Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Jul 8th, 2009
Ariel Leve, whom I haven’t read for a while, has an amusing post on her IT guy.
This brought back some memories of being the IT guy. Who else goes to parties with an OFF DUTY badge in a pocket, just in case (and, yes, I needed it and used it). I am not making it [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 30th, 2008
A truly perfect piece on Facebook by Ariel Leve in the Sunday Times today.
Indeed, Facebook should have a feature to allow you to say
Never show me that face again!
There could even be money in it, and heaven knows they need the money from what I’ve read of their capital requirements.
I would gladly pay a small [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 26th, 2008
Surely the current US election will be one of the most memorable ever, and one of the most historic?
I’ll be one of the news junkies be going through cold turkey on the 5th of November, as the ever amusing Cassandra suggests. (What a pleasure it is to enjoy reading her serious pieces in the Sunday [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 4th, 2008
At midnight the Internet turned into a pumpkin and, to my amazement, the Princess went to bed.
This is not a fairy tale!
Of course, the Internet is on her phone too. No Princess worth her salt has a phone without it these days, but it turns out that’s quite expensive to run (Vodaphone and co. have been responsible for a big decrease in teenage smoking I have read) — but nice to have, just in case, as even technophobic Princess Ariel Leve has acknowledged
It’s not that I need to send e-mail at 4am – just knowing I can is a comfort.
Posted in Misc on Aug 4th, 2008
I wondered briefly this morning how my time is distributed between newspapers and books, the Internet and TV. I was reading a book and keeping an ear on the Andrew Marr show, BBC TV’s Sunday morning political offering. It’s worth a look for its hand-picked selections from the Sunday papers.
Mr. and Mrs. Potential Voter hissed [...]
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