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Romance isn't dead. Yet.
In the total absence of proper blogging content, I have resolved to mark the runup to the Feast Of Saccharine Squelchiness by tweeting a Valentine's Limerick every day.
Here goes:
The English on Valentine's Day
By chemical means get a Lay
This miracle pivots
On snippets of civets
Presented in bottles of spray
I look forward to your -
The coming finance crisis: a warning
"It's very simple, Minister..."
( Lend a little, and you own him; lend a lot, and he owns *you*... ) -
Tell me, O wisdom of the Internets...
I have a couple of ebooks on my iPhone, in differing proprietary formats: they are great for reading wherever there's no Internet, but I am drawn towards bite-sized essays and short stories as I only use the iPants for reading when I'm on the move.
I've now worked my way through all of Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe (there are reasons why the ( Read more... ) -
Lessons in practical electronics, and more reasons to loathe the iPhone
I am somewhere in East London, unable to make phone calls: the wonderful O2 network leaves my phone (and yours) hanging in the 'connecting' screen indefinitely - O2 calls in London frequently take more than a minute to connect, and often time out with 'call failed' at busy times - and the iPants has an particularly venomous incompetence: no-one in ( Read more... ) -
'Overturn' - The Disaster Movie You'll Never See At The Cinema
No, I'm not doing NanoWriMo: I'm working too many hours, and sufficiently fed up that I'd write a novella that'd leave you whimpering under the duvet if - as is likely, given my writing skills - you didn't bin it after slogging through half a chapter ( Read more... ) -
Chuff-chuffed
I am trundling back towards Taunton (pulling out of Stogumber as I type this) after a lazy afternoon pottering around Watchet, an industrial port that's sort-of-retired and become The Seaside... Only without much sand, and a rather pleasant village with a Camra award-winning pub (the Star) and a promising seafood restaurant that is serving local ( Read more... ) -
An overlooked symptom of Swine Flu in the United Kingdom: Cluelessness
Right, everyone else has had swine 'flu - or will probably have it, soon - so it must be my turn and the mild sore throat and vaguely-like-an-injury sensation in my knees and ankles might be it. But does anyone actually know that they had it? As in, had an antibody test that positively identified the virus as influenza A, subtype H1N1 ( Read more... ) -
More reasons why I hate the iPhone
I have some video footage of Aikido gradings - katas, techniques, exercises I've done and need to review, things I'll need to know for my next exam - you don't need to know what it is, but it's stuff I recorded and I own and it would be useful for me to watch on a mobile device when I'm on the move ( Read more... ) -
A very geeky question
Here in Darkest Somerset, watching the world go by as I await the arrival of battlekitty and pplfichi ( and a few others from the Bethnal Green Aikido club ), I saw the barmaid testing a £20 note with one of those fancy marker pens that detect a fake note ( Read more... ) -
Quick! What was that bird?
Is there a workable online resource for identifying wild birds in the UK? Not the RSPB, it's flash-dependent and the images I can load on a phone don't give flight signatures, silhouettes and outlines -it's a study resource, not a field guide ( Read more... )