Of course, after a weekend of it totally bucketing it down it is now blue skied and sunny of a Monday afternoon. Still bloody freezing. The office heating is left off over the weekend (very sensible financial and environmental precaution) and takes a good run up and a downhill dash to become even tepid before 4pm. Went to a meet-up on Friday with tyrell which was good but odd because I was...

Back in London. Trying to balance a need to keep busy, which is currently by far my best strategy for dealing with everything, with not getting so busy that I collapse into a heap. Made a good start by meeting with tyrell   straight from Euston on Friday, then lots of Halloween goodness yesterday so flaking a bit today. I'm also somewhat nervous about work tomorrow, because I did leave in a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJfDGkCsBcs">New vegetable video Went wandering in London yesterday with Chuquai Billy - we intended to film things but ended up just wandering. Visited Treadwells and saw tyrell and marysiak though. I hadn't seen either for ages. Chuquai and I talked about comedy clubs at one point - the Jongleurs type in particular. Was a bit surprised when...

alasdair , tyrell and athena25 check this out, relevant to your interests, yes?

so how companies react to complaints is something that interests me hugely. All too often I see customers treated as if they should be grateful for the chance to give their money to a company for substandard goods or services, or (if a customer has faced abuse or violence) blamed for the problem they're complaining about. As a customer there's very little you can do in this situation, which is why...

Gakked from tyrell  , reposting specifically because I am bored to tears of people going on about the good old days and "traditional family values" David Cameron's solution to a "broken Britain" would break us more. Yet that soundbite itself reveals a deep conservatism at the core of Cameronism. If Britain is "broken" today, when was it fixed? In the 1950s, when women were beaten with impunity...

So anyway, I knew that the TV Tropes site had a section entitled ' Crowning Moments of Awesome ', in which they list a whole bunch of awesome moments from film, TV and other media. What I  didn't know was that they were doing a real world section. I therefore give you a run down of some of those moments, and a few others that spring to mind... I'm in two minds about this one. On the one hand, the...

I am bored. Not as bored as tyrell  was yesterday, because I have yet to start correcting the grammar of geek languages. I am also not bored enough to fill out the "equalities" survey on my desk sent in by some well-meaning quango, because I find them very distasteful. This rates at perhaps a "7" bored. Entertain me!

Gacked via tyrell from here . " David Pesetsky , the Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at MIT, is also the principal second violin in the New Philharmonia Orchestra of Massachusetts. For their 4/1/2009 rehearsal, he provided English translations for the sometimes-confusing performance instructions in Mahler's 1st Symphony ." Even if you have only the most...

Iz Not a Geek   What's with this mouse cursor?  Suddenly, yesterday I think, it wouldn't scroll so I had to use the side bar.  Today it scrolls side to side (where available) & up, but not down. Hmmm, *quick check* 'tis the same on the BBC News website.  Maybe it's something to do with Safari?  What have I pushed now, entirely by accident?  Ah well. & for the guitar fans among you - a link...