Move along, there’s nothing to see (or hear) here. 🙂 Just a test podcast post using the original test audio file, to see if the
Month: February 2008
A103 TMA07
TMA07: Block 5 comparison This assignment related to Block 5 and you will be dealing with two different works. When you have completed the assignment,
A103 TMA06
Religious Studies or History of Science This assignment relates to Block 4. When you have completed it, please send it to your tutor to arrive
Did the earth move for you too?
Well I felt it. The earthquake. At 00.57 I was woken by the whole house vibrating and a deep rumbling (as though a fleet of
Top workery
Look, English isn’t my first language. And besides, the English language isn’t static; English is an evolutionary beast, it changes with each generation. And if
Drinking on the hoof
Lunch is a take-away cardboard mug of latte as I jog down the road to Maplins. It has a lid. The latte. Well, I expect
A big day out
OMG there’s a guy over there – a student – whose ring tone is ‘Jerusalem’. But not in a good way, I mean in a
Road (train) trip – the first Monday
Tomorrow I shall be leaving my fellow motorists unscared as I swap my driving gloves (not really) for a return rail ticket from Bromsgrove to
Oh the irony
But for some reason… Amusing in a very wrong way. B.
Low fly, no fly, can’t fly?
First in this post, to Switzerland. Land of the cuckoo clock (even though it was a German invention), numbered account and the world’s most secretive
The sound of absolute drivel
The first test podcast for This Reality has been produced. Actually, produced is a massive overstatement for something that’s so hilariously bad. But at least
Being very bad in the bedroom
I’m lying in bed fiddling with something very hard. While my wife is downstairs preparing tomorrow’s lunch. I’m feeling slightly – but only slightly –
You’re for the high jump, me lad
We’re gearing up for the Eventing season, me and Vin. Well, when I say ‘we’ what I really mean is: * I have been making
Rndm txts agn. Agn
There are 176 texts in my phone inbox. Yeah, I’m just a digital hoarder. But now I need to delete them because my phone is
Just so wrong
01.23 and I’m downstairs and wider awake than a wide awake thing has any right to be. Don’t ask why, just one of those things.
Swindon (swine-don?)
I had to go to the post office in the centre of Swindon today. Recorded delivery shit, the kind of stuff that one has to
OU musings
The penny’s dropped. Here’s what’s wrong with the Open University’s business practices in the 21st Century. Recycling. Yes, recycling is not a good thing. How
Boring techie nerdy stuff
My laptop (bless) is locked down. Yes I put all kinds of software on it but only for a purpose, never for fun. I use
Ah reckon there’s change a-comin’, Cleetus!
Saturday 1st March 2008. A date that will live on in infamy (cue Kenneth Williams in a toga hamming it up with the immortal “Infamy,
Child abuse?
The documentary ‘Baby Bible Bashers’ on C4 is deeply disturbing. It shows scenes that at best could be called child abuse, and at worst could
An apology
To my friends and colleagues at the yard… I’m sorry. I seem to have used the last of the toilet paper. And I’d give it
Working like a dawg
(a work-based form of haiku-style form I invented in my sleep. I know it’s successful. In my dream I delivered it to a pubfull of
Sharp intake of breath
We are considering buying a car. Another car. A second car. Yes I know. Very sinful of us. But you see, in the 21st Century
Taking stock
It occurs to me that our behaviour – sometimes perhaps more childish than the average person our age – might set us apart from other
Writing for posterity
Get this. Amongst the exhibits in the Dublin Writer’s Museum are not one but two hairslides which are stated as having been owned (but not
Stretching before me is?
Ah, the weekend. Or, as the French might say, Le Weekend. 🙂 I sit here contemplating all of the things I could be doing with
Travel broadens ones…
… arse. It’s all that sitting about that does it. Travel also stretches ones credibility. And tests ones patience. And pushes ones mental endurance to
Ships of the desert, sights of the night
Get this. Amongst the exhibits in the Dublin Writer’s Museum are not one but two hairslides which are stated as having been owned (but not
If it’s Saturday it must be…
Dublin. Back soon. B.
Namecheck…
Driving to work this morning, listening to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code (edition 715), I was pleasantly surprised to be name-checked by Adam – the