08:00.003+01:00

I love grand vistas... This one sucks. It comes from Microsoft. I tried to update with SP1 after a number of mishaps with is compatibility with several popular tools. Several attempts failed. Having despaired I resorted to M$oft support. The advice was to trurn off a number of 'things' and 'prepare' by installing dozens of patches. I was left with a wrecked system that I had to rescue and

Of nut trees and BlackBerries

2008-05-26T09:35:00.001+01:00

I had a little nut tree,Nothing would it bear,But a silver BlackBerryAnd a golden pear.The King of Spain's daughterCame to visit me,And all for the sakeOf my Black Berry.I skipped over the water,I danced over the sea,And all the birds that's in the air,they couldn't catch me.I dropped it in the brinyI dried in in the sunMy BlackBerry rebooted!It's such good fun.I got back all my messagesand wish

Planting a family tree

2008-05-26T00:17:00.003+01:00

I do hate gardening. I must be the most reluctant and inept gardener of all; but I do like gardens and nature at large. I was taken by the idea of planting a tree; one that grows fast and takes little care. Some people who had the same urge chose the wrong tree. They planted ..a family tree. They were in for a nasty surprise:Firstly, family trees grow rather slowly; one should be lucky to see

Swiss cuckoo clocks?

2008-02-03T12:10:00.000Z

Harry Lime in "The Third Man", claims that 'under the Borgias, Italy had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.' Well, not even that, one might think, given that cuckoo clocks really came from

Money in the Bank?

2008-01-29T22:42:00.000Z

Once upon a time, people used to say "It's money in the bank", meaning something safe. They also used to say "Safe as houses". In a world of failing mortgage banks, such expressions have a hollow ring. My bank lost money. Mine. It gambled on my behalf. If I wanted to gamble, I would have gone to a casino and have some fun doing it; not to a bank. I now have to ...rob a bank to make up for

In the Land of the Dangerously Boring

2008-01-19T10:00:00.000Z

Having taken a vow of anonymity I cannot receive anything from anybody; not even help. You can transmit your help to me ...transcendentally and without knowing the route. Use IP Multicast :-)I seem to suffer from a peculiar form of mental illness. The shrinks give me anti-depressant medicines that don't work but won't have me locked me up because I don't harm myself or anybody else physically.

Who's going to be Queen, then?

2007-07-08T18:19:00.000+01:00

Poor HSH Princess Marie-Sophia of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (b. 1988), daughter of Princess Irina of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg has to wait for 999 people who are in-line to the throne of England to die for her to become Queen. She often asks herself : "Am I bothered"?

Blasphemous thoughts on a holy day

2007-04-08T09:13:00.000+01:00

What to do with blasphemous children?- Easter today! - What's that?- Jesus was crucified as a rebel and then risen from the dead.- That's clever.... but I thought that was last year,mummy.- It is this year, too. Every year. It's for The Glory Of God.Child thinks: "If Jesus is a 'repeat offender' why wasn't he detained at Her Majesty's pleasure so that he won't rebel again? Another Home Office

a trident?

2007-03-14T22:38:00.000Z

The government has won Commons support for plans to renew the Trident system...We're going to pay £20bn to buy one of these?

Survival or revival

2007-03-04T11:50:00.000Z

No, I'm not dead - not yet. I've just had a recurrence of what one might describe naively as 'mood swings'; 'peaks and troughs'; etc. A local minimum was reached, predictably enough, over Xmas; but there was worse to come a few weeks later. Quite debilitating; couldn't even blog about it.I am now on the mend; keeping myself very busy (at work) and folk dancing!Would you like to see my feet? I

Political Correctness? Look elsewhere.

2006-12-16T23:05:00.000Z

My previous posting was slated for child brutality, racism and what not. As a result I decided not to approach the council with my idea of installing 'my' kind of roundabouts. They actually prefer "roundabouts" to "crossroads". They find the latter politically incorrect because of "cross" in the word - it is a religious symbol. We can't have crossroads where I live. We can't have "crescents"

Magic roundabout

2006-11-19T21:18:00.000Z

I was walking along the High Street yesterday when I saw a portable roundabout for kiddies, paid for by the council, in an attempt to attract more shoppers to the remaining few shops which are not yet boarded up. I thought of the immense potential of this machine:Parents can hand-cuff their children in it and go shopping without fear of them going astray or being kidnapped.The children will be

