Years from now, my children* will ask me "Daddy, you talk about the Blair years as if they were a second Dark Age of unmitigated woes! Even with the country run by a cartel of remorseless, lying philistines who managed to find a way of combining the worst ideas of both left and right into one hideous concatenation of pure evil, surely there must ( Read more... )

Activists attempt to turn the tables on Supreme Court judgeChildish, I know - he interprets Eminent Domain laws to allow the demolition of private homes on rather tenuous grounds, so they decide to use this to apply to knock down his house and build a hotel on top. Childish, but also highly ironic, and I can forgive a lot of puerility in the ( Read more... )

Interestingly, Hull City Council is spying on me.

Idly flicking through the latest Observer, I came upon their advert for a 'Media Relations Manager'. Attempting to emphasise the hard-hitting, action-packed nature of the job, begins "If you're looking for a quiet life, buy a pair of slippers. No offence to those soft-soled readers amongst you, but ( Read more... )

I couldn't quite believe it: Brown Promotes BritishnessLeaving aside the obvious 'Labour-Party-bunch-of-traitors-hardly-in-any-position-to-preach-patriotism' point, he appears to be saying that the best way to celebrate Britishness is, er, to copy the Americans. Good thinking, Gordon ( Read more... )

On Monday I had my first interview - for anything - since the obvious one in Oxford, December 2000. It came about pretty unintentionally - the firm I went on an open day for turned out to have a scheme giving automatic interviews to people who'd attended the open day. Since going to the open day itself was practically an accident, this was all very ( Read more... )

You know your LJ experience has come full circle when one person you know from one group suddenly posts something relating to someone from an entirely different group.

In this case colinzeal posted this meme which handily informs the user that it was made by pseudomonas, whom I don't think I've ever met but have certainly come across via midnightmelody and others ( Read more... )

"Get a wireless connection!" they said ( Read more... )

Surprisingly prescient, perhaps?

Fair enough then. With the general trend being in favour of a little experimentation in this field, I've lined up userpics for a variety of occasions ( Read more... )

Is Christmas: The birth of a martyr?
A feast with five courses (plus starter)?
A retailers' wheeze?
Well yes, all of these
And an island just south of Jakarta.

Merry Christmas to everyone!