May
31
Poor Gramsci
May 31, 2005 | Comments Off
Well, the time has come for our poor baby kitten, rapidly working his way towards manhood, to be unmanned. Yes, he’s going to be having a small operation this week in order that the horror of territorialism doesn’t intrude upon the family home.
I feel horrible having it done - we both do - we […]
May
31
Long Weekend?
May 31, 2005 | 1 Comment
Was it?
I’m having difficulty working out what we did with it.
I know there was a quick get-together with my mate Liz on Saturday, followed by possibly the best episode yet of new Doctor Who.
I know that Sunday was effectively wasted (though in a very pleasant way) playing World of Warcraft. David’s started a new […]
May
29
Big Brother
May 29, 2005 | Comments Off
So I was in the office until late and didn’t see anything of the initial programme of Big Brother ‘05, but I did catch up with the repeat on Saturday. Dear oh dear oh dear.
I won’t get into what I think of the individual contestants, but I will make the observation that one of […]
May
27
It’s Another World
May 27, 2005 | Comments Off
Just to illustrate the kind of neighbourhood in which I work, as distinct from the one in which I live, and how I will *never* live in the work ‘hood:
The little local shops of my usual acquaintance might stock little plastic lunchbox-style snacks like Tuna and Sweetcorn Mayo.
The little plastic lunchbox-style products the shop downstairs […]
May
27
Out For A Constitutional
May 27, 2005 | Comments Off
The world is full of discussions about constitutions. The Tories are changing theirs, the EU wants to have one (but a lot of people don’t want it to), and Egypt have been having a referendum on changing theirs to allow for contested Presidential Elections.
I’m interested, for different reasons, in all of these to one […]
May
27
Ever Decreasing Circles
May 27, 2005 | Comments Off
I think it’s possible that the Today programme has finally become so self-referential that it may never actually be able to extract its head from up its own arse.
In yesterday’s programme, the unbearably smug John Humphreys was discussing something with some academic or other and became confused because of the way the man was using […]
May
25
Episode Three
May 25, 2005 | 1 Comment
I suppose I should get this out of the way.
We went to see Star Wars Episode Three last night.
So that’s 140 minutes of my life I’m never getting back.
What a load of crap. Apart from the special effects, which were absolutely outstanding, I can’t remember the last time I felt a trip to the […]
May
24
The Malcolm X Thing
May 24, 2005 | 1 Comment
I missed the start of all this, when The Guardian published Peter Tatchell’s article about reports that Malcolm X was gay (or at least had gay experiences). But I heard some reports that the Nation of Islam were condemning the claims as an attempt to ‘undermine the morality’ of their organisation. They want […]
May
24
You Might Want To Sit Down….
May 24, 2005 | 1 Comment
….. I agree with Iain Duncan Smith.
His comments in today’s Telegraph about the danger of only Tory MPs selecting the new Conservative Party leader are spot on. Based on their current spread, one single Scot and three Welsh people would have a say, and on top of which, no one representing some of the […]
May
19
Blogging Aloft IV - Technical Matters
May 19, 2005 | Comments Off
A quick word of apology - since I upgraded to Movable Type 3.16 last week, I”m having a nightmare trying to change some settings, specifically those around comments. Despite having set it repeatedly not to require comments to be moderated, moderated they remain. So if there’s a delay in your comments appearing, apologies […]