Category: life

You know what’s almost as annoying as spam? People who send you emails containing memes that you were bored of weeks ago. I’ve just been sent the “weapons of mass destruction” meme again. It was pretty funny the first dozen or so times I saw it. Now, I don’t stress about meme repetition as much… Continue reading Memewatch

Excuse a quick rant about people who don’t understand timezones. This evening I’ve got a telephone interview with someone who will be calling me from the US. The recruitment agent told me to expect the call “at 7:30 pm”. Of course with no explicit timezone mentioned and with her and me both being in the… Continue reading Time

Whilst it’s obviously sad whenever someone dies, Bob hope is not going to be missed at all in my little corner of the world. His films have never struck me as being very entertaining, but my dislike for him increased massively when I heard about his actions at the 1970 Miss World content. Hope was… Continue reading Bob Hope

There’s an interesting article in today’s Guardian. In it Zoe Williams points out that there are probably more gay people in the UK than there are active members of the Church of England. Update: A big welcome to all the fundementalist christians who seem to be coming across this entry thru some kind of Google… Continue reading Gays vs The Church

My mobile phone company have just sent me a text message encouraging me to sign up for a service where they will send me more text messages that tell me how the British tennis player Tim Henman is doing at Wimbledon. They obviously realise that the vast majority of the UK population are keen to… Continue reading Sporting Patriotism

Summer Solstice and my thoughts turn to the Glastonbury Festival. I’m not going this year. Actually I haven’t gone for many years. The last time I went was in 1994. I was seriously considering going back this year, but tickets sold out before I got organised. Why haven’t I gone for such a long time?… Continue reading Solstice

Interesting article in the Guardian today about the Great British Seaside Resort. Well, interesting to those of us (like me) who grew up in such a place. It seems that far from dying off quietly as everyone thought they doing, these towns have been enjoying a quiet resurgence over the last few years. In fact… Continue reading Seaside Special

So this “Poi” thing that everyone seems to be talking about. What’s that then? Seems to me to be like juggling for people who can’t juggle. Or am I missing something?

This job has appeared on the UK job site JobServe like clockwork every two weeks for about the last two months. The description is always the same and it’s always the same agent (Mani Suri at Aston Carter). The job spec says “You will provide general development and testing using Perl, T-SQL and Unix Shell… Continue reading Phantom Jobs

Massive embarassment on Saturday night. We were at a party in Birmingham. About 11:30pm I wandered outside to where people were sitting round the remains of the barbeque. Someone had brought a guitar and people were playing and singing. Most of them were people who I didn’t know. Someone I did know said “Oh, Dave… Continue reading While My Guitar Gently Weeps