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Administratium – old humour, still depressingly true!
I found this this evening whilst clearing out some computer files from 1998. I have no idea where it originated or how it got to me; it’s not original to me, but it’s depressing how little things change. This was from a time in my life when I found humour in the stupidity of organisations. I’m
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The braying voices….
A little while ago I turned the TV on to get the lunchtime news, and was staggered to find Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) on 3 BBC Channels – BBC News, BBC Parliament and BBC 2 – and also on Sky news. I took a look at what was going on, and was seriously unimpressed. There’s
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Real Time Search – how important?
Well, both Microsoft and Google have stated that they’re adding the capability to search Twitter feeds in real-time to their search engines. What does this mean to us mere mortals who tweet and search? The example that I’ve seen given about the usefulness of Real Time Search (RTS) is to do with skiing – not
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Springing forward as we fall back – why I like GMT!
It’s that day! The last Sunday in October when ‘the clocks go back’. For many, the official start of winter rather than the end of British Summer Time (or Daylight Saving Time for non-Brits). We’ve had the ‘time discussion’ here at Pritchard Towers; that’s when my wife says ‘What time is it’ and I explain that it’s 7am
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A good time to upgrade WordPress!
I’ve just upgraded various blogs I look after – including my own – to WordPress 2.8.5. This release is regarded as a ‘hardening’ release by WordPress themselves, and if you’re reasonably up to date the upgrade is a piece of cake – the automatic installer does it all for you. It might also be a
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BNP support increase – why the surprise?
For anyone who’s been asleep or under a particularly soundproofed rock for the last few weeks, here’s a quick ‘catch up’. Nick Griffin, leader of the UK’s Far Right British National Party, was invited on to BBC Television’s flagship political debate programme, ‘Question Time’. This generated a great deal of fuss and bother. Anti-Fascist groups demonstrated,
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The Duke, The Bankers and let them eat cake..
There’s a line in Blackadder that sprang to mind today as I read the headlines on the BBC website: “If a Cannibal opened your head he wouldn’t have enough brain to cover a water biscuit” The headline was this – “Banker bonuses minute, says duke“, the Duke in question being Andrew, Duke of York. My immediate
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Dubbed Hitler – why is it funny?
After the last post on here, ‘Gazing in to the abyss’, I concluded that I needed to take off the Old Testament ‘Prophet of Doom’ robes for a little while and take a slightly lighter view of something. Which is why, at first glance, the title of this piece may raise the odd eyebrow. Some
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Gazing in to the abyss
Yesterday’s exploration of ‘What would George say?’ led me to following up a few points of research and whilst browsing around I came across this quote of Orwell’s: Here is a saying of Nietzche which I have quoted before, but which is worth quoting again: He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon