A couple of years ago I started a Twitter account. I didn’t really want to (as documented here) but I did (as documented here). In July ‘07, I used Twitter to track my progress over 100km during the Oxfam Trailwalker. That can be seen here. Note that there are only 8 tweets. I didn’t even [...]
Category > Musings
Hubris
I should probably be nicer about these films seeing as I’m spending an awful lot of time working on stuff like this at the moment. But, as I am not currently a film professional or a publised/screened author, so what? It might come back to bite me in the future but hey, if [...]
Paradox of hate
A couple of days ago, were were discussing writing CVs. A colleague (let’s call him Dick) was asking whether or not he should include a photo on his CV. I commented that I’d never seen a photo on a CV and would never consider including one. It’s not necessary in our line [...]
Standards
It’s only my opinion but I think it says a lot about the attitude and disposition of a company when the freevend coffee machine has “Choco Crème” as a label rather than the usual “Creamichoc”.
Nonsense on stilts
I watched a little bit of Question Time last night. The first topic up for debate concerned the anti-smoking bill (or, rather, the okay-smoke-if-you-want-to-but-we’d-prefer-it-if-you-didn’t bill.) What surprised and, ultimately, irritated me was the audiences constant referral to peoples “rights”. One non-smoker said he recognised that smokers “have a right” to smoke while [...]
A communications disruption can mean only one thing…
Why would an alien intelligence invade our humble green and blue planet? It’s been bugging me for a while now and with one of this years summer blockbusters being a modern adaptation of H.G. Well’s original and classic tale, it’s a question that’s starting to keep me up at night. Okay, so that’s [...]