Since Chancery Lane tube station has been closed (because of last weekends derailment) I’ve been walking to work from Bank station. This takes me past the Old Bailey (the UK’s central criminal court). Normally I’m walking past this building at about 8:30am which is long before anything starts happening there (judges like their beauty sleep).… Continue reading Police and Thieves (oh yeah!)
Month: January 2003
Left Behind
I recently read Left Behind by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. It’s the first in a series of books about what happens when The Rapture comes and all the “real” xtians are taken off to heaven and the rest of us are left behind to deal on our own. It’s not the kind of… Continue reading Left Behind
Tube Trouble
A tube train was derailed in a tunnel on Saturday afternoon. There were no fatalities but about 30 of the 800 passengers were treated for various levels of injury. Current theory seems to be that a motor fell off the underside of one of the rear carriages. All of the rolling stock on that line… Continue reading Tube Trouble
War (What Is It Good For?)
Anyone remember Tom Robinson? Well he’s got a good page on his web site about what we can all do to protest about the forthcoming war. I particularly like the Clone of the Attack poster.
The Return Of The Vampire Slayer
So after six months of waiting, tonight we finally get a new episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on UK TV. It’s the first episode of season 7. Apparently it’s going to be a good deal less dark than the last season. So what do we know? Alyson Hannigan (Willow) and Anthony Head (Giles) have… Continue reading The Return Of The Vampire Slayer
Bowling For Columbine
Last night I finally got to see Michael Moore‘s film Bowling for Columbine. It was every bit as good as I expected. Moore looks at the huge number of people who are killed with guns in the USA annually and tries to understand what the causes are. In the process he manages to make a… Continue reading Bowling For Columbine
ID Cards
Those excellent people from Stand are at it again. This time they are asking people to register their feelings about the proposed introduction of ID cards in the UK. The government are currently undergoing a period of public consultation on this matter and they claim that the responses they’ve been getting have all been very… Continue reading ID Cards
Top 1000
Cool. I just discovered that I’m an Amazon UK Top 1000 reviewer. Of course, I’m still not buying from them.
Doonesbury
Whilst browsing some old entries on Ask’s blog I found an entry pointing out a very appropriate Doonesbury cartoon. (Actually, I’m just trying out Movable Type’s trackback functionality)
Snow
It’s been snowing here for two days so the British transport system has fallen to pieces. It does that most years. I hate snow. If I remember the books I was reading 30 years ago, by the 21st century we were supposed to all be living in cities that were covered by great glass domes… Continue reading Snow