newly

When I first read it, I though it was about Michael Bolton* or something

2012-01-19T07:43:00.000-08:00

Britain has been caught spying on Russia. Had a secret radio hidden in a fake rock*. The puns write themselves:

The spy world was rocked yesterday when it was revealed that Britain was spying on Russia via a radio hidden in some kind of small fake geologic deposit strategically positioned somewhere.

'We knew we were being spied upon, but how? And when told to find the hidden transmitter and leave no stone unturned, well.. Anyway, I noticed that one of the many rocks here in Russia was a bit lighter than the rest for its size, and also it was emitting a faint 'beep beep' sound. My commander said that despite my description of the thing it was probably not Sputnik, and that if I am getting unusually good reception on the rock radio station, then I should probably bring this little babushka in for look-see.' Now we are checking every brick in Moscow to be sure that each brick is indeed brick and not Eighties Nokia.'

Other Russian news sources say that 'British cannot be trusted. Their words are hollow. They are so very calculating. Get it? Calculating? That's the joke.'

News coming out of Italy has fallen silent about Rocks That are Not Supposed to Be There.

Talking rocks... Talking rocks... Where have I heard of.. Ah:

Great moments in Cardinals video clips

2011-12-23T17:03:00.000-08:00

Munich Christmas Markets

2011-12-16T08:14:00.000-08:00

NINETEEN NINETY-AWESOME

2011-11-30T18:50:00.000-08:00

How good is Faith No More?

Jim Martin solo over SNOW SPORTS, FAIRGROUND RIDES, SMALL MAMMALS FIGHTING AND A GREYHOUND RACE, PEOPLE!!!1111!!

0:53 is totally Miranda July And 2:30 is Natalia Yanchak, for the keen-eyed. Cool makes sense to me now OK.

To where?

2011-11-30T08:02:00.000-08:00

Direct translation of the names of some of Munich's U-Bahn stations

More cartographic goodness at bigthink strange maps

Dress rehearsal for the zombie apocalypse

2011-10-22T12:33:00.000-07:00

Zombie Amy Winehouse

Zombie Colonel Sanders

Zombie Darth Vader

Zombie Gaddafi

Zombie soldier

Pressing time

2011-10-18T12:38:00.000-07:00

I called up the co-op farm that pressed our apples for us last year. Their earliest available date was 27th October. They had a cider festival to organise, you see. Hurricanes several weeks ago off the coast of America translated to high winds in here in Sussex. Many apples fell from the tree because of this. If I wait for 27th October to harvest, I'll have little left on the tree, and rotten fruit on the ground. Iain and I pulled the apples from the tree, and I made a crude crusher with a door hinge.

MASH

Pulp.

2 hours later I had about 4 litres. The screws holding the hinge to the wood had started to pull out. Not good. There are some clever people on youtube with various mechanisms for crushing apples, some involving car jacks and frames and efficient-looking presses. My method was slow, tiring, inefficient and wasteful. In other words, in dire need of mechanisation

Cathedral, Mt Buffalo

2011-10-09T04:06:00.000-07:00

St Kilda Harbour

2011-10-09T04:03:00.001-07:00

clickable!

stopover in Brunei

2011-10-09T04:02:00.000-07:00

mm, you can really taste the umlauts

2011-09-10T11:43:00.000-07:00

Sometimes you get the impulse to cook stuff. This is (approaching) one of Pupienus Maximus' recipes

Meat left in a kind of brine for a few days.

And yes, I can make spaetzle. Just.

big party

2011-09-04T13:53:00.000-07:00

>told by housemate he has a gig on saturday
>turns out it's actually his girlfriend's 30th
>gig is to be held upstairs at a pub other side of town
>dress (up) as hipster cowboy. Girlfriend says 'hey, you're not allowed to look better than me'
>check bus routes. My local bus goes across town and stops almost right out side the pub. awwyeah.jpg
>get there right as this guy gets on stage
>next band does note-perfect cover of 'Burden in my hand'
>Lou gets on stage to sing. Gets handed GIANT Tardis cake, all sing 'Happy Birthday'
>
>wake up to find GIANT Tardis cake in the kitchen

Wine bottles and kettle on the right for size comparison

more on riots

2011-08-23T13:47:00.000-07:00

Melanie Phillips from Quadrant has a great article.

