Sep
28
Driven While Distracted
September 28, 2005 | 4 Comments
An online project with which I’ve frequently toyed would be one to which people could post details of drivers who drive while using non-handsfree mobile phones. You could post up the car type, registration, description of the driver and of the particualr thing they were doing when the fact that they were driving without […]
Sep
23
How Conventional
September 23, 2005 | Comments Off
The last Doctor Who convention I went to is at least seven years ago, but as the programme has resurfaced, so have the number of convention options available. So we’re off to Swansea for the weekend for Regenerations.
It’ll be interesting to see what the convention-going audience looks like now that in theory at least […]
Sep
21
King Of The Mountain
September 21, 2005 | 1 Comment
So the news that the new Kate Bush single had its first airing on Radio Two’s Ken Bruce show was met with some excitement in our household.
Having listened to King of the Mountain, I’m a little in two minds - on the one hand, it’s great to have new Kate Bush material available (and a […]
Sep
17
Home Again, Home Again
September 17, 2005 | 1 Comment
Bad, bad flight home stuck next to an American couple:
“Is this airport we’re flying into [Heathrow] a big one?”
Stupid delay because the gate we arrived at shares space with another on which another flight was departing, and they couldn’t risk us crossing them.
But eventually I am back in the arms of my beloved and the […]
Sep
16
Remember BookCrossing?
September 16, 2005 | 3 Comments
I mentioned it yonks and yonks ago and managed to release a grand total of two books through it.
So will I have any better luck with MyBookYourBook? I suspect not, but at least the possibility that I may receive demands from people for the books I offer up might motivate me. Of course, […]
Sep
16
Explanatory
September 16, 2005 | Comments Off
I’ve had a couple of mails enquiring about the subtitle that’s currently adorning the blog: “It’s just the guilt and forever wakefulness of the weak”, which has reminded me that I also had enquiries about a couple of previous ones and never managed to get round to explaining them.
So, the last three, in the […]
Sep
14
The BA Fiasco II
September 14, 2005 | Comments Off
Meant to blog this last week, but somehow forgot to set it to ‘publish’:
Further to my recent musing on the mess that British Airways have got themselves into over their catering situation, I wanted to offer a perspective having done some flying with them.
I’ve taken four short haul flights with them in the last week, […]
Sep
13
What’s So Bloody Urgent?
September 13, 2005 | Comments Off
I have emerged, *shattered* from the New York - San Francisco flight. It’s only five and a half hours, but it feels like I’ve been on the plane all day. And once again I marvel at how utterly unwilling to cast off the lifeline of mobile telecommunications so many people are. Well […]
Sep
13
Searching
September 13, 2005 | Comments Off
Been a while since I checked the search log for the little box over on the right, so for reference, here are the terms that people have searched on in the site since the beginning of September:
‘coren’ (What Coren? Alan Coren? Pretty sure I’ve never mentioned him).
‘dieux du stade’ (Guilty - Here it […]
Sep
12
In-Flight Entertainment
September 12, 2005 | 1 Comment
Odd flight today - I don’t often get long-haul flights that start early enough for the main meal they serve to be breakfast, but the first flight of the day from London to New York is one such.
Due to a 90 minute delay in departing (when there’s a discrepancy between the load sheet and […]