Research in Miss Marple's past

2006-10-15T20:32:00.000+01:00

I've been away for months, as you probably have (not) noticed. Conducting research into Miss Marple's past. For months I have been re-reading Agatha Cristie's novels, looking for clues ; to no avail. Then I heard of the discovery of a yet unpublished manuscript, which contains revealing clues about Miss Marple's past. Apparently, as the story goes in Once in a chapel, Miss Marple once

From CAMRA to ...CAMREM

2006-05-06T23:09:00.000+01:00

CAMpaign for Real English Music is a personal campaign. You are all welcome to join me. I am the (one) founding member. There is no subscription, committe or newsletter. What is it about?It is about fighting against the fashion of playing loud, repulsive, annoying, boring Americal cabaret music in English pubs where it bloody well doesn't belong! Some forms of jazz? Maybe yes. Folk rock?

PUN-A-SONIC

2006-02-04T22:57:00.000Z

Pressurising...Pressure risingPlagiarising...Pleasure risingCarbonising...Carbon icingPhantacising...Fanta sizing?!That would be too far.Obsession with puns.My literary guns aretoo small to matter,no matter how muchthey matter to me.Now, then, what's the matter?My brain is drained.Brain-drain - here we go again...There is no more inspirationand more perspiration won't make up for its

Dubious rhymes

2006-01-26T23:11:00.000Z

I've been thinking... If a teacher dared to teach infants any of the following traditional rhymes, he/she will be put straight onto the sex offenders' register for corrupting them with sexual innuendo:Bobby Shafter went to sea,Silver buckles on his knee.He'll come back and marry me,Pretty Bobby Shafter.I love little pussy,Her coat is so warm,And if I don't hurt her,She'll do me no harm.So I'll

Hark! The herald angels sing...

2005-12-18T10:18:00.000Z

Oh, Josepth do tell them to shut up. They will wake up The Baby.

Copy...what?

2005-12-04T10:39:00.000Z

Remember my websomething neoblogisms? I'm going to bore you with some more; this time with copysomething as the theme:Copyright = the right to copy (or the copy that is right)Copywrong = the copy that is obviously wrongCopyleft = the opposite for Copyright (or a magazine left on the coffee-table)Copytheft = ripped-off content (or a magazine ...stolen from the coffe-table)Copylight = a magazine

Pride in Prejudice

2005-11-09T22:13:00.000Z

At our company diversity covers a wide spectrum of attributes to include personal style, culture, age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, language, physical ability, education, experience, religion, family, citizenship status, socio-economic circumstances, education and life experiences. All employees are to demonstrate sensitivity to the heritage, beliefs and attributes of other

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...

2005-10-17T19:55:00.000+01:00

Where better to be on a sunny autumnal day off like today but Brighton? Take photos of a clear blue sea under a near-cloudless blue sky, under a sun bright enough to let you off with having nothing but a shirt on your back. Have a tasty fresh crab or braised rabbit, washed down with pretentious Sussex wine, at the "due south" restaurant in one of the King's Road arches, on the beach! Then

a circular argument

2005-09-10T22:35:00.000+01:00

a circular argument about the feasibility or infeasibility as the case may be of proving this to be a circular argument about the feasibility or infeasibility as the case may be of proving this to be a circular argument about the feasibility or infeasibility as the case may be of proving this to be a circular argument about the feasibility or infeasibility as the case may be of proving this to be

My first experience of 6X

2005-08-20T23:59:00.000+01:00

This afternoon I drove past this Devizes Cathedral of brewing . I found the nearby hotel where I once spent my first night after work as a young professional. There, my American manager bought me a pint and warned me -in his Texan accent- that the food was good but the beer lousy beause "it is warm and flat":-) As a CAMRA supporter I decided to stay there, invited my girlfriend along and

Make ... History

2005-08-07T18:07:00.000+01:00

Make Poverty History - OxfamMake Property History - Karl MarxMake Propriety History - Screaming Lord SuchMake Proprietary History - Bill GatesMake Popery History - 'Dr' Ian PaisleyMake Poetry History - The Weblocutor

Rats outside the rat-house

2005-08-07T18:03:00.000+01:00

Rotes Rathaus - Berlin's City Hall. Outside it I saw a rotting squashed rat (whatever else?). It had been run over by a bus.