-quote:

(...) Harriet Harman, was on TV last night preposterously blaming cuts in educational allowances, of all things, for the fact that teenagers and pre-pubescent children have been torching and looting shops and robbing and murdering people in the streets. It was Harman, of course, who was one of the principal forces behind the promotion of lone parenthood and the marginalisation of fathers as the only progressive position.

short break, then back to wood carrying

2011-08-22T16:00:00.000-07:00

tsunami --> polar ice cap

2011-08-15T14:35:00.000-07:00

From Bad Astronomy:

Image of icebergs broken off the Antarctic ice shelf after the March 2011 tsunami. Apparently the large rectangular bit is about 11km across.

2011-08-11T16:14:00.001-07:00

good article at The Last Psychiatrist on internal validity. Internal validity means perpetuation.

Brits get some exercise and try their hand at a barbeque or two

2011-08-11T12:39:00.000-07:00

In response to

we get

Levelheadedness as always from Harry Hutton

I propose the SCARECHAV:

original content

Photoshop looter is quite funny.

There have been increases in funding for social services over the last few years. However, social workers report that 75% of their time is spent in filling in paperwork. Is this partially a sartorial phenomenon? A rioter in a mob wearing a mask and a hoodie is afforded a high degree of anonymity. Anonymity absolves one of responsibility. Interestingly, most people are being caught by being identified by CCTV footage. Your thoughts, Banksy?

I propose that large Police vans with big speakers on the roof that play some Vivaldi or Bach will do more to disperse the looters than using water cannons. See Footscray. My girlfriend disagrees, and cites the fact that her cats stop their naughty behaviour and disperse very quickly when she sets upon them with a water pistol. Strange days indeed when South Africa issues travel warnings for people heading to the UK.

I suppose the problem with being a journalist is that you constantly have to have a ready opinion on whatever. Explanations range from welfare dependence, social exclusion (whatever that means. Socially deprived? Deprived of society?), lack of positive male role models, spending cuts (wrong. £8 billion worth of wrong), weak policing, racism (No. seven of the last eight people shot by British police were white), consumerism, opportunism, and social networking. To me, the strongest facet here is opportunism. Afforded by anonymity (see ~~hoodie~~ facial coverings, crowds, and untraceable Blackberry messages)

Girlfriend asked 'does this happen is Australia?'

'Not really. But when it does, it happens in Cronulla. It is racially motivated, and the Anglos throw sausages at the Lebanese'.

This is a piece of footage that I found odd. Is she advocating a monetary increase in benefits such that a family (second parent present or absent.. not clarified) can live in comfort thanks to the grace of the government purely through the virtue of bearing x amount of offspring? Sounds like well, what else do you expect from a family of people who can't live in comfort purely on the government's benefits scheme? Riot ransom? 'Give me the benefits or I'll smash the windows of the electrical goods store!?'

Oh oh It's a very hostile environment around here

Oh oh It's the government's fault. It was good though.

I am tempted to draw false equivalences between Duggan's death and the woman who was shot in Victoria recently. 'Buildings in Tottenham and Croydon on fire? Ineffective police conduct? We're in the clear!' The more I think about it the more I get the notion that it was mostly opportunism that perpetuated the nights of crime. Not grievance.

Sunderland

2011-08-10T09:30:00.000-07:00

No riots here

Durham

2011-08-10T09:26:00.000-07:00

Picture is clickable for better resolution. No riots here.

