I was thinking of all sorts of things to blog tonight, about my daughter, philosophical thoughts, etc...

Then I watched Hotel Rwanda on DVD, and that blew all thoughts out of my mind. I see someone else has posted the quote that really hit me up on the IMDB site:

Colonel Oliver: [explaining why the world will not intervene] You're black. You're ( Read more... )

This morning my friend D and his girlfriend R came to visit. I've know D since university. He's in many ways a stereotypical boff, rather geeky, but very smart, and currently working for IBM Research. We don't really have that much to talk about, so it was actually good that I was with Edie, following her around on the beach. She found this amazing ( Read more... )

Recently I had an email conversation with an online friend of mine around the subject of, well, my life. See, I've now been unemployed for close on a year, getting by with some research contracts, bits of computer consulting, and otherwise living off my wife. The thing is, I could get a job if I wanted to, and soon after being retrenched, I faced ( Read more... )

Just by change I clicked onto the New York Times today, to see the news that Ariel Sharon has suffered a stroke. It was strange to see, especially since I had been talking to an anarchist friend of mine, M, about Israeli politics and Sharon's role. Now, M is about to move to Israel, which is a rather odd decision, as she, like I, considers Israel ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was reading a thread on sparkleroad (another silly 'meet people' site I'm on), and people were listing their hobbies - scuba diving, climbing mountains, etc.. It was kinda alienating, since when I thought "what is my hobby?" the best thing I could come up with was toyi-toying (which I do too damn seldom - I recall the heady days of the ( Read more... )

This is an article written by a comrade in Durban, South Africa:

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An online friend of mine mentioned this web-match site to me, eHarmony. Here's part of its blurb: "more eHarmony matches result in marriage because our couples are falling in love for all the right reasons". Bloody fascinating ( Read more... )

This Dilbert cartoon is so funny because its so accurate. (Oh for those who don't know, I'm involved with a volunteer radical media collective called Indymedia)

Probably one of the top 'spin' stories at the moment is the Gaza pullout. As Jonathan Steele points out in the Guardian, the world media coverage of the eviction of 8500 settlers is an ( Read more... )

Ok, this is the result of two conversations... firstly my amazingly ( Read more... )

Like you I ( Read more... )