The inspiral spiral of spiritual consumption

2005-07-31T22:53:00.000+01:00

Dissipative processes near a gravitational wave emission, tidal heating or drag against a massive accretion disk can have as one of the possible outcomes...capture, inspiral and ultimate destruction...Breathe in the strong vapour,trying not to cough,when your spirit levelreaches a low trough.You may seek some solacein the dark red drinkand may soon forget herfaster than you think.When your walk

Schemata

2005-07-23T19:13:00.001+01:00

An orthogonal triangle A statement of some architectural rigour and regular stupidity in in a frame of pure black ink. Step out of this border and you may die. Difficulty at the sharp END.

Silence

2005-06-19T21:17:00.000+01:00

…and then, at long last, there was silence. Ssshhhh! S_i_l_e_n_c_e. [Aaaahhhh….] If it weren’t for the tinnitus, he could say with certainty that he could hear nothing. N_o_t_h_i_n_g. At first, he welcomed his deafness. It would liberate him from bad music, irritating nagging, general nonsense and boring small talk at work [There was also interesting Smalltalk at work]. He

My future

2005-06-19T18:34:00.000+01:00

Planning one’s own future is futile. God can do this sort of thing a lot better. So, why bother? After all, some of the parameters are non-negotiable; e.g. lifespan, health (oh yes, I know all about healthy eating, drinking and fucking in moderation). In the past, I used to plan my future carefully. In the future, I will continue doing this about my past. Planning one’s past is a lot easier

Terminal Boredom

2005-06-17T21:46:00.000+01:00

Terminal BoredomIf you don't know what it is to be terminally bored, you will after you visit this site. It is arguably the most boring site I have ever visited.Bored ...of Directors? I certainly am...Bored of Directorsof metal detectorsof refuse collectorsof faulty connectorsof party defectorsof brain bisectorsof total rejectorsof boring websites

Synthetic phonics

2005-06-03T21:56:00.000+01:00

The kids will learn the sound of letters first. They will later learn to spell. "You're spelling is fundermertarly floored, James. Its more Jermin than English. You want pass you're exam like this. Use a dixionary for Havens sake", wrote the teacher on his paper.

Biblical nonsense (read it like a rap)

2005-05-08T22:12:00.000+01:00

Adam and Eve went into the woods to taste the forbidden fruitAdam forgot to dress upright in a pinstriped gentleman’s suitGod the Almighty took offence at the sight of his nude behindAnd he didn’t miss that Eve’s behind appeared to be much in his mindHe threw them out in a terrible rage to fend for themselves in the wildBut they didn’t care for the Paradise Lost ‘cause the weather was certainly

R-over...

2005-05-08T13:40:00.000+01:00

Rover UK Official Website"This site is currently suspended" :-( It feels like ringing the bell of your girlfriend's flat and the caretaker responding that she's moved out leaving no forwarding address or other contact details. I now have a classic car; out of production, dodgy dealer providing Rover maintenance before he goes bust; uncertainty about all sorts of extended warranties for which I

Nuclear submarine runs aground in London

2005-05-02T18:08:00.000+01:00

On its way upstream from the Thames estuary, this sub has run aground in Kew. Thousands of visitors have flocked to the site. It has become a major attraction.

Vanishing point

2005-05-01T22:40:00.000+01:00

“Speed away! Speed away! You’ve a long way to go.You should have left this place a long time ago”.What’s the point? I can see no point ...in rushing.The point is vanishing however fast you travel towards it.There’s no point... Do you like my poetry? Leave a comment.

nIceBox won't make me rich :-(

2005-05-01T21:39:00.000+01:00

http://diktyoma.blogspot.com/2005/02/nicebox-my-answer-to-mofts-hot-product.htmlMy new invention, described in 'my other blog', has failed to attract any interest from Venture Capitalists. Such an obvious potential success! They should be falling over each other with unlimited offers of dosh. How am I going to build a prototype without it?

Labouring under Liberal Conservatism for UK Independence and British National pride

2005-04-30T11:44:00.000+01:00

Yes, folks! It's election time again. Are you confused by my slogan? Not as much as I am about the 'policies' of the major (and minor) parties. Who's going to rob most of my money to give it to whom? Who's going to give me more money robbed from whom? Who's going to save my Health without regard to the health of my savings? Who will keep undesirables out when he can't keep desirables in?