Angel of the North

2011-08-10T09:17:00.001-07:00

Other signs that teh Donalde has misread

2011-08-05T07:58:00.000-07:00

ys ys ys

2011-08-05T04:50:00.001-07:00

This is what is must be like to be Donald 'can't read signs' Douglas

Some croquet in Ewhurst Green

2011-08-02T15:11:00.000-07:00

Formula student, Silverstone

2011-07-17T08:22:00.000-07:00

Here is a video of part of a lap done by the car built by Lancaster Uni. Ellie's brother James was in the construction / design team.

James and Ellie

Lancaster Uni Car

This is a car built by Uni of NSW / ADFA

Leaderboard for the sprint section. It has Munich at the top, but that is due to a timing error giving them a lap time of 0.12 seconds. An American team from Oregon State University (misspelled on the board) won the sprint section.

People with David Shrigley tattoos

2011-07-13T14:25:00.000-07:00

From

what a quote

2011-06-17T07:49:00.000-07:00

'...None of these options are particularly moral, realistic, or even a good idea, but they are options.'

Amsterdam

2011-06-16T14:22:00.001-07:00

Utrecht

2011-06-16T14:20:00.000-07:00

Cologne

2011-06-16T14:18:00.000-07:00

2011-06-15T13:09:00.000-07:00

Tree is pretty full

I forgot that I took a photo of this lamb shoulder

2011-06-14T11:09:00.001-07:00

Used for land-speed record attempt

Not used for land-speed record attempt.

2011-06-14T11:05:00.000-07:00

DB 601 engine. 33 Litre inverted V12. I had half a suspicion that the museum would have 1914 - 1945 FOOTAGE MISSING. But no, the displays were pretty up-front about Mercedes-Benz's role in manufacturing engines for warfare. The factories were prime targets for Allied bombing raids too.

2011-06-14T11:00:00.000-07:00

In the ledger books: Name: Sultan. Place of residence: Morocco.

The one behind was for Hirohito

The first three, Mercedes-Benz museum, Stuttgart

2011-06-14T10:44:00.000-07:00

After Mr Benz improved the reliability of the design of his one-cylinder gas powered engine, he promptly started installing them into various vehicles:

First engine - driven carriage. Automocar!

Marie, owned by Bismarck. First engine - driven boat.

The position of the lever in front of the engine determines how much power is delivered to the propeller underneath. This contraption would have hung from a large balloon.

2011-06-12T10:35:00.001-07:00

Kraftwerk Münster

2011-06-12T10:26:00.000-07:00

The large blue tank with the spiral steps had a grille surrounding it. Vines were growing on the grille.

Nuremberg

2011-06-12T04:25:00.000-07:00

Leipzig

2011-06-12T03:04:00.000-07:00

Buildings around the Rathaus square

This was taken in an exhibition about life in Communist East Germany. Sending pop / disco / hip hop cassettes over to the East was common. Towns near the border could pick up western TV and radio.

Soviet - era opera house with Ferris Wheel, Leipzig

2011-06-11T11:37:00.000-07:00

Herrenhausen Gardens, Hannover

2011-06-11T11:33:00.000-07:00

Also, the view from Google Earth

Well, my church has a pentagram on it, beat that

2011-06-11T11:27:00.000-07:00

Hannover

'Star-Wars' / 'Withnail and I' mashup - not bad

2011-05-30T14:23:00.000-07:00

ruh roh

2011-05-29T09:36:00.000-07:00

Apparently the closest that Katakana can give on 'Leipzig' is 'Raipuchi'. Also, Bach has a massive belt buckle that says 'BACH'.

with frickin' laser beams

2011-05-15T08:31:00.000-07:00

Ellie sailing!

2011-05-07T11:44:00.000-07:00

She nah too happy for camera nah

EL changes the word 'women' to 'footballers' in an article about Martin Amis' sister, posts it as story about Brendan Fevola converting to Islam.

2011-05-02T04:11:00.001-07:00

FevAllah said he had been crushed by the pressures he felt footballers had been subjected to ever since the idea of drinking before Brownlow nights became the norm.

