I’ve gone and got another cold, this is no doubt some kind of divine retribution for always being smug about hardly getting any colds, as this year it seems like someone has just needed to sneeze within a 100 yards of my vicinity and I’ve caught their cold. Because having a blocked nose makes me … Snuffle
Today I watched the Heathrow departures board, from the comfort of my desk, until I saw that the plane my parents were on had started to taxi down the runway. The Small Person and I then watched at the window to see the plane fly overhead – we are directly on the flight path from … I love the web
People vs. Peer “Ms. Ordinary” attempts to break the world record for charity fundraising (and to steal the glory from disgraced Peer Jeffrey Archer who is attempting to do the same)
Some comments made on Drew’s blog interest me. Doing a search on Google, the term ‘whitelist’ seems to be used almost always in terms of products that do some kind of filtering – such as that for spam. The words ‘white’ and ‘black’ don’t immediately make me think of race, they make me think of … whitelist/blacklist
The Red Cross have launched an appeal in order to send relief to victims of the earthquake in Iran. You can make a donation online in the UK or visit the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Page.
Bethlehem Media Net strives to be the “voice of the voiceless” bringing the stories of the Palestinian people and their religious communities to the web. Via Sojourners.
Today I got the results of the Open University Courses that I studied this last year – AD317 (Religion Today, Tradition, Modernity and Change) and A297 (Reading Classical Latin). I’m very happy to have got good passes for both subjects. I had convinced myself I had failed the Latin exam and was even looking at … Open University Results
“And the MD of all of this has set up a new publishing house – registered less than two months after the bankruptcy of Wrox – in the same industry, in a building once occupied by Wrox … “ Bruce Lawson, a former editor at Glasshaus which was part of Wrox Press and the company … Packt Publishing
“Every time you write an inappropriate selector, it makes the Baby Carolyn cry.” … congratulations on your new baby Eric, but with the amount of dodgy CSS out there, you’re going to be getting many sleepless nights 😉
I had a phonecall yesterday, “May I speak to Ms Test?” I replied that there wasn’t any Ms. Test here, and that this was edgeofmyseat.com…. and there was silence at the end of the line. When she explained where she was calling from, all was made clear, as this particular organisation have been sending me … Calling Ms. Test