Karol Jozef Wojtyla is no more

2005-04-09T22:30:00.000+01:00

So, farewell then, Karol Jozef Wojtyla; Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God...You were a true Leader who commanded the spiritual interests of

For four apartments and a shop...

2005-04-02T18:37:00.000+01:00

I was given a nice present yesterday, by a Greek I used to know in Athens. It was a DVD with clips from Greek movies from 1924 to 2004; eighty years in the developement of the modern city of Athens as seen through the eyes of the cinematographer. The change in landscape, class system, morals, etc. The central theme was the anarchic expansion through re-building. People would make a deal with

Shortcut to Heaven

2005-03-13T11:13:00.000Z

BBC NEWS | Eight dead in US Church massacre Soon there will be roadblocks outside American churches, as well as Iraqi mosques. Suicide with mass killing is all the rage. Help your fellow humans by providing a shorter path from their place of worship to Heaven! Atheists are safer; they don't frequent churches (unless they are trendy bishops, also found in gay bars). Unfortunately, if they do

Tsunamics and tsunamissions

2004-12-29T23:40:00.000Z

Please give $generously$ to the rescue and reconstruction effort. Give NOW!. Then read on. Suddenly, billions of people have become painfully aware of this most natural of phenomena, the tidal wave. 'Natural' of course; predicable, possibly; avoidable, most certainly not. Scientists will now redouble their eforts to model tidal wave generation and propagation. An obscure of Fluid Dynamics

Xmas lights delivering the message?

2004-12-22T19:57:00.000Z

Brilliant ideas (of mine, of course). I'll leave the patenting to you: Xmas lights programmable to deliver Xmas greetings, carols, cooking advice and what not, in ...Morse code - which might appeal to erstwhile boy scouts, like me. Xmas lights with GPRS and GSM receiving and playing SMS or speech-to-text messages as above (from relatives and other annoying intruders of my Xmas peace), with

Mary had a little lamb...

2004-12-12T13:39:00.000Z

Armed police shoot errant sheep Any jay-walker, from unruly toddlers breaking loose from nanny's grip to demented dear old ladies who strayed off the pavement onto the carriageway should better look out. Given that they will be in no position to identify a rightful owner, they may be shot for being "a danger to the public". I mean, fancy grazing on the roundabout! Mary had a little lamb, it

"Feed the world!"

2004-12-06T22:30:00.000Z

I often wondered: why don't the Band Aid organisers teach the Africans to sing "feed the world"? Wouldn't it be a more direct request than actually telling listeners to feed the world? My other half says that it wouldn't make money because people don't listen to begging starving Africans. They prefer to listen to middle-class [well, "class" is not what comes to one's mind immediately]

How things work

2004-11-19T21:35:00.000Z

If you ever wondered what is inside your knee, this will give you an idea. You can actually see the keyhole scalpel shaving off some damaded cartilage in MY knee this morning. Eeeek! Cringe! Yuk!

Why a penguin?

2004-11-19T21:03:00.000Z

Webbed feet are ideal for the web, as any fule kno'

Reagan stamps!

2004-11-09T23:12:00.000Z

Wired News U.S. Postal Service Unveils Ronald Reagan Stamp There will be people who will be spitting the front...

Well done Paula!

2004-11-07T16:57:00.000Z

Radcliffe is really struggling as I am watching and blogging. Can she do it? Can she? YES!!! Well done - and I am the first to report it!

More neoblogisms

2004-10-30T01:54:00.000+01:00

This time the topic is ...the web: Webserver - one who observes ...the web The Webserver - a web-based edition of The Observer newspaper Webservant - a staff member retained to watch out for news on the web Webservatory - where one observes or conserves the web Webservative - a member of the Webservative Party Webster - a web professional, like a web site designer Webstern - a webster who lives

Linux for the WWW

2004-10-30T01:24:00.000+01:00

What made Linux so successful as an Operating System for the web? Well, Linus (the penguin) has webbed feet...This profound observation solves the mystery that has puzzled many an IT industry analyst in the last five years. They had all failed to make the connection between webbed feet and web servers; something that had not escaped the attention of savvy computer scientists.

