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Tuesday, 24th November 2009
Stop Murdoch
Stop Murdoch! Stop him from what? Dunno. Just stop him before he and his family complete their takeover of the entire planet.
Posted 24 November 2009, 15:34
Sunday, 15th November 2009
Death in Genesis
Answers in Genesis, always an interesting site to read if you’d like to remind yourself just where sticking your head either in the sand or up your bum can lead you, has an answer to a question from ‘a reader’ (identified only as M.H.) who asks the seemingly simple question: is it ever acceptable to lie? The example which M.H. gives is if the Nazis are looking for Jews, and you know where they are, it would not be wrong to lie, in order to protect them, nor would this be bearing false witness “against” (…)
Posted 15 November 2009, 02:34
Monday, 5th October 2009
31 years later
I thought I’d have a go at redoing a picture I took of myself in 1978. All I can say is ‘Blimey! What happened?’. (…)
Posted 5 October 2009, 01:55
Saturday, 8th August 2009
Bad news day
Must be a bad day for news. The BBC is reporting not that the head of the Metropolitan police has died after being knocked of his bike nor that his daughter has been killed after being knocked off her bike. No, they’re reporting that the head of the Metropolitan police’s daughter’s boyfriend has been killed after being knocked off his bike. While I’m sure that this is of great concern to the boyfriend’s family and friends just why does the Beeb think that the rest of us will be even remotely interested? (…)
Posted 8 August 2009, 22:53
Thursday, 30th July 2009
Handheld stylesheet
For a number of years now this site has been sending out a stylesheet for handheld devices which most users will not even have been aware of. The idea is that browsers on mobile phones and similar devices will use this sheet in preference to the main stylesheet which is really intended for desktops and laptops with larger screens. The trouble is that whether this stylesheet is used depends on the browser recognising that it’s there and then interpreting it properly. The only browsers I know of which (…)
Posted 30 July 2009, 20:27
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
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