Month January 2001

Reading time: < 1 min In Memoria.

Reading time: < 1 min Nephew is doing well, sense of humour has survived, mind you it looks like he has gone 13 rounds with Tyson. Tidy house, no film watching but a productive weekend nevertheless. Slightly disturbing news – the Queen Mother stumbled (stumbled, she didn’t fall) coming out of somewhere. She then, later, made it into her car…

Reading time: < 1 min Tidy, neat and organised. Took some time away from this wretched machine to do a bit of tidying up. You know the type of thing, the stuff you keep saying you’ll do but never actually get around to, well we’ve done it. Mind you my desk could do with a clear out, I currently have…

Reading time: < 1 min No I ain’t a professional designer (no stop, I’m not…!) and I don’t work entirely in the web domain, but I’m gonna stand up for my profession – Technical Communications. We are the people who write the documentation. We are the people who write the online help. We are the people who long to be…

Reading time: < 1 min Weekend looming. Nephew in hospital (in surgery at the moment) so hospital visit on Saturday. Pop in and see my parents (remembering to pick up any piano lesson type stuff from their loft) then maybe a trip to the cinema in the evening… Unbreakable probably. Sunday – quiet, relaxing, working. Typical day really. http://www.desktopimage.com (need…

Reading time: < 1 min They’ve just released the first pictures of a genetically created primate. A small cute monkey, all of 4 or 5 small evolutionary steps away (or less). Scary stuff, the possiblity of the first genetically created human is on the horizon. Do we have the right? If we do, is it ethically acceptable to create a…