Month: October 2002

New planet discovered. The question is, why wasn’t it discovered twenty years ago?

Sense at last in the internet radio debate. Remember kids, it’s RADIO not file sharing! All we need is more deals like this one.

Amongst other excellent (and, at times, painful to read) writing, Noodle Vague gets subversive, and makes quite a valid point.
I’m often frustrated by people that don’t think. People who just let life wash over them, accept the crap that they are told, fail to challenge the situation they are in, never look beyond the veneer of words. People that don’t use their common sense. They all deserve a good slapping.
How handy! It’ll soon be time for the second annual Common Sense Day (heads off to create groovy logo).

This makes for interesting reading, although the sample is probably a little too small to be statistically significant. Note that IDS answers no correspondence at all (within the 14 day time limit of the survey), and the PM and Charles Kennedy answer only 40% and 39% respectively. Ken Clarke only matches the LibDem leader’s response rate, whereas my MP, Andrew Tyrie, manages to beat the average with a response rate of 67%. All of which is pretty shoddy when local councils and other public bodies are expected to achieve correspondence response rates of at least 90%.

Interesting. My uncle served with the Royal Navy in the Pacific, and “went over the side” several times when attempting to land on his aircraft carrier (I think he was a navigator).

Nissan can not be the only company that think like this. Even our tiny business would benefit from joining the euro, I believe, as we purchase young plants and seeds from euro nations, and send our plants to customers in those countries.

Fantastic! Vodka and pong in one handy bite sized morsel!

Met a really nice and pretty girl on the train home tonight, a student at Portsmouth Uni studying marketing. In a way, I’m kicking myself that I didn’t ask for her number or invite her for a drink, as she lingered quite pointedly as we parted after a seven minute chat on the train, saying “I’m not in a rush to be anywhere”. But, let’s face it, she was only 21 or so!
Still, good for the ego to be on the receiving end of some flirting that wasn’t coming from a human loo brush.

It wasn’t a painful birth, you know. Grayblog has a child.

Paper airplane flight simulator. A bit buggy, but good fun.