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Tuesday, 5th May 2009
Mail policy
In the past few weeks I’ve been receiving much more spam than I used to on most of the mail servers which I use. I guess a new botnet has come online or something. (…)
Posted 5 May 2009, 07:10
Sunday, 22nd February 2009
Binyam Mohamed returning home
It looks as if Binyam Mohamed, one of the last British residents in the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison camp, is finally to return the UK tomorrow or soon after. (…)
Posted 22 February 2009, 18:17
Saturday, 31st January 2009
Tweeting on Twitter
I’ve set myself up with a Twitter account largely to see whether I can see what use it is (which can include simply being pure fun). I’m at http://twitter.com/petergaunt if anyone’s feels like following me. Assuming there’s anything to follow of course. (…)
Posted 31 January 2009, 18:25
Tuesday, 27th January 2009
David Attenborough gets hate mail
Possibly the last person in Britain you’d expect to be getting hate mail is David Attenborough but it seems there are creationists out there who can’t leave him alone. (…)
Posted 27 January 2009, 23:00
Tuesday, 20th January 2009
No Bush!
Bush is gone! No Bush! Perhaps even more important, No Cheney and No Rice. Nuff said.
Posted 20 January 2009, 17:09
Thursday, 20th November 2008
Getting it in the neck
I find it delicious that after years in which some of its members have, for their own amusement, published the names, addresses and phone numbers of people they don’t like on fascist web sites the British National Party (BNP) has had the same thing happen to them; in spades. (…)
Posted 20 November 2008, 01:51
Monday, 3rd November 2008
Religion can make you inhuman
Religions, at least the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, usually profess that one of the main reasons for their existence is to ensure that their followers lead good, wholesome and above all moral lives. Many of their devotees go so far as to insist that unless you follow their particular brand of devotion you will be forever condemned to torment in hell. Unfortunately, these same beliefs can also lead some to commit particularly inhuman acts which they are completely convinced (…)
Posted 3 November 2008, 23:23
Saturday, 1st November 2008
Out of office
I really like this somewhat daft story about a bilingual road sign in Swansea, Wales. Road signs in Wales use both Welsh and English to get their message across and the local council wanted to put up a ‘No Entry to heavy goods vehicles’ sign on a road near a supermarket. (…)
Posted 1 November 2008, 12:31
Monday, 6th October 2008
Religion can make you unhinged
If you need proof that religion can lead you to become seriously unhinged you need look no further than the Saudi cleric Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan who has proposed on the al-Majd satellite channel that women who wear the niqab should expose only one eye instead of both. (…)
Posted 6 October 2008, 22:31
Saturday, 6th September 2008
Bikeless in London
Aarrgghh! For the first time in at least nine years, and only the second time since 1982 so far as I can recall, I am without my bicycle. (…)
Posted 6 September 2008, 17:45
Friday, 11th July 2008
Jesus kidnapped
In what has to be one of the most wonderful examples I have ever come across illustrating the basic insanity of religion a student in Florida has effectively been accused of kidnapping Jesus Christ. (…)
Posted 11 July 2008, 23:35
Wednesday, 9th July 2008
Israeli hypocrisy
Have I got this right? Israel objects to Iran testing its missiles yet Israel itself is OK having actual, real, viable, capable-of-going-boom nuclear warheads? Is that right? The world really is completely barmy, is it not? (…)
Posted 9 July 2008, 22:17
Sunday, 25th May 2008
I have a cunning plan
I kind of like the story of Saeed Ghafoor who, whilst in a Cumbrian jail, is alleged to have confessed to a prison officer that he was planning on blowing up the Bluewater shopping centre in Exeter. When another officer pointed out to Ghafoor that the Bluewater shopping centre is, in fact, in Kent he is said to have replied ‘The plan is not finalised yet.’
Posted 25 May 2008, 11:25
Saturday, 3rd May 2008
Oh no, it’s Boris
Technically Boris Johnson, who has just been elected Mayor of London, cannot be an idiot; ‘idiot’ is an archaic medical term referring to someone with very low intelligence and I am sure that Boris has a reasonable level, the problem really being that he does not ever seem to have learned how to use it. He is prone to gaffes and apparently racist and insensitive statements about whole groups of people and even entire cities. Rather than referring to him as an idiot I think it is probably best to (…)
Posted 3 May 2008, 08:11
Sunday, 30th March 2008
Farewell to Neo
Yesterday, after a hell of a lot of heartbreak, I took my cat Neo to the vet to have him put to sleep. At the moment I am inconsolable and keep bursting into tears. He had been my pal and constant companion for eight years. Now I feel as if a piece has been ripped out of my life and I can’t find anything to fill the hole. If there is an afterlife for cats then I hope he’s chasing birds and having a whale of a time. (…)
Posted 30 March 2008, 10:22
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