A COMMON EXPERIENCE?

How many of you have had a similar experience to this when dealing with computer stuff? I just did… again. Douglas Adams – Dongly Things Time to declare war, I think, on little dongly things. More of them turned up in the post this morning. I’d ordered a new optical disk drive from an American [...]

WHAT’S GOING ON?

Thanks to Seán for this great video…

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GIANTS AND PYGMIES

A lesser-known Howard Zinn quote I found really interesting lately was… “It’s very interesting that intellectual giants and intellectual pygmies often have the same policies.” He was referring to Reagan and Kissinger. I’ll let you work out which one is which. However, it raises a few possibilites… The idiot in the relationship is manipulated by [...]

INTELLIGENT LIFE?

“Sometimes I think that the greatest sign that there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe is that it hasn’t tried to contact us yet.” – Bill Watterson, “Calvin and Hobbes” “Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.” – Voltaire, in Memnon the Philosopher Another cartoon from Rick…

NOT PUBLISHED

I have been very busy. Things calming down now though so should have some more regular posting. A small point though. BBC were saying tonight that New Zealand were the only team ever to go out the world cup without losing a match. This is completely untrue. Several teams have been in this position but [...]

AND THEREFORE?

Yesterday I was on a bus on the motorway and a car with a “baby on board” sign screamed past at about 110 miles an hour.