As I type this, I just whacked “Never dig a wine cellar in a boat” into a search engine, just to see if anyone out there:
Lives in Cornwall
Has visited a small independent shop somewhere down there
Bought a bookmark/keyring/coaster
Bothered to type it on to the Internet
And got indexed by a search engine
Amazing, the number of people […]
Amazon allows people to review products, just like many other online stores. They also sell items on pre-order, just like many online stores. But, they combine the two into a wonderful world of pre-reviewing. This makes no sense, how can people (the general public, not press, media and critics (they don’t class as people)) review […]
Did you know tomorrow is the International Day of Peace? Did you know that today Thailand is in a coup d’état? Does anyone see a slight contradiction here? Did anyone also watch Spooks at the weekend? Can we see a theme here? Has anyone spotted that every sentence I have typed has terminated in a […]
Scott Adams writes the Dilbert comic, which appears in all sorts of newspapers etc. Anyway, I spotted this little gem on his website:
Now I realize I have to change. In the old days I would say, for example, “It’s raining.” In the future I will say, “It is raining right now, right here, outside and […]
A week is a long time in politics, and is also quite a while in, say, a chemistry lesson, but that little quote has never really stuck. Anyway, as I am sure many of you know, the Tories recently changed their logo from a torch to a squiggle. I was going to put the two […]