Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Life Stuff’ Category
Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood and other Time Travelling Adventures
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Another Saturday night, another episode of Doctor Who using one of the classic Doctor Who styles: Doctor and assistant run around chased by guards while the story unfolds. Fortunately there were none of the shaky sets that used to come with those stories in the old days and even better none of the bad green […]
My Second Favourite Onion Story of All Time
Sunday, April 13th, 2008My favourite Onion article of all time has to be Starbucks To Begin Sinister ‘Phase Two’ Of Operation. As of tonight I’ve a second place favourite: Novelists Strike Fails To Affect Nation Whatsoever.
The Only Way is Up?
Monday, March 24th, 2008Just which up would that be? Hopefully you wern’t looking for the lyrics to a 1988 hit by Yazz and the Plastic Population and thought the title included punctuation. If you were I hope you’ll accept my appologies and leave quiety back to google or whatever search engine sent you here… I’ve spent part of […]
Arthur C. Clarke
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I’m an avid reader althought I don’t find the time I used to lose myself in a good book. However there were only a small number of writers whose complete works I read in my youth, amongst them: Asimov, Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Harry Harrison and C.S. Forester. With the sad passing today of Arthur C. […]
Did the Cliche Move for You?
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008I wouldn’t be up this late but I’ve not been well and I can’t sleep. I was just doing the final rounds of checking on the flat when the whole building shook. At first I thought it was a Fire Engine going past outside at speed but from the way my inner ear was acting […]
Today I've mostly been looking at Moodle…
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008I don’t usually blog about work but today I’ve mostly been looking at Moodle. On the surface a pretty nifty e-learning solution with an extensive set of tools for building an online community. Another one to keep in the armoury of useful, open source solutions.
If the BBC Journalist Fall for it I will too
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008I have to congratulate Ryan Air’s marketing department. One very cheap looking advert designed to offend and attract attention and they get it all over the BBC news and web site for free. It’s not the first time one of these ads has gotten on to the BBC. Twelve people complained about the advert. I […]
Happy New Year
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Happy New Year from Liverpool Capital of Culture 2008
Happy Christmas!
Monday, December 24th, 2007Have a very happy Christmas.
Bad Business uses Bad Science to excuse Bad Practices
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007This story appeared on the BBC web site today Green light for long-haul scampi? but it fails to answer the question in the title. The problem with it is that there are other interpretation that can be drawn from the information provided: Even more enviromentally friendly would be scampi hand processed in the UK. This […]