I love my bank in the UK. I love that they’re an online bank, but part of The Co-Operative Bank, and so governed by the Co-Op’s Ethical Policy. I love that I can be happy that my money’s not being used to support industries or regimes engaged in practices I don’t approve of. I love [...]
We do this thing in the office here where we take it in turns on Fridays to have an iPod Day. The person whose day it is creates a playlist from their iTunes library and plays it over the internal system, giving us all;
a) exposure to music we might not know about otherwise, and
b) a [...]
The next few catch up postings are all going to be written (though obviously not posted) on a plane. They may get progressively less coherent.
So I’m on a Virgin Atlantic flight back to London, and have had a slightly mental week getting everything done I needed to do before leaving. Work suddenly turned even more [...]
Due to the visa restrictions on The Mrs (and I don’t think I ever wrote about that in detail - so the basics are that because US law doesn’t recognise our marriage, he can’t have the kind of visa that a wife of mine could. Don’t get me started on this one - I could [...]
I’m not sure I’ve ever talked about being asthmatic on my blogs before, because most of the time it’s not really an issue. It came on about twelve years ago with no warning but a horrendous attack which led to me being taken to Casualty. Since then I’ve mostly managed it with inhalers, and if [...]
Because I certainly am - I’m sick of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Yammer and all the rest. It drives me mad how much time apparently rational adults devote to communicating with their friends through those channels rather than just, you know, communicating with their friends.
One of the people I work with had a minor brain scream [...]
Yesterday was President’s Day, and therefore a holiday here in the US. Fortunately we went into the long weekend with no specific plan, but a “let’s play it by ear’ attitude, so no grand designs were ruined by the three days of pretty much continuous (except when it was hailing) rain. Seriously - non-stop, heavy, don’t-even-think-about-coming-out-here rain [...]
This morning, as I headed into work, the Muni train came past me while I was about a block from the stop. I sprinted to catch it, and was within reach when the driver (who must have been able to see me) shut the doors and headed off. Many dark and bad words filled my [...]
I received two separate emails with very similar subject lines today. One was from a UK department store chain, advertising Christmas present suggestions. The other was promoting a product designed to enhance certain … activities.
With the two sitting side by side in my inbox, I suddenly realised how for once I couldn’t wholly blame [...]
The side effect of listening to the soundtrack of Were The World Mine, which as I noted contains a lot of lines from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is that now I have a yen to read the play for the first time in yonks.
I must hie me to Borders.
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Jul | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | ||||
