As part of London’s annual Open House Weekend the opportunity comes up to go and have a look inside a variety of buildings which would ordinarily be off-limits to the general public – often in conjunction with guided tours. For
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in
The chief reason I don’t talk much about politics is that I don’t really understand it. I mean I get the concept and all, and believe in the idea of democracy – seems to beat the hell out of any
Aye, there’s the rub. A dub dub.
One of the reasons, it’s been said, that the rationalist/skeptic movement haven’t swollen their membership in the same way as say, an organised religion, is that there’s no obvious focal point for them to congregate at. So in 1999 a
And now, boxing results…
Before we get on to the riveting topic of the post, amid all the talk of Movember I thought it might be prudent to acknowledge the moustachial efforts of a fine band of individuals, being they who grew a mo
The biggest bong known to man
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Y’know sometimes when you do something which is just straight-out cool, and you know you’re gonna remember for the rest of your life? Well, that! I read on the HIGHLY EXCELLENT “Ian Visits” blog that it’s possible to arrange
It had to be him…
I suspect this is going to be one of those posts that begins with “I don’t normally get involved in such things, BUT…”. Hmm. OK, it would be safe to say that the recent televisual goings on involving Harry Connick
You have absolutely got to be shitting me, Windows…
Does anyone want to read a richly rewarding tale of PC-related joy? Huh? If you’re at all involved in programming or spending long periods working with Windows then it might just make you swear a little bit less than normal once you’ve read it…
Although probably not.
Simplify
I buy too much Stuff! Was looking for something in my room the other day and was disturbed by the amount of Stuff that I had to shift out of the way in order to look for whatever it was.
Someday my plinth will come
So today marked the beginning of Antony Gormley’s “performance piece” on the empty plinth on Trafalgar Square. The idea is that for the next 100 days anyone can apply for a 1 hour spot to mount the plinth – a
Twitter kryptonite discovered last night: luckily Kevin Spacey saved the day. Apparently.
Amid last night’s Michael Jackson news festival, a rumour popped up on Twitter that Jeff Goldblum had also died. Upon getting home I thought it a good idea to follow this up, and clicked on the link. Now, because of