The Duke, The Bankers and let them eat cake..
There's a line in Blackadder that sprang to mind today as I read the headlines on the BBC website: "If a Cannibal opened your head he wouldn't have enough brain to cover a water biscuit" The headline …
Tagged: personal-stuff
Dubbed Hitler - why is it funny?
After the last post on here, 'Gazing in to the abyss', I concluded that I needed to take off the Old Testament 'Prophet of Doom' robes for a little while and take a slightly lighter view of something.…
Gazing in to the abyss
Yesterday's exploration of 'What would George say?' led me to following up a few points of research and whilst browsing around I came across this quote of Orwell's: Here is a saying of Nietzche which…
What would George say?
One of the useful spin-offs from the recent (and ongoing purge and tidy) at Pritchard Towers is that every now and again something floats up that makes you think "Whoa, yes, relevant with a capital 'R…
Garden Party...
I've always been one of the world's great hoarders...one of those folks who hangs on to things because they may one day be useful, one who starts something and then has to sweat cobs to get it finishe…
The end of an era...
Well, the end of a personal era for me. A number of years ago - I think 2003 or thereabouts - I needed a new phone. I honestly can't remember what I had before the trusty Nokia shown on the left. I…
Book Review - 'Mere Christianity'
When I used to commute between work and office I used to do a regular(ish) item on here called 'The Bus Book' in which I reveiwed the book I'd been reading whilst on the commute. One book I intended …
Google and 'The Dead Past'
Earlier this year we saw the launch of Google's Street View system - here- and with it came a plethora of complaints about the invasion of privacy implications. I was one of the happy complainants -…
Death of a celebrity
This weekend the singer Stephen Gately died at his residence in Majorca. At the time of writing, the cause of death is unknown but suicide, foul play and drugs abuse are not being suggested. I was …
Meanwhile, back in June.....
Originally a Facebook Note, June 8th 2009, after the EU Elections.... The problem with democracy is that sometimes it allows people to vote for folks that you personally don't want to gain any sort of…