2007-09-18 : Why the hell are college students getting tasered on campus?!
While keeping an eye on stories about civil rights and the questionable line taken by the US Government and various Police forces in light of the ongoing state of invasiveness driven by paranoia, I tend to steer clear of commenting on them for fear of going off without full possession of the facts. However in…
2007-09-09 : Gloucester – not as submersible as you’d think
Taking advantage of the fact that though most bits of England are quite close together and yet quite different, the Westminster Morris Men headed over to Gloucestershire for their inaugural Gloucestershire Tour. We based ourselves in the sleepy, quaint & amusingly named town of Minchinhampton and radiated out from there. Thankfully I didn't suffer the…
2007-09-08 : It’s wet, and you drink it
OK so I get this email from somebody (names omitted) the other day with some health advice – among other things – about drinking water. Now, it's a commonly known fact that drinking water every day is advantageous for one's wellbeing. This email newsletter was from one of those weirdo “doctors and scientists are all…
2007-09-07 : Ebb and flow, let it go.
Last night I once again had the privilege of seeing one of my all-time musical heroes, Mr David Gilmour. Last time I saw him was in the Royal Albert Hall on his “On An Island” tour. This time the venue was Leicester Square Odeon for the launch of his concert DVD from the Albert Hall…
2007-09-06 : Very good, sir!
As part of the UK Film Council's “Summer of British Film” (ideal suggestion that – encourage people to stay indoors during the 2 months of sun we get up here…), the 1954 wartime classic The Dam Busters was digitally remastered and being screened for one night only at the Shaftesbury Avenue Cineworld. So fellow Aussie…
2007-09-05 : Inconsiderate Barstools
There's me gearing up to write a nice cathartic blog rant about the MetroNet strike and what a pain in the arse it is, and before I've got ample opportunity to vent it, they've gone and called the strike off.
2007-09-04 : 15 minutes of national knob-related fame
Last night I'm out having a nice chinese dinner in Chinatown (don't even get me started on this – they must have different menus for regulars, and for people who obviously look like chumps, because extremely rare is the occasion when I can profess to having had a good meal in Chinatown), and my phone…
2007-09-03 : Same sh*t, different day, different scenery.
We're shifting offices tomorrow. It's pretty weird to change workplaces without changing jobs, and I'm not sure how I'll cope with the loss of being able to peer out the window at Big Ben whenever I want to know what time it is. What's weirder is that we're the only ones left on this floor,…
2007-09-01 : Blogtember
OK, I promised blogging every day in September that I am in London (primarily on the grounds that I'm off morris dancing this weekend and am going to be far too busy doing what we do on those weekends to get near a PC). Whether this will prove to be a good long-term strategy is…