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A disaster-movie script for an economist
Take a train or drive out of London, at least a hundred miles, and pick a destination: a medium-sized town of a hundred thousand citizens or so ( Read more... ) -
More iPhone Woes
I'm not the only iPhone user with problems following the botched operating system 'upgrade' for the iPhone 3G: feel free to Google for examples of 15-20 or 30 or 60-second delays for menus and pages to go 'live' and start responding to user inputs… But I've now discovered that the 'slide to answer' dialog for picking up incoming phone calls has ( Read more... ) -
Quantock Analyst
So it's August, and I'm down in Darkest Somerset for the Ki Federation Summer School. I usually hire a bicycle from the guest house when I'm down here for any length of time,so that I can get out and about and see a bt of the countryside...
...Which I seem to have done today: at a rough guess, fifty miles of it.
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The poetry of the professions
Partying in Cambridge last night, our delightful hostess fiona_kitty introduced me to Aoife, an actuaritrix, who requested a terrible thing: ( A Limerick extolling the virtues of an actuary: ) -
The curse of the Vuvuzealot
Tell me, O Wise Ones of The InterWeb: are there long-term health effects associated with blowing the Vuvuzela?
And if not, why not? I ask merely for infomation... And in the hope that the benighted oiks who play* the blasted things will die a horrible death. Or better still, be struck by some embarrassing debilitation that will make their fellow- ( Read more... ) -
Hairyears: a note on pronunciation
"Hairyears! It's what Prince Charles says when he wins at hide-and-seek".
Brought to you by Alex-Downunder.
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Bad ideas... Wanna hear a rumour?
Another conversation in the Pembury, aided by beer and abetted by the estimable PFY: starting plausible rumours.
I had a go just after the election, via Twitter: HM Treasury and Number 11 plunged into crisis by HM Stationery Office, who are unable to supply crayons. Sadly, this failed to gain traction; I may try again after George Osborne's first ( Read more... ) -
Spring-Cleaning
I've been doing a bit of spring-cleaning on the Friends-List, address book, and the contacts stored in my phone: feel free to poke me here (comments are screened) if you would pefer that I hadn't ( Read more... ) -
All change, no change...
Up late, watching the results come in ( Read more... )