Aquae Sulis - that's Bath to you

2004-10-20T23:10:00.000+01:00

Working towntown Bath for a couple of weeks has been detrimental to my finances. The temptation of shopping finally exceeded my natural tightfistedness [is there such a word?] and made me think: when am I going to spend some money on myself? When my kids have spent it all and I no longer have it? Bugger that! So I bought a few things but stopped short of making Paul Smith and Justin richer.

Even more neoblogisms

2004-10-02T20:24:00.000+01:00

I saw a site with neoblogisms, all about blogs. I added some which I reproduce here. Blogfanity - none should be allowed Blogophony - in blogs containing voice clips Blogometry - blogal geometry Blogalisation - worldwide (blogal) expansion Blogger's muddle - a bugger's muddle affecting bloggers Philoblogy - the study of blog literature Blog roll - blog material fit for toilet use

Toys-4-Us!

2004-09-29T22:02:00.000+01:00

I have a new laptop; an HP Pavilion. It weighs a ton (well, nearly; 3.5kg). It is robust; it can be dropped on the carpeted floor without risk of smashing. It keeps my lap warm and my laptop cat complaining. I let her type and 'use' the mouse in this cute way that cats do: shoving it along with a paw, then pouncing on it; then tossing it into the air; then ignoring it. My cat is a

Paint it black [said the rolling stone]

2004-09-23T22:54:00.000+01:00

I went on a uni Open Day today with my son. It coincided with a freshers' reception. Thousands of kids milling around. The colour was black. Not (just) the skins but the clothes. The place was dominated by muslim females in black clothes and headgear that left ...everything to the imagination. No, it was not in Tehran; it was in London! I felt intimidated. One dared not speak in case he

Nouns of Assemblage

2004-09-13T23:55:00.000+01:00

Generations of English shoolchildren had to learn about... - a spring of teals [or maybe a summer of water-hens] - a parliament of owls [not a parliament of fools?] - a bench of bishops [..and maybe a (saucier) bedful of actresses ] - a murder of crows [ or perhaps a felony of bankers - not a wunch, it's too lenient] Excuse me but these real nouns exceed in absurdity the zaniest of Monty Python

Getting Ffffat!

2004-09-10T16:31:00.000+01:00

As a one-time anorexic kid who believed fat people should (not just 'may') die young, I am particularly distressed by having suddenly become overweight over a period of eight months, for no apparent reason. My other half believes that worry about my body will kill me before excess weight. That's because 'my other half' is really 'my other 55%' in weight; the term "other half" is grossly

More neoblogisms

2004-09-02T01:21:00.000+01:00

I may have enough of these to start a dictionary, I suppose: - Cardenial Sin = Lying about who was driving above the speed limit - Quantomechanicar = A car whose exact whereabouts and speed are indeterminate - Premolition = A nasty feeling that the house you're in will soon be demolished - QUERTY cheeseboard = One that allows trouble-free munching of cheese and biscuits with the one hand while

DLE+DODC

2004-09-02T00:09:00.000+01:00

Two famous archaic masterpieces by Homer (Simpson? In his 'idiosyncratic' spelling?)

Wow! Bicycle Repairman!

2004-08-23T23:38:00.000+01:00

Wired News: Is AM Radio Harmful?

2004-08-17T10:28:00.000+01:00

Wired News%3A Is AM Radio Harmful%3F I don't know about AM, FM or any other M; but Radio 1 and suchlike stations are DEFINITELY harmful and they ought to be ceremoniously closed down, their staff hung and quartered and ex-listeners hunted down and submitted to humiliating rehabilitation in Radio 3 boot camps. What? Did somebody just accuse me of political incorrectness and cultural intolerance?

Old photos

2004-08-01T18:36:00.000+01:00

Printed, 'real' photos; from ancient b+w to modern colour glosies. The archive is of monumental size. Six cubix feet. The proportion of interesting ones is very near zero. My life has been a depressing sequence of boring holidays, boring parties, boring publicity opportunities at work. I think that photography should be regulated and made very expensive (e.g. it should include a £50 levy per

Very cross words

2004-07-29T23:48:00.000+01:00

I'm challenging Araucaria to a duel over Guardian No 23,206. What on Earth can spell ---B-D with a clue "Round number entry - retire for night?". I've given up this clue after even my trusted crossword crackers (which I use strictly for verification only when the crossword seems complete; honest!) haven't come up with any useful words. Baahh! I was wondering how crossword setters entertain

A hope for English cricket?

