As people keep asking me off-line, here is the definition of the HDTV standard ( Read more... )

There has, of late, been a LOT of fuss over what political parties, and what they do or do not stand for ( Read more... )

In this post, I’m trying to clean up my own thoughts on a subject ( Read more... )

Some quick thoughts on marriage equality.

Opponents of marriage equality keep getting upset when we call them “bigots”. Of course, as with many words, it has several possible meanings, the one in use here best being expressed as “those who negatively discriminate against others based on their involuntary membership of an arbitrary group, especially ( Read more... )

Home alone due to my body rebelling, so a cheery subject no doubt...

There’s a lot of talk about abortion and rape recently, mostly due to the idiots who compose the extreme right of politics in the USA.

Part of the problem then, is the terms used in the discussion, reducing all points to a matter of “pro choice” and “pro life”.

In the case of “pro ( Read more... )

Well, here I am, finished work for a week off :D

Alas, it will mostly consist of sorting out the house. Hopefully this will be the end of it until we're ready to re-fit and re-decorate.
Further, today it is fourteen years to the day that I left home for uni. A lot has changed in teh meantime of coure, but life is, in general, awesome.

Also, for those ( Read more... )

Well, as of today, littletinwench  as officially put up with me for six whole years. She's evidently totally lost the plot and is totally awesome. I'm a very lucky Slev.

So, much ado today about a minority fringe of Christianity's  disproportionally vocal extremist fringe proclaiming the discriminant Rapture ( Read more... )

For those who don't know I've hurt my knee, very badly ( Read more... )

So, getting on for a year ago, Rockworld failed, and a slew of other nights sprung up to fill the void. Most of those nights died pretty quickly, and many others (some of which pre-dated Rockworld's demise) have folded too.

Now, there is no single reason all these clubs/nights failed. In most cases, it's a combination of several underlying reasons.

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