OK, I've done it. I've joined Twitter. There's no point following me, or expecting me to follow you. Unless you're Mitch Benn. Follow Him. FOLLOW HIM! Sorry. Anyway, listen to The Now Show this week and you'll understand.

Chaps,

I've had a Windows Mobile 5 device. I now have a Windows Mobile 6.1 device. And I've seen and poked at many, many, others. They're all crap. Why not try nicking the *good* bits of Palm and RIM's (and occasionally Psion's) designs for a change?

I already have enough phones without having to carry this lump around as well.

No love,

Me.

This year is one to be stepping out of some comfort zones. A significant change is that I've gone down to 4 days a week at work so I can persue "other things". The general nature of these things is intended to be heading towards "stuff that doesn't require being based anywhere in particular". Or to look at another way, stuff I can also do/be based ( Read more... )

"If you do not wish to re-type the same details you've already put in a couple of times already again, please press cancel but be warned we'll just keep cycling back to this page until you do put in the details. Again ( Read more... )

Which, since I didn't even apply for "Part Time Receptionist - Hilton London Gatwick Airport" is no great loss. Apparently they'd like to thank me for my time and effort though. Which is nice.

From the "Why on earth can't we do that here?" file, we bring you the Tzu Chi Foundation and their Silent Mentor programme as a means of obtaining cadavers for medical training. There's an outline as part of a more general article here and a vignette from a medical student here.

(I wonder if this was the inspiration for the HHGTTG Dish of the Day.

Well, no, but if the presence of such comes as any surprise to them at all I can only think that one of London Lite's headline writers hasn't ever been near a place of worship belonging to the majority of the world's major religions. The current crop of organised religions have been around for how many hundred years? Some of them are gradually, ( Read more... )

This sort of thing is one of the reasons why having a Royal family is such a good idea, I think ( Read more... )

The road our office is on is so hip it can hardly see over it's pelvis.


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It's the third annual Veterans Day today. Well, for the next few hours at least. Apart from the direct.gov website on which I happened to be looking for something else, I can only assume that the press release is on one of the few CDs or laptops the government as a whole hasn't manage to lose lately and thus it didn't manage to escape. Even digging ( Read more... )