Seems to me that it’s a very good idea to sort out photo albums in a timely fashion. The two main reasons for this are: You can remember the who/where/when of the photos. You don’t post-select the photos based on experiences since then. For instance, a few years ago I went to a wedding and […]

I know I’m a bit late in writing about this – been too busy. So anyway, Sassam Hussein has been given the death penalty in Iraq. No surprise there – the opposite would have been a surprise. But the reactions are still interesting; lots of pictures of people on the streets on Iraq celebrating, for […]

Listening to Paradise City has got me thinking about intros to songs. I would probably back off a bit from saying Paradise City is one of favourite song intros, as there’s so many good song intros – but it’s definitely an intro I really like to a song I don’t particularly like. It seems to […]

I’m slightly ashamed to admit that I just made a discovery about C++ classes that I probably should have realised years ago. If you have something like class A { public: virtual void fn() { cout << “I’m A” << endl;} ; } ; class B : public A { public: void fn() { cout […]

Spooky thing – Guns’n’Roses’s Paradise City is quite possibly one of my favourite introductions of all times. I’m not actually wild about the song as a whole, but the first 80 seconds, until the thrashy overdriven bit starts, just hit the spot everytime. Ok, I’m a huge fan of “layering” in almost any song – […]

On the way into work yesterday I saw a Scottish lorry with the logo Thistle Removals emblazoned across the side… … I wondered if they also took out splinters?

I went to an Ebor lecture last week, at York Minster, by the Archbishop of York – John Sentamu. The title was Uncovering the Purposes of God, and he was really talking about the purposes of God through trust and worship of a loving God love for your neighbour care for creation There were two […]

Well, survived my first day in my new job. It’s always an interesting experience starting a new job – new people to meet, new systems and software to learn. I’m very much a pioneer in my outlook, and am happiest when forging ahead with new things, so in many ways the first few months in […]

I don’t think the suffix -trix is used enough these days. It is apparently the feminine version or -tor, thus wherever you could have a (male) -tor, you would have a female -trix. The only two uses that seem to be current are dominatrix and testatrix, but I don’t know why we should stop there. […]

Sorry about all the parenting entries, but I’ve been meaning to say this one for a while! 🙂 One of the thing Ben really likes watching is Storymakers on CBeebies. The basic premise is that when the library closes for the night, these two creatures and a literary magician appear to make stories using all […]