Posts by neuro

Some photos from my Ryanair flight to Bournemouth on Monday . Quite a quick flight, but Bournemouth Airport is tiny :)

BBC News Online is doing hour by hour updates on the "business" regards Iraq

After reading "UN decision day on Iraq" this morning on BBC News Online, I can feel hair bristling at the back of my neck. Key phrases: "moment of truth", "reacted defiantly", "very threatening", "have only managed", "final appeal" ... These two sentences scare me, however: 'Saddam Hussein appeared prepared for war, warning that if Iraq […]

Interesting article yesterday from the SF Chronicle (which is a pretty good read on a Sunday, if huge and chunky!) about SBC switching customers to SBC Yahoo! DSL — the repetitive mantra of "we want to lead people to a better product" would be amusing if it weren't so abusive of consumer rights — an […]

While skimming BBC News Online this afternoon, I noticed a story headlined Latrine deaths over Kenyan cell phone . Turns out this student dropped her mobile into a pit latrine in Mombasa after paying a wee visit, and she offered 1,000 shillings (US$13) reward for its recovery — a coupla more statistics: the phone cost […]

Sorry, I had to blag this from Paul ... Separated At Birth? Infamous Porn Star Ron Jeremy Arrested Al Qaeda Leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Osama obviously needs some high rollin' types to grease the wheels of the war against the infidels ...

Yes, you read that right, a traffic warden gave a bus a parking ticket while it was stopped at a bus stop picking up and dropping off passengers . If this doesn't show what a bureaucratic and officious society we live in, I don't know what does. Footnote: the ticket later got rescinded after the […]

I got spammed with this overnight — now I'm used to receiving random spams that pass through my spam filters (" SpamAssassin ," he cried from the highest rooftop in the land), but what I got was a spam trying to sell me commemorative dollar coins. No big deal, they get papped out all the […]

Tip o' the hat to me mate Mark from Cisco for this one: turns out there's a loophole in the (presumably English [and — yes Nic — Welsh]) law which means that a driver caught on a speed camera, who is then sent a penalty notice by post, can elect to return the form saying […]