Fighting the system
Yesterday, I was reading a free copy of the Irish Indo in a cafe (I’d never buy the rag). The back page had a story about an English gang who had just gone on trial for allegedly stealing something like stg£50M last year. The proseceuting lawyer said it was done out of ‘greed’. [...]
NTL are pants
In Sept 2006 and March 2007, I wrote about the appalling customer service I’d received from NTL.
Sigh, here we go again…
A Brazilian friend is moving to a new apartment. It’s all a bit sudden…her partner died recently and she can’t afford the rent. Her English isn’t very good and she’s [...]
Hire this woman
I’ve kept on eye on Red Mum’s blog for ages now. She’s an award-winning writer. And an excellent photographer with 21 photos in flickr’s explore page (trust me, that’s good). She seems to be pretty good at most multimedia-type things. I’ve never met her but I’m pretty sure doesn’t do the [...]
Rude horseracing joke
Warning: You may find this joke offensive!
I’ve just bought a racehorse and I’ve decided to call him ‘My Face’.
Just imagine the horse running around the final bend and all the ladies screaming ‘Come on My Face’.
Thousands of Wong numbers
China runs out of surnames from The Register.
China has been forced to mull the possibility of allowing double-barrelled surnames - a break with the ancient tradition that citizens adopt one of a hundred single character surnames…
…In fact, other less common surnames bring the official total of permitted surnames to 161, but this doesn’t do much [...]