Society was still dealing with the fallout, he said, but footballers usually fared worse than wombats/kitchen tables/dead batteries in the camera.

He said: "It's astonishingly difficult to find a decent deal between wombats/kitchen tables/dead batteries in the camera and footballers and we haven't found it yet."

While footballers enjoyed more freedom than they did before 1970, he said, they were also more liable to suffer from the pressures the media revolution exerted on them.

Brendan FevAllah could not cope with the socioeconomic liberation it granted him, said Amis, 60.

"He was pathologically promiscuous," he told the Richmond Book Now Festival.

"He really had the mental age of 12 or 13 and I think he was terrified. I think what he was doing was seeking protection from scrutiny, but it went the other way, he was often beaten up, abused and he simply used himself up."

In the 1980s he married a wine merchant twice his age but the union lasted only six months.

However, Amis attributed his demise not to individual circumstance but wider changes in society.

He said: "He did some stupid things at the age of 46, not of anything sudden; she was one of the most spectacular victims of the media revolution.

"It would have needed the Taliban to protect him."

He said he had used elements of his character for a new novel, The Pregnant Widow, which he described as "a tragicomedy with a cautionary tale running alongside the main story." It will be published next year.

2011-04-30T13:47:00.001-07:00

Royal wedding day preparations and celebrations

2011-04-29T11:46:00.000-07:00

Dan in Northiam's village hall.We played a gig outside.

Pete and Dan, having a break between sets.

Beatles covers not to play at a wedding gig

2011-04-24T17:57:00.000-07:00

I should have known better

I'm a loser

Yesterday

Help!

Hide your love away

The End

Apparently this is a selling point

2011-04-24T15:03:00.000-07:00

Right. As long as we're choosing odd names for wines..

Wolfmother Blass

Brown Note Brothers

Jacob's Freak

Oxford Crash Landing

Penfolds (and Danger Mouse's) Bin 311

De Portly

The Dears

2011-04-19T16:33:00.000-07:00

Keyboard Axe!

Fun in Guildford: 'Irish wrist watch'

2011-04-11T04:26:00.000-07:00

A media student at Univeristy of Surrey got some bands together so that he could make some recordings for his course-work.

and he nicely lent me this Fender Deluxe

Pete and Dan

George

My gear. Nathan's SG.

Harpsichord! They're popular

Pete's Casino

These are the vocal overdubs you can hear during the solo in Octopus's Garden.

2011-04-05T16:38:00.001-07:00

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

2011-03-30T07:31:00.000-07:00

FAIL

elbow

2011-03-27T16:25:00.000-07:00

Pointe de Voriaz, Fornet, Morgins

2011-03-26T09:18:00.000-07:00

'Yeah, yeah! Let's snowboard into Switzerland! We've got time to get there and back!'

Nice day for it

'The lifts are closed? No buses until 2:50pm?'

Morzine

2011-03-26T09:01:00.000-07:00

On Fukushima

2011-03-15T13:54:00.000-07:00

The nuclear disaster has got nothing on Chernobyl. Absolutely nothing. The Chernobyl reactor had no containment vessel, and coolant valves were jammed closed. Keep in mind that Soviet engineers had to don swimming suits and navigate the cooling pipes in order to re-open the coolant valves. Three engineers dived into the coolant pipes, one was holding a waterproof torch that failed halfway through the attempt. The engineers successfully re-opened the coolant valves by feel. All the while the water that they were swimming in was radiolysing into Hydrogen(g) and hydrogen peroxide(aq).

So reporters takling about the hydrogen footprint can sod off. They are so hot to talk about 'ZOMG RADIOASHUN 2 TEH PPLZ'.

Please give the elderly their vegetables. Please.

2011-03-12T15:49:00.000-08:00

Tuberosities

2011-03-01T06:48:00.000-08:00

Was thinking about using Fimo or Sculpey clay (the stuff that you mold and then put in the oven) but I had some old potatoes on top of the fridge.

