Blog Archive — Page 36
These are some pretty old posts! If they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can skip to more recent entries or head back to the homepage to see some more up-to-date stuff.
These are some pretty old posts! If they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can skip to more recent entries or head back to the homepage to see some more up-to-date stuff.
Somehow, against all odds, a party we threw in June of 2005 to celebrate the graduation of Racheet and Andy turned into a regular yearly event. This, for spaffy self-indulgent reasons, is its history. RABIES, a horrible backronym of “Racheet and Andy’s Big Incredible Extravaganza of Summertime”, came at what...
I guess it’s funny who you do and who you don’t stay in touch with. After all this time I’m still partying with people whose time at Uni didn’t even intersect with mine, but yet I see my best friends maybe once a year at most. And of the three...
I returned to my hotel at half past ten last night, having drunk just enough Kräuser to make Labskaus palatable, to find a Giant Smug Cameron Face grinning at me from a lectern outside 10 Downing Street. “The Queen has asked me to form a new government,” he began, and...
For any of you wanting a reason to be in A&E; by 6am tomorrow, we proudly present: the Election Results Drinking Game! Simply tune in to a live broadcast of your choice by 10pm tonight, and… Every time the Labour party wins a seat, take a sip of Aftershock. Every...
In case you aren’t aware, my political views are rather towards the Left end of the spectrum, to the extent that while I’m not sure I’d fully commit to the label ‘Socialist’, I’m certainly not far off. I make no secret, however, of being a Liberal Democrat supporter, and indeed...
I’ve been an advocate of opening up our democracy and involving the public in government decision-making for some time, without doing anything particularly concrete about it besides placing my vote. The Digital Economy Bill fiasco showed us that, really, we’re not involved with the day-to-day workings of government at all,...
Tomorrow is St George’s Day, a day of… frankly nothing, in honour of England’s dubious patron saint. Whereas St Andrew’s Day is at least a holiday for the Scots, and the Irish St Patrick’s Day has been exported all over the world as a celebration of stout and silly hats,...
From the team that brought you AutoMouse comes a revolution in heat-sink technology that you can recreate in your own home! You will need: A block of metal with holes in (burring optional but entirely reccommended) About 3 gallons of thermal paste Rubber bands Simply affix to your hot components...
The morning began with a blaze of contrails across the sky, traces of the early flights to far-off lands. With them came a sense that pent-up tension is being slowly released into the atmosphere, this time the tension of humanity and holidays and business, rather than that of rock and...
This HOWTO is in the public domain. You are free to re-post it wherever and however you like, though a link back here would be appreciated. I’ve recently had the unfavourable job of converting some 400 posts on my WordPress-powered site into pages. I’d been putting this off for a...