2004-07-27T23:26:00.000+01:00

Did you know that cricket is becoming extinct in England? The British field cricket survives only in Sussex - of all counties. Apparently the London Zoo is involved in its rescue; a mere stone's throw from Lords' cricket ground where it once thrived.

Reflexion on inflexion

2004-07-27T16:31:00.000+01:00

Well, what do you know... WHAT do you know? What DO you know? What do YOU know? What do you KNOW? So many questions in just four words all in all! Inflexion makes the difference... Indeed, a knowledge management system (KMS) worth its salt should answer ALL of them easily. It should know who knows what, to what degree; i.e., what the collective knowledge is and who is the authoritative

Grosse Hamburger Str.

2004-07-25T17:04:00.000+01:00

Location, location, location

The right profile

2004-07-17T20:22:00.000+01:00

A kitemark of executive excellence

What am I?

2004-07-12T22:07:00.000+01:00

Now, here’s a riddle for the thinking reader (One who reads to think or who thinks of reading or thinks she’s reading): I am shut in an airtight container; not a box, something rounder and warm. I was born here. My ancestors have been born here, lived here, died here. Others like me came from outside but there was a lot of incest taking place. Oh, yes! Most of us were the result of

Diktyoma

2004-07-12T00:08:00.000+01:00

Diktyoma This is my other blog, focused on IT. This one will be maintained for personal thoughts outside IT. Such a division of interests may be trivial to other people but to me it is a major departure from the integrated norm. On this count, Diktyoma is very much experimental. It is intended to be devoid of personal trivia, events, etc. However, I can't always keep my technical thinking on

A bit of energy? Well, read below...

2004-07-11T00:45:00.000+01:00

Remember my silly, sleepy question about the weight of a Megabyte? Well, here's how to work it out and I'll leave the practical arithmetic to you. I flicked through my own Ph.D. thesis and in subsection 1.2.6 I found two pages full of sums and references to other papers. One of them, published in ACM Performance Evaluation Review [that was my stock and trade] V1 N3 1972 by R.R. Johnson,

Charlbury 7th beer festival

2004-07-10T13:23:00.000+01:00

Charlbury, Oxon. You should have come to taste some REAL ale in the Cotswolds (in England, for all you ignorant foreigners) and enjoyed the typical English summer weather: blustery showers and some feeble sunshine. Top ales were Hook Norton Haymaker 5%, Cairngorm Wild Cat 5.1%, Springhead Roaring Meg 5.5% - hardly rocket fuel, really; but it's the taste that matters. Importantly, the Beer

The two little rabbits and the Firefox

2004-07-09T02:12:00.001+01:00

Once upon a time there were two happy little rabbits. The Firefox ate them! The End. Firefox may be a cruel carnivore (although the Firefox cubs are very cute); but it is the best browser around. Try it. I'm using it right now, on an ancient laptop, to blog. The laptop weighs a ton but the 5MB download installed in a flash and hasn't made it any heavier. Amazing, isn't it? All these MBs

Flash-Mob DIY supercomputers

2004-07-07T20:31:00.000+01:00

Welcome to FlashMobComputing.orgThey used to say "don't try this at home". Oh no, please do. "With a little help from your friends" you could 'grid' together hundreds of Gigaflops. You can then use this grid to conduct weather forecasting covering your Parish for the Church Fete weekend, design a better exhaust system for your 30 year-old Ford Sierra or simply show off to your colleagues how

Freemasonry (seriously this time)

2004-07-07T12:17:00.000+01:00

Announcing the Web of Hiram This looks like a definitive piece of work on Freemasonry. It features no piles of bricks and other masonry and contains numerous academic and 'independent' references. The Book of Hiram makes tedious reading and amazed me with the tenacious adherence of the authors to their (plausible) conjecture. Rad it; see what you think.

Cheating when doing crosswords?

2004-07-06T17:23:00.000+01:00

If you want to be 'professional' about it, use this site: Granny Alice's Crossword cracker

Lost?

2004-07-05T23:34:00.000+01:00

I feel a bit out of place in here

Freemasonry

2004-07-05T23:20:00.000+01:00

Piles of it

As I said: ball games bore me

2004-07-04T16:37:00.000+01:00

What did I say? "And now for something completely different: Tim Henmann NOT winning the Wimbledon final". Well, it happened; well before the final. I was reduced to watching two other males, one of them very ugly, hitting a little ball about with a racket. The ugly one won. Yesterday, two young women were doing the same. The darker one of the two had extremely strong and attractive thighs.

