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Hosting Change

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Due to some changes with my hosting provider, the next few days will be slightly odd, with the site disappearing and reappearing as and when it feels like it. Unfortunately this is pretty much beyond my control. However, when everything is stable again I will likely start afresh with my blog to coincide (roughly) with […]

Has it really been that long?!?!?

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Has it really been that long?!?!?
Well, in the intervening period a small amount of trivial and rather uninteresting stuff has happened:
I passed my driving test back in May, and I have since decided that every other motorist is an idiot and shouldn’t be on the road. Supposedly it normally takes years to learn that skill, […]

Euphuistic Blithering

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I quite like the phrase “euphuistic blithering”, after reading it in the paper today. Pondering it as a new slogan to replace the current one…

We Hope You Enjoyed Reading this Post

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Amazon just sent me one of their oh-so-useless-and-far-too-frequent emails, gleefully advertising 40% off a book that I am not interested in, never will be interested in, and bears no resemblance to my past ordering history.
Around one third of the way into the email, where the footer and smallprint start, was this paragraph:

We hope you enjoyed […]

Mine, All Mine!

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Well, as T-Mobile has decided that they own the colour magenta, and we have all known that the Royal Mail staked claim to the colour red a while ago. Cadbury’s own the colour purple, Heinz own the turquoise colour used on their cans, BP own green and Orange own, well… orange (more specifically, Pantone 151).
It’s […]