Not Lovingfilm enough
Shoebox » Chuck & Beans. So I unsubscribed from Lovefilm DVDs today.
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Uses for an iPad
So, it’s been 190 days since I bought an iPad. I bought the magnetic cover and a bluetooth keyboard for it. At Charlie’s suggestion I also picked up the Origami case for the keyboard,...
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Boilers and the tyranny of "but it works"
So, our flat’s been out of heating for a week or so. Long term readers will remember our current boiler has never been the most logical of devices. About a year ago it entirely...
Read More →Draft Excluder, Volume 2
Because the last one was so popular. The Tyranny of Bone China – In which your humble narrator attempts to find the name of a plate pattern. A Dark Tea-time – In which...
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Stick Figures
I can’t imagine anyone reading this who has any interest in it hasn’t heard by now, but Rich Burlew’s OOTS Pledgeathon for new books is coming to an eventual conclusion in about 9...
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The last Rolo
So, of the opinion that cooking things was not going to happen this fine winter’s evening, we turned unto the Internet to send us food. Our preferred supplier of local internet foods at the moment...
Read More →On not pardoning Alan Turing
(Then) Prime Minister Gordon Brown, September 2009, being Right: So I am both pleased and proud that, thanks to a coalition of computer scientists, historians and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) activists,...
Read More →Don Camillo
I’ve got out of the habit of practicing reading stuff aloud, which is a shame. Also, I was reminded of a series of short stories I read a long time ago, amusing tales...
Read More →Department of Want and Persecution
Last Wednesday, I did something I hate with a passion I usually reserve for marmite or Mirror of her Dreams, and I resigned myself to the beige inevitablity of registering as unemployed with...
Read More →Winter Assault
London Mayor, Boris Bloody Johnson, Friday: Across all our roads and rails hundreds of workers are on standby to ensure that, should we receive a mega deposit of snow, we are in a...
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