November 30, 2004
Matt the Gardener
The theory goes that if you start a sentence and keep going without stopping that eventually you must come to a good idea or a full stop. I bumped into Matt last night who must have come to a full stop on his Geek Gardener website as nothing has been updated since September. He blames the weather. I notice the site also refers to his Fiancée Nancy which can't be right as he married her recently. Ahh well you can't trust anything you read on the Web can you?
February 15, 2004
Labels
I don't think it's right to label people. However, if they want to do it themselves then that's up to them.
February 01, 2004
Hutton is a Hero
That is not a headline you are likely to see currently, but I ask you to pause for a moment and consider the following:
Hutton is a judge. Judges support Governments and loathe journalists. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that his report into the Dr Kelly death was biased heavily towards the Blair Government. A whitewash in fact. The Independent newspaper had a glorious front page which was 90% white paper highlighting this.
The problem that most of us have with this is that we know certain facts:
1. The Government puts spin on it's actions
2. At the centre of this affair is the Government's ex spinmeister extraordinaire, Alistair Campbell
3. The Government are far from blameless and have not come up with a reason why they went to war on a false premise. The dossier was sexed up - it was spin.
So that leaves Lord Hutton in a difficult situation. And he has come up with a master plan! He has produced a document so thick with whitewash that it is not credible. Therefore, all right minded people have dismissed it as such. Wonderful! He has stayed loyal to his roots, he knows his position in The System, and yet he has masterfully turned the tables and remained, apparently, faithful and loyal to all.
According to DIY experts, when putting on whitewash you have to put it on quite thinly for it to have a lasting effect. Lavish it on too thickly and it very quickly starts to flake off revealing the original mess and leaving things looking far worse than if they had not been touched.
A round of applause, if you please, for Lord Hutton.
December 26, 2003
Chicken and Egg
Which came first? This railing is a long way from a road so who bothered to carry it here? The tree that has grown around it must be 10 years old I'd say but the railings look like they were painted more recently.
December 24, 2003
Rose bowl
Through the round window today. They don't make windows like this any more. I'll have to traipse across town to check out the building later.
September 12, 2003
We want your soul
The theory is that your soul has a cash value depending on an indepth analysis of your psyche e.g. do you eat McDonalds or go to BlockBuster Video and so on. My soul is worth £11,920 and 71% of people have a purer sould than me. Go and try it for yourself and post your results here.
Soul extraction is painless so don't worry!
July 08, 2003
Transience
This is only a passing phase. Or is it a passing phrase? I'll get through it though. See what difference that one letter makes? In this instance is the letter 'r'. I used to watch Sesame Street and they taught me the alphabet and how to count. The trouble is I get tunes in my head now every time I count to 9. Or is that tuners? Ase.
June 26, 2003
Word jiggery
So jiggery is not so different to buggery. In fact if you rearrange the first 2 letters you get bi and ju but the ending is just the same. Poetic justice. It's a bit like: I see that pedant having ic in the middle making pedicant which somehow seems right. You have to be over 21 to look up that word.
There must be many more like the above. Contribuitions welcome.
June 10, 2003
Blog
What's in a word? Everything I say. Blog. It's like bog. The marshy type thing. The thing that slows you down and gets in the way. It may as well be Bleurgh which is a word Charles Schulz used in his Peanuts cartoons. Snoopy. That's a better word. Not sure what it stands for but this is no longer my Blog but my Snoopy.
May 17, 2003
Colour
Colour is best. Black and white is grey and drab. I like being decisive.
May 12, 2003
Black and White
Everything is black and white. It's a binary world hence there are no pictures in this blog. There is an infinite number of variations in a chess game so life is complex enough without adding colour. You just ask John Major as he knows because grey is allowed. Gray isn't allowed as that is the American spelling.