April 30, 2003
UPDATE - here we go again. Can anyone advise me about a) Moveable Type b) getting a domain and c) getting hosted? Cos now I'm really PISSED OFF. A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw :...
The Memory Hole > Doctored Photo from London Evening Standard I didn't know about this. I'm always a bit late catching on. It appears the "Jubilation on the streets of Baghdad" was lacking a certain je ne sait quois so...
Ethelbert E Kari comes from Degema in Rivers State, Nigeria, which as well as a place is a language spoken by about 10,000 people. There are 22 other languages spoken in Rivers State - Degema is classified as a minority...
Yesterday I waxed lyrical about the new time zone map provided by the excellent Reinvigorate stats service. Today I see Tom Coates of plasticbag has similarly posted his own map. What I find interesting is that he has comparatively few...
Thanks to plep I no longer have to scour the net for answers to such questions as who am I? what is my identity? do I, in fact, exist at all? Having found the answers, I now need to know...
April 29, 2003
Here's a poem and some honesty. Such a wonderful plant, blooming early, and in autumn if you pick the dried stalks of sere, silvery seed pods the promise of spring lasts through the winter. Seed The first warm day of...
80 Million Bees Released In Fatal Crash Interstate 95 was closed for more than six hours while workers attempted to corral the bees and officials worked to clear the wreckage and scoop up the honey that had spilled....
Nutritional Value of Various Insects per 100 grams...
Yesterday in a cafe I overheard a group of apparently well-informed men somberly discussing how SARS is "worse than Aids". The media hype must really be getting into top gear. For an excellent picture of how lethal SARS is in...
This feature has just been added to my stats service, which makes it now not just interesting but compulsive viewing. And it's free! Reinvigorate rules/rocks/really is rather good, don't you know old egg. I presume the programme gets its...
April 28, 2003
Here's a niche language resource if ever I saw one... Translating cactus descriptions - Part 1, A to L...
It feels like I can't pass a television without seeing those iconic images of the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. Etched on the collective visual cortex no doubt. But hold on, zoom out a bit and...
One is an African head of state, the other only pretends to be one. I only mention the above in passing, the point being that there has been such a leap forward in the DRC peace process that even an...
There's been such a fuss about the former Iraqi Minister of Information. But the interest (and entertainment) is puny compared to the ever-convincing Donald Rumsfeld. So I was delighted to discover that perhaps the best (domestic) radio news progamme, Broadcasting...
It's the middle of the night again. My sleep pattern has been nuked. But as soon as I started writing this I started feeling tired so I'll make it snappy. The lift has stopped descending - must be those emergency...
April 26, 2003
Can't sleep. Can't eat. This is the down lift. Descending. Cable shredding. Hanging by that twisting screeching thread. Trying not to move, hoping to stop the skull-mashing smash of unstoppable down....
April 25, 2003
Everything's got all muddled. Where is Xanadu part 2? Where is my friend Janice the long-distance locomotive? Add to this confusion the fact that we're going away for the third weekend in a row. Two weekends ago, Bilbao; last weekend...
April 24, 2003
If only I still had tonsils, then I could call my current affliction tonsillitis. But I don't, so I can't. "Sore throat" will have to do, but oh how inadequate a term it is. Shortly after my joyous discovery of...
April 23, 2003
But for how long? I shall click on "Post & Publish" with some trepidation in case it all goes horribly wrong again....
April 20, 2003
(I wish my blog hadn't burst. I with I had a sidebar and more than one post. I wish the archive links hadn't disappeared. I wish the blogger boys would patch and re-inflate it all. This is the second time...
April 15, 2003
The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! We...
April 10, 2003
It started as spam, but it's a great story. The mobile adaptation that makes for stimulating conversation: Purring Kitty. Purely in a spirit of disinterested research, of course, I located the happy cat. Seems like a lot of other people...
April 09, 2003
Sorry to exercise it here but I tried yesterday to post a response to comments left after I last got the hhorse out. After composing a long and, I considered, thoughtful comment, I clicked publish and everything vanished. Enetation ate...
Bad morning. And it's not yet 10 o clock. Got up at a crackier hour of dawn than is usual for the trainer of two young children. No time to have coffee, take pills. Half hour brisk walk through freezing...
April 08, 2003
Ok. It's a stupid hour in the middle of the night, but I just couldn't sleep because of my exponentially increasing anger over the no doubt almost non-existent UK media coverage of the massacre of civilians in the Democratic Republic...
April 07, 2003
In three hours a death toll about the same as known civilian deaths more than a fortnight after the invasion of Iraq. Congo massacre 'leaves 1,000 dead'....
B was so excited about this site he phoned up from work to tell me about it. It was mentioned by John Sutherland in this Guardian article. His recommendation is Venik's Aviation. It's like reading about a completely different war....
April 05, 2003
Distant trees with bare branches against bright spring sky look like brain blood maps. Well that's what struck me as we drove down to Bristol last weekend. They looked like computer-generated images of arteries and veins being slowly turned in...
April 04, 2003
We missed the first Reith Lecture, Phantoms in the Brain when it was broadcast, but no matter! We listened on the laptop last night, snuggled under the duvet in bed, with the additional benefit of the interactive website. It was...
Oh, and Al Jazeera in English is back up again after its hack-attack. Two of their correspondents have been prevented from working in Iraq by the government....
War junky? This calls itself The Mother of all War Websites. It has feeds from tv and radio media sources around the world. If you want to watch live Iranian television, you can here. Also the raw feeds from CNN...
April 03, 2003
Fake war photo on newspaper front page: Los Angeles Times - Editor's Note. But why? Does "better composition" sound like a good excuse? How often does this happen without being noticed?...
April 02, 2003
This was the question that confronted me one morning on my English literature 'S' level paper. It was a bit of a poser. Because at the school I attended we were not encouraged to think. Not at all. English lessons...
April 01, 2003
Yes. This is where it's at. Beyond the blind-end of "no war" towards the open door of alternatives. Peaceblogging at dive into mark....
