As today is the Nones of February, “Natalis laetus mihi! Vixi XXXI annos.” Go figure.
Chance for free CILIP membership
CILIP, the organisation that brought you £20 Amazon vouchers for members who recruit new members, and an exclusive car buying service with Nexus Cars now says: Renew your CILIP membership by 14 February and you could win 1 of 10…
Bunch of RSS
The CILIP RSS feed threw up a training session from UKeiG which, untypically for the CILIP RSS feed, amused me. It said: Don’t know your RSS from your elbow? Haven’t a clue where to hang the blogroll? That’s the stuff.…
RSS feeds for Blosxom writeback-based comments on Aurlog (at least for individual posts)
After finding some of Sil‘s RSS feeds for comments on particular posts extremely useful and galvanised by his recent comments that It really massively annoys me when I post a comment to someone’s site and then have to keep checking…
Morrissey on Eurovision?
The BBC reports that Morrissey may be singing the British entry at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki, although his possible involvement might possibly be limited to possible writing of a potential song. Anyway, I’m sure Tim will be…
Pete’s cornershop under new management
On Christmas Eve, I noticed that Pete’s newsagent/off-licence/corner shop, the Sandy landmark at the end of our road, has now changed hands. It is now open till ten in the evening (not till eight as before), and was apparently open…
Merry Christmas
As I explained last year I don’t work Fridays, and college is closed until a.d. iv non. ian. mmvii. So, merry Christmas and a happy New Year! To keep you going, I offer a choice of Christmas cracker joke: A…
Two of everything in Sandy
Following my post earlier this year pointing out that there are two Lloyds chemists a few doors down from eachother, two Forbuoys newsagents across the market square from eachother, and two Budgens, stevepsandy was good enough to write a couple…
Ten years on the internet
As 2006 comes to an end, I am running out of time to say that I have been using the internet now for ten years. One of the first things I did, under the tutelage of sil, was to start…
You are person are of the year
005 (Well, it was on Ceefax). Time Magazine has named You person of the year, Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world. There is a word to describe this but I don’t want to use it…