Thursday, December 28, 2006
President Ford died yesterday, who was President of the United States despite never having been elected either President or Vice President. America is mourning him, and more than one pundit has regretted his narrow defeat in his re-election bid. The Telegraph muses about the influence of comedians on this election, and the unfairness [...]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Now that my thesis is done, I find reading about investigations into procrastination interesting, informative, and amusing.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
The Ampersand character is older than I realised, at least according to Wikipedia. Adobe has some further examples of how it is or was written.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
The Economist blog has a good article about why the Green movement only champions certain solutions to the cause of global warming, arguably (after wildlife protection) the only one of its many aims to have captured public and political imaginations.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
You may now all ask me about my thesis.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Conspiracy theorists and other loons have long written about supposed (British) Secret Service interference in Princess Diana’s life. Now it seems that there is some evidence that she really was of interest - to the Americans.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
The Civitas blog has taken a stance against the niqab. As they point out, the question of individual choice is only part of the equation.
This is not, after all, simply a matter of fashion, nor it is not intended as such by its wearers or their theological leaders. Rather, it is [...]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
I have added a poll, which should appear on the left hand side of the page. Please report any problems, including slow page-loading.
Depending in part on the results, as of 1st Jan, this blog may or may not exist.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
But Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said Army soldiers and Marines are not forbidden to come up with new ways to do their jobs, especially in Iraq’s ever-evolving battlefield. And he said commanders are given money to buy nonstandard supplies as needed.
The ‘non-standard supplies’ in question may be Silly String(TM), [...]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
The Telegraph points out that film-makers should chose locations with more care. Not every town outside Western Europe and America is overrun with guns. So I’m told.