I admit I do not understand entirely what they are talking about but I can recognise a muppet when I see one.

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Pretty much on the spot: To politicians, we're little more than meaningless blobs on a monitor.

I remember seeing this picture in Valencia on a hearing aid shop almost 20 odd years ago and falling in love with it. We just happened to walk in front of the same shop yesterday and I told R. about it and how much I liked it but had never seen it again. Obviously an hour later just walking past another hearing aid shop near my folks there it was ( Read more... )

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“In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’”
NY Times

Back to my 'one book a week' goal which is not bad going all things considered. It does rely on picking interesting books that are hard to leave down just to watch something stupid on the TV or read the paper ( Read more... )

It has been ages since I was eagerly awaiting the release date for an album so I felt a bit like a teenager popping at 8:15am into HMV to get the first Glasvegas one (and as a sucker I got the limited edition). Well, it sucks. Compared to the demo tapes (err.. demo mp3's) it sucks. The production is so clean that it has taken away the whole point ( Read more... )

4 hours spent configuring 2 JMS servers to talk to each other and bend to my will. Things would have been easier if both were installed and configured in the same way and (mostly) if the documentation was any helpful. But it wasn't.
Now I have to spend some time fabricating evidence that I can fulfill my muppet post in competent fashion.

Less than 36 hours to be back in the civilised word. Don't get fooled, Greeks might have invented civilisation but it took a flight a couple of thousands years ago. However these last two weeks have provided a number of observations ( Read more... )

uncledisgusting is descending upon London for a couple of days of games and inebriation culminating on Tuesday night with saturdays_boy. I have just realised, by bothering to check my ticket, that I am supposed to take off from Gatwick at 7:15am on Wednesday. I guess there is no much point on going to sleep tomorrow night.