Yes, it’s spring again, and the Chaffinches are squabbling. After the rather dreadful winter (spiced up by regular invasions of rats driven to desperation by the cold – they loved our compost heap – and the little gifts I left them…) life is slowly returning to the garden: this morning,… Continue reading
The other week, we decided to visit the Royal Academy in Piccadilly, London in order to view the Anish Kapoor sculpture exhibition. Outside, Anish had built a very large sculpture consisting of a large number of reflective spheres linked together. It was truly spectacular and we spent a while photographing… Continue reading
OK, so there we were in the conference hall during the last break, having just had the sh*t scared out of us by Scott Letourneau’s pitch about the dangers of doing business in the US (and how he’d teach us to avoid them in exchange for a sum marginally less… Continue reading
I noticed on the New Scientist web-site this morning that every article had been posted with a spomment – a spam comment I Wish You A Happy Shopping . Tue Nov 17 01:05:27 GMT 2009 by lisa I reported a couple as off-topic, but there are dozens of them. So. … Continue reading
What have I been doing? I went to WIS (World Internet Summit) UK. Great 4 days if hard on the wallet! However, I stayed in a hotel. This was a mistake. It wasn’t just any hotel, but for legal reasons I won’t name it here. Needless to say, it was… Continue reading
Hi bloggers and bloggees. My name is Ken and this is my first ever public blog. It’s a bit different. A bit like realising that you’re at work, sitting at your desk starkers. Aargh. Up ’till now, I’ve always viewed diaries as private things, that you hide under the mattress… Continue reading