Today in “Everyday items which are slowly killing you” news: Teflon will/won’t give you brain tumors/ass cancer/Mono/erectile disfunction/heart disease/hypertension.
The UK government are afraid that the increased encryption of user’s data in Microsoft’s ‘Vista’ operating system will make it harder to spy on citizens, and are talking to MS in an attempt to build a backdoor [...]
19:45 - 14th of February, and the flower stall outside Clapham Junction station is doing a simply staggering amount of trade.
Being so close to such a concentrated source of fear, desperation and last-minute panic is an odd experience; you can see the air shimmering mirage-like; the pressure feels like the hour before a thunder storm; [...]
Not this crap again…
Unless the House of Lords manages to intervene again, it looks like applying for a new passport before 2008 would be a good move.
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Fantastically creepy. I’m still sort of amazed that books as surreal as Murakami’s sell so well over here. The plot unfolds pretty slowly, so it wouldn’t be helpful to try to outline it, but the book’s really about evoking a sense of isolation and disconnectedness. I’ve read some interviews [...]
Whiskey Trainers Galore!
I’m sitting watching the Grammy awards on TV (no, I’m not really sure why.) Bruce Springsteen’s singing ‘Devils and Dust‘ - a gravelly, sombre, Dylan-esque thing - but I think I’m failing to really get into the mood of the song thanks to the pub over the road blasting out the Fatboy Slim remix of [...]
Well, it’s been an ‘interesting’ couple of weeks, for that special interpretation of ‘interesting’ that actually means ‘I often wished I could slump into a corner and die.’
12 days of working days, evenings, nights and weekends trying to get an alpha version of a program finished and sent out to various users in the company, [...]
Thought 1:
Holy crap! Look at that line-up! I must go to these shows. My life may depend on it!
Thought 2:
Great flying double damn monkey-fuck! That’s a lot of money! (and already sold out.)