Maybe another way to do it is to print an MRI on paper and trace out the slice profile of each bone onto a slice of potato, then 'reconstruct' them.

Looks like

Revolution across Muslim world spreads to Coburg

2011-02-26T05:19:00.000-08:00

Thousands of people demonstrated peacefully for political reform in the seat of Wills in Coburg and surrounds, and in Western suburbs on Friday, with opposition forces drawing the largest crowds since the weekly Friday protests began eight weeks ago. The opposition also expanded its demands.

CNN have made helpful little infographics here on their website to help people understand the delicate political situation developing outside Kozanoglu Pharmacy:

'We also demand that Kelvin Thompson resign. We have had enough of his shoddy leadership', protestor Marouf al-Bakhit of the 'Coburg is pretty all right' group exclaimed.

The BBC's John Simpson has this on Kelvin Thompson: "He's not without his supporters, they appear regularly on SBS TV. But the obedience and total silence he has imposed on the suburb as a whole have come to an end."

Wood

2011-02-16T17:47:00.001-08:00

Southampton

2011-02-16T17:44:00.000-08:00

Accident

2011-02-14T15:29:00.001-08:00

2011-02-05T11:07:00.000-08:00

A twitterer by the name of Nevine Zaky put this photo on yfrog with the caption 'Christians protecting Muslims during prayer'.

Around

2010-12-25T04:02:00.001-08:00

Carbon sequestration

2010-12-20T11:52:00.000-08:00

Seasonal variance.

Lots of talk on climate change. Lots of talk on atmospheric Carbon Dioxide concentration. Geosequestration of carbon dioxide seems like an expensive and tech-heavy operation.

One voice said 'Want to reduce carbon dioxide concentrations? Simple: plant lots of trees.'

Or, bamboo. Apparently eucalyptus is good, too.

Also good for sequestering Crouching tigers and Hidden dragons.

Carbon - hungry species versus potentially invasive plant. Does Australia have any native bamboo species? Would eucalyptus be a better, indigenous option?

Humphrey

2010-12-17T14:37:00.001-08:00

2010-12-14T15:04:00.000-08:00

memebase.com comments policy:

'Moderators reserve the right to replace swears with whatever word amuses them at the time.'

Leak! the musical

2010-12-14T14:34:00.000-08:00

[Julian Assange]
Swedish lovin' had me a blast

[Anna Ardin]
Swedish lovin' happened so fast

[Julian Assange]
I met a girl crazy for me

[Anna Ardin]
Met a boy cute as can be

[Both]
Swedish days driftin' away, to uh-oh those Swedish nights

[Media Scrum]
Uh Well-a well-a well-a huh

[Swedish Prosecution]
Tell me more, tell me more

[Assange's lawyer Mark Stephens]
Why is your hair so white?

[feministing.com]
Tell me more, tell me more

[Marty]
Does he have a website?

[Media Scrum]
Uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh

[Julian Assange]
She swam by me, she got a cramp

[Anna Ardin]
He ran by me, got my suit damp

[Julian Assange]
I saved her life, she nearly drowned

[Anna Ardin]
He showed off, splashing around

[Both]
Swedish sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those Swedish nights

[Media Scrum]
Uh well-a well-a well-a huh

[feministing.com]
Tell me more, tell me more

[Frenchy]
Was it love at first sight?

[Swedish Prosecution]
Tell me more, tell me more

[Kenickie]
Did she put up a fight?

[Media Scrum]
Uh-huh-uh-huh-uh-huh-uh-huh

[Julian Assange]
She took me home, I had a condom

[Anna Ardin]
We had sex, it was lagom

[Julian Assange]
We made out under the dock

[Anna Ardin]
We stayed out 'till ten o'clock

[Both]
Swedish fling, don't mean a thing, but uh-oh those Swedish nights

[Media Scrum]
Uh well-a well-a well-a huh

[Swedish Prosecution]
Tell me more, tell me more

[Putzie]
But you don't gotta brag

[feministing.com]
Tell me more, tell me more

[Rizzo]
Cos he sounds like a drag

[Media Scrum]
shoo-bop bop, shoo-bop bop, shoo-bop bop,shoo-bop bop, shoo-bop bop, shoo-bop bop, shoo-bop bop, YEH

[Anna Ardin]
He got friendly, holding my hand

[Julian Assange]
While she got friendly down in the sand

[Anna Ardin]
He was sweet, just turned thirty - four

[Julian Assange]
Well she was good, she was quite the (rhymes with four)

[Media Scrum]
Woah!

