Last night, when I tried to upload and view my new King’s Cross photos with Flickr, I found it was having very nasty problems. Most of my images appeared broken; most of others’ appeared broken, too. I began to wonder if all my photos had been wiped from one of their drives. Browsing the help [...]
Two photos from my journey back last night, following a second day of bombs and evacuations. At only a quarter past nine in the evening King’s Cross was remarkably empty.
Tags: kingscross, london, underground, terrorism
Each of three British soldiers is facing a court martial for alleged war crimes in Iraq. The Guardian says it is “right that [this procedure] should be used without hesitation if and when appropriate”, while the Telegraph disagrees, saying one “must not apply the standards of the more salubrious parts of Islington to the streets [...]
Among other things, while in Chichester I was forcibly introduced to Country, county, town — a word game which, I’ve discovered, opens up many new word games.
The name has long put me off, as it evokes geography, geography and geography, none of which I enjoyed at school. The rules go like this:
A group of you [...]
I’ve just spent an extended weekend with Anna seeing some of her family on a holiday in Chichester. Here are the photos of general interest — flowers, Roman mosaics, that sort of thing. Enjoy.
Tags: chichester, holiday, photos
In recent months we may have inadvertently given the impression that Internet Explorer 6 was a reasonably acceptable browser, and that any problems that users might have had reading this blog were entirely limited to their own PC.
Headlines such as “Four eggs in a box”, “A morning without Today” and “How Royal Mail did it” [...]
The Daily Mail informs me that
The London terror gang used the same highly-volatile explosives as shoe-bomber Richard Reid, it has emerged. [...] It is often used by Al Qaeda operatives, who call it The Mother of Satan.
This is not a widely reported name. Google reports only four pages which mention both “acetone peroxide” and “mother [...]
Oh, this is a hilarious analysis of the writing of Dan Brown, he of The Da Vinci Code:
I guess by now a watching anthropologist or psychologist would claim to have overwhelming behavioral evidence that Dan Brown is my favorite novelist for summer reading. And indeed, my latest Dan Brown adventure, Deception Point, really rips along [...]
I know, I know, I really should get a life. But I saw this today and, well, that’s it, really. Thousands wouldn’t have.
Suddenly the work behind the newspaper comes to life. Late last night a layout person says, “Well, I’ll just copy this whole thing into there, and I’ll highlight the subheading, click Helvetica[*]…” But [...]
I saw the remembrance garden at King’s Cross today for the first time. Whereas the events of last Thursday were shocking, this is something I found very sad.
The two minute silence today was rather surreal in the way it happened. In the street outside my office everyone seemed to know the moment to be quiet, [...]