Parga - Northwestern Greece

2004-07-01T23:17:00.000+01:00

Here I come. Only four weeks now...

Neoblogisms (or simply weblogisms)

2004-06-30T18:17:00.000+01:00

I like making up new meaningful words out of other words: - Compromission: a compromised mission, doomed before it started - Pleasantipathy: hiding one's antipathy behind pleasantries - Presentipity: serendipitous windfall of unexpected presents - Unicyclopedia: everything you need to know about unicycles - Copperation: helping the police - Copularity: millions tuning to Reality TV to watch live

Steve's adventures in home working

2004-06-30T18:06:00.000+01:00

Adventures in home working This is a very educational blog, from a deep thinking colleague of mine whose workstyle recently changed partly by fate and partly by choice. Visit the blog and you will greatly benefit from the variety and quality of his articles on IT and other matters.

A well-designed webspace

2004-06-27T22:03:00.000+01:00

Elizabeth Buie's Webspace Elizabeth is a dear friend of mine and an expert in human-computer interfaces. See for yourselves. Visit her site and learn from it.

And now for an amateur's attempt

2004-06-27T17:55:00.000+01:00

Weblocution My own webspace

Vintage report on a lost treasure

2004-06-27T17:42:00.000+01:00

Spotlight On: OMNI Magazine *Writers Write -- The IWJ* Deep sigh :-( OMNImag is no more. Long gone now. NEVER forgotten. I've got some paper copies somewhere, since the early 80s.

Indisoft: the answer to Microsoft

2004-06-27T17:20:00.000+01:00

HP now offers Open Sauce alternatives to Microsoft products

A cat in Lesbos

2004-06-26T14:24:00.000+01:00

Yes, you can call her a lesbian pussy, if you wish.

Coded messages in Pepys' Diary

2004-06-25T12:53:00.000+01:00

Pepy's Diary I quote: "Pepys' diary was written in shorthand so could not easily be read by a casual browser. " Let's see... He got it wrong. Reads a bit like HTML, intelligible to any browser.

Robots race across the Mojave Desert

2004-06-21T00:42:00.000+01:00

DARPA's Grand Challenge Robot Wars? You ain't seen nothin' yet! Cool stuff for robot geeks. Don't miss!

My latest passport photo

2004-06-14T23:34:00.000+01:00

Stewart Warner

2004-06-11T23:19:00.000+01:00

We once had one of these. Ours was brown. Mr Cholmondley-Warner would read the News.

Secret Delights

2004-06-09T20:13:00.000+01:00

A poem not read ~ A dish cooked but not tasted ~ A love not consciously felt ~ A quintessentially secret, unspoilt delight. Who knows of its existence, save for its author? If God had not created Man, who would know of Heaven and Earth? I am the God of Poetry! One day, I shall create some readers. Until then, my poems are mine and mine alone; written to be read in absolute solitude and silence.

BlackBerry jam

2004-06-05T18:36:00.001+01:00

My BlackBerry was stuck in a GPRS traffic jam this morning. AT&T wouldn't connect me and I switched to T-Mobile to send out this trash. Maybe there was a BlackBerry congestion. A jam. Yum! Seeing me using this baby, killing time, some folk take me for a real geek. Sad people, I would say, that never tasted BlackBerry. A colleague just interrupting me to show me his PDA that does SQL and plays

Philadelphia blues

2004-06-05T18:36:00.000+01:00

I'm stuck in a hotel in Philly. It' raining and I'm dying of boredom, sitting at Starbucks after a conference and mulling over the exciting things I learned about how the Semantic Web will cure all ills in Knowledge and Information Management. Yea? From html to xml to rfd in easy steps. Like learning your KM ABC. I've 'just' noticed that even ABC is a TLA. Every f...ing idea soon gets turned into

2004-05-30T22:36:00.000+01:00

Bisham Abbey, near home

Ball games bore me

2004-05-30T17:20:00.000+01:00

I spent several minutes watching Henmann being humiliated and then going on to win. This guy has such a surly face when playing; like a brat who has been punished by his games master by being sent to play tennis. He bores me to tears. Tennis is not actually boring but as for golf, well... One could make golf interesting by adding some features to the golf course such as: silly noises coming