For some years now I have become somewhat renowned amongst my friends for my insatiable taste for down-tempo, laid-back chillout music. Indeed an evening at Two Wolves Towers is as good as guaranteed to be set to a score of electro-jazz, house and world music washed down with a few glasses of ice-chilled Sancerre. Its [...]
As those of you who take an interest in the global financial markets will be aware, the last week or so on the world’s stock markets has been unusually volatile in a mostly downward direction. The question now on everyone’s lips is of course “when or where will it end?” or “should we worry about [...]
There has been many column inches dedicated to the subject of falling birth-rates in Europe over the last few months, it seems these days we are too selfish to face the sacrifices required to breed, so this film comes as a timely reminder that in the natural world there are creatures that are prepared to [...]
That would be Linux* of course.
Tristan at ShellyTheRepublican.com explains :
“Like all the greatest American engineering, it’s an example of innovation that makes a growing group of European and Chinese hackers jealous. They hate our lead in computing technology and will stop at nothing until they have control of all of our computers.”
And continues thus :
“And [...]
Finally the government has released its long awaited report on the London Bombings of 2005 and I think I would not be alone in saying that it makes quite unsatisfactory reading as it really doesn’t tell Londoners anything that they didn’t already know and leaves many questions unanswered.
It was a few days prior to [...]
Baying Gordon Brown
Baying Mechanical Elephant
It was Sunday lunchtime when we got a call from Liza insisting we join her in Piccadilly to see French street theatre company Royal de Luxe and their Sultan’s Elephant show, so seeing as it was good weather we jumped onto the bike and headed into town to join her. It [...]
The BBC have released an interview with British hacker Gary McKinnon who for a number of years managed to access computers at NASA and American Military installations in his search for information relating to the reverse engineering of extra-terrestrial UFO technology in order to make antigravity powered aircraft.
For his crimes he is now facing extradition [...]
Its been an unusually warm day today. Naturally true to form the tube was delayed on the way home as supposedly the rails were buckling under the heat but nobody owned up to accidentally fitting chocholate rails during the refit. As I walked home from the tube station the powerful aroma of the flowering trees [...]
