Archive of: 2003

The Red Cross have launched an appeal in order to send relief to victims of the earthquake in Iran. You can make a donation online in the UK or visit the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Page.

Bethlehem Media Net strives to be the “voice of the voiceless” bringing the stories of the Palestinian people and their religious communities to the web. Via Sojourners.

Today I got the results of the Open University Courses that I studied this last year – AD317 (Religion Today, Tradition, Modernity and Change) and A297 (Reading Classical Latin).

I’m very happy to have got good passes for both subjects. I had convinced myself I had failed the Latin [...]

“And the MD of all of this has set up a new publishing house – registered less than two months after the bankruptcy of Wrox – in the same industry, in a building once occupied by Wrox … “

Bruce Lawson, a former editor at Glasshaus which was part of [...]

“Every time you write an inappropriate selector, it makes the Baby Carolyn cry.” … congratulations on your new baby Eric, but with the amount of dodgy CSS out there, you’re going to be getting many sleepless nights ;)

I had a phonecall yesterday,

“May I speak to Ms Test?”

I replied that there wasn’t any Ms. Test here, and that this was edgeofmyseat.com…. and there was silence at the end of the line. When she explained where she was calling from, all was made clear, as this particular [...]

I’ve not posted for a while, mainly because I’ve been a bit poorly, poorly enough to not get much work done which isn’t like me at all, as I normally work through anything.

So now I’m really busy, I was busy before and now it’s crazy! It’s ok though .. the [...]

I’ve started to learn to drive. Where I now live people always assume that you drive. I lived in London for 5 years and in London people don’t presume that you have a car, because lots of people don’t. However here, everyone drives their is no local public transport to [...]

When I was a kid, up in the North East of England, there was none of this pumpkin carving business, we were tough, we hollowed out turnips for our lanterns.

If you’ve ever tried to hollow out a turnip, you’ll know that a pumpkin is a much better option, pumpkins are [...]

More proof that our country is being run by fools … Derek Wyatt MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey unleashes his brilliant anti-spam plan … postcodes as email addresses … no, it’s not a joke. More on El Reg. Via Radiac.