Reading time: < 1 min BBC News | SCI/TECH | Net