Joe's Jottings

Demonising Tories...or anyone...is so last century...

· civil-disobedience, general-election, politics, personal-stuff, philosophy

Now that the smoke of battle (and confusion) of General Election 2010 has cleared and we have a Coalition Government that hasn't yet been proven to be the spawn of Beelzebub, can I make a suggestion t…

4 Lions - when does bad taste become dark humour?

· ethics, morality, humour, the-media

Back in January 2009, there was a little article in The Guardian referring to thefunding of a film by Chris Morris by FilmFour, the film production arm of Channel 4.   The film, "4 Lions", has now bee…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16

· personal-stuff

Doing some Python Bioinformatics today - finally making a wee bit of use of my degree after a couple of decades... #fb # Off to church! # I'm getting all Wagnerian for Saturday evening - the overture …

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09

· personal-stuff

Pouring petrol.... RT @StarSparkle_UK: We're waiting now for some smoke to appear above no.10... - does anyone know where Gordon is? :D # You've had 13 years - don't come crawling now you've lost. RT …

The farce of the 2010 General Election

· general-election, politics, personal-stuff

Less than 2 hours after the closing of the Polls in the UK's General Election, it's clear that there have been some cock-ups in the logistical management of the election that makes most developing wor…

Earth calling Tim Cook...

· apple, ipad, personal-stuff, software-development, technology

There's a scene in Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' in which a character asks 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'  This is then followed by a host of other characters giving many useful things …

Please vote positively, and then plan for the future...

· uncategorized

The little grey cells are still going through the mill here at Pritchard Towers as I try and work out who it is I'm going to be voting for on Thursday morning.  Actually, I'll be voting twice - local …

When slogans are not enough

· civil-liberties, general-election, politics, personal-stuff

I was 18 years old in 1979; people of a certain age will remember that year as being the start of the 'Thatcher Years' - the start of 11 years of Tory Government that was characterised by radical righ…