Someone's writing a spoof Graham Badman blog. It's quite clever, and is managing to make most of the points against his review while still being entertaining.

For reasons too complicated to explain, I typed a word into Google Maps this morning. It didn't quite show what I'd hoped to find, but it did throw up this one. I guess it really is true that Americans don't know what it means.

If your aircraft ashtrays are missing or otherwise not serviceable then you can't take off on a revenue flight. This is despite the fact that smoking is banned on pretty much all airlines. A BA 747 was apparently delayed for half an hour by this problem recently ( Read more... )

My NSLU2 storage box, upgraded some time ago to 'proper' Linux rather than the Linksys version ( Read more... )

It appears that posting using Deepest Sender works just fine apart from the fact that it won't crosspost to LJ.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign
Go here to get the ball rolling.

OK, so both this journal and Kit's journal recently got friended by Russian-language journals. Is this the new method of operation of Russian Bride agencies? If so, it appears that being able to read their language is important, and we fail miserably. I guess they'll go away eventually.

They don't look like spam journals, but I guess time will

My email to the local radio station today got commended as being worthy of Private Eye :-)

It was in the context of the new dog in the White House:

I guess Obama had to settle for a real dog after trying to follow the
example of his predecessor who had Tony Blair as his poodle. He no doubt
discovered after meeting him that Gordon Brown isn't ( Read more... )

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I was just talking to Kit about Chrono's old dog box, which is the crate in which he travelled from the US. It's dirty and needs cleaning, so we can use it for my father's dog (young, excitable labrador, aka life-support for a stomach) next weekend. I suggested to Kit that he might like to clean it and he declined. "Even if I give you a pound for ( Read more... )