[Both]
Swedish heat, boy and girl meet, but uh-oh those Swedish nights

[Media Scrum]
woo, woo, woo

[feministing.com]
Tell me more, tell me more

[ Jan]
How much dough did he spend?

[Swedish Prosecution]
Tell me more, tell me more

[Sonny]
Could she get me a friend?

[Anna Ardin]
It turned colder - that's where it ends

[Julian Assange]
So I told her we'd still be friends

[Anna Ardin]
Then we made our true love vow

[Julian Assange]
Wonder what she's doing now

[Both]
Swedish dreams ripped at the seams, (THIS FIGURE OF SPEECH IS IN THE ORIGINAL LYRICS, PEOPLE)
bu-ut oh, those su-ummer nights....

[Media Scrum]
Tell me more, tell me more!

Candling

2010-12-06T16:09:00.000-08:00

Sent by Steve, candling on Main Ridge. Backburning to reduce forest fuel in the even of a bushfire

It's not the Reformation

2010-12-06T09:53:00.000-08:00

Right, so Julian Assange is being accused of ~~rape~~ molestation by two Swedish women. Apparently based on a Swedish law that forbids condomless sex. From In Mala Fide:

According to Newsweek, the basis of the rape charge was not actual rape, but Assange’s violation of a Swedish law that forbids condomless sex:

Borgstrom said that specific details about the the allegations had not yet appeared in Swedish media. But he acknowledged that the principal concern the women had about Assange’s behavior—which they reported to police in person—related to his lack of interest in using condoms and his refusal to undergo testing, at the women’s request, for sexually transmitted disease. A detailed, chronological account of the women’s alleged encounters with Assange—which in both cases began with consensual sexual contact but later included what the women claimed was nonconsensual sex, in which Assange didn’t use a condom—was published on Tuesday by The Guardian; a Declassified item included a more explicit reference than The Guardian to Assange’s declining to submit to medical tests.

From the Daily Mail

According to a police source: ‘They had a discussion and decided it would be OK to share the living space, then went out together for dinner.

‘When they got back they had sexual relations, but there was a problem with the condom – it had split.

‘She seemed to think that he had done this deliberately but he insisted that it was an accident.’

Assange apparently said 'Uh, the condom leaked?' Ms Ardin went to the hospital to go get checked out for STDs, and remarked 'that's not what I meant when I said I wasn't starting a smear campaign'.

A Pentagon spokesman said 'Damn you, Julian Assange and your Wikileaks website. Nobody is allowed to leak the names of our CIA operatives but us!'

Which brings me around to a subjunctive conversation I was having with my housemate today. He had just gotten over a cold and had some energy back. He was enthusiastically cooking some potatoes 'Gonna bke some potatoes, yeah! Gonna stick 'em in the microwave for five minutes!'

'For five minutes! Then whatcha gonna do?'

'Gonna bake 'em, yeah!'

Later on I said he should open a baked potato - selling table down on the main street. Right out front of my Insurance office where I explain insurance policy offers and adjustments in Randy Newman style meter:

Gonna adjust your insurance,
You're travellin' to Sweden,
in the hapless event
of condom breakage
insurance is something
you'll be needin'.

'cause if you're drivin' in your car,
and the tyre burst,
You got car insurance,
so you don't come off worst.

You don't want them to able to jail ya,
Due to a manufacturer's failure.

