UK postal strike nears resolution
Postal workers in the UK have been on strike for the past few days. Their leaders have negotiated a settlement with management. Normal work will resume once the postal workers agree to the deal…
…Once the deal is posted out to them. Then all they have to do is post the yea/nay forms [...]
Massacre
After 50 mins, France have scored 8 tries against Namibia tonight.
Ireland managed 2 in their 80mins against Namibia.
Namibia have been massacred and so will we next Friday.
I don’t know if I can watch the game next Friday.
London is a Spook Country for me
Nerd alert: I’m a big fan of William Gibson and I collect signed first edition books of his. Yeah, I even collect the regional versions with different front covers…
William Gibson has a new book out called Spook Country* and he’s doing the rounds at the moment doing book signings. Of course, he [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]