-cheesy piano obligato-

Despatches from Garstang

2010-12-05T08:15:00.000-08:00

Horse yard

Around our place

2010-12-05T03:49:00.000-08:00

Insanity Wolf says

2010-12-02T05:23:00.000-08:00

Brighton

2010-12-02T01:49:00.000-08:00

St Peter's church

We tried driving at first

2010-12-01T17:53:00.000-08:00

Charles and I walked to Amy's place after deciding that it was too snowy to drive

Left a nice warm fire to go out

Charles; we had a few beers on the way

Mildred looking guilty for drinking from the basin

More despatches from Scotland

2010-11-29T06:20:00.000-08:00

Roads closed

Meanwhile in Scotland

2010-11-28T03:51:00.000-08:00

Snowman wearing the InHealth company jacket

Pictures sent from Dundee

2010-11-27T09:37:00.001-08:00

Morning Mr Strauss, what's for breakfast?

2010-11-25T15:03:00.001-08:00

Southampton

Lakes District

2010-11-25T15:01:00.001-08:00

Lakes District

2010-11-25T14:51:00.000-08:00

Ellie on Lake Windemere

Nerd alert: Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope

2010-11-25T14:47:00.000-08:00

Bust of Copernicus there

The radio telescope is mounted on circular rails. The tilt mechanism (best seen at the bottom of the middle arcs in the first picture) were taken from the 15-inch gun turrets of dismantled battleships Royal Sovereign and Revenge. The entire structure was built by Sheffield bridge engineers. Apparently the problems of budget blow-out were soon forgotten when Jodrell Bank intercepted the radio echo of the Ballistic missile that the Soviets used to put Sputnik into space.

2010-11-25T14:30:00.001-08:00

On the English North - South cultural divide: Korea has nothing.

Kim Jong Il on his day off

Siddle!

2010-11-25T05:21:00.000-08:00

Cook

Prior

Broad!

2010-11-16T14:11:00.001-08:00

Quick thought: New Victorian number plates:

UGO 822
Victoria: You're in a right state!

from crapgraffiti.com

2010-11-07T09:19:00.001-08:00

Apparently someone wrote almost the entire Star Wars script here

At the dog track

2010-11-07T07:33:00.001-08:00

Stuff Simon didn't want to drag to his new house

2010-11-07T07:31:00.000-08:00

Then Marley helped us move

2010-11-07T06:11:00.001-08:00

Pretty good sign from the rally to Restore Sanity and / or Fear

Dorchester

2010-11-01T10:17:00.001-07:00

Cranborne

2010-10-29T05:13:00.000-07:00

Winchester

2010-10-28T05:41:00.000-07:00

Colleague Janet in front of the scanner in Winchester

2010-10-27T02:30:00.000-07:00

Krzysztof, Pawan and I went to a symposium put on by General Electric. Was pretty good

Early morning stuff

2010-10-25T15:00:00.000-07:00

Driving behind the National Express bus from Brighton at 61 mph, doing 4.22 L/100km.

Frimley Business Park at 6:30am

Friendly advice for Mr Rooney

2010-10-24T10:23:00.000-07:00

'Join City and you're dead'. I for one commend the grammatically correct contraction of 'you are', and correct placement of the apostrophe. Not any easy thing to do when you're (!) keeping one eye out for police. Café blackboard writers, take note.

East Anglia

2010-10-24T09:14:00.000-07:00

Clay target shooters

Was a nice day so I thought I cloud trudge my way through the fields to the coast. Could I get there? At the risk of slipping into cold cold mud and getting mud - prints on my bum even after taking my boots off, no. Fail.

Hence the tracks on the tractor

Local shooter

Lost (or gained?) in translation

2010-10-24T09:00:00.000-07:00

So after a few pints of Old Peculiar I walks into this Baptist church on Oundle Rd...

And there's this Portuguese music goin' on

Whoa! Heh heh heh heh

Peterborough: Unfair photojournalism

2010-10-24T08:43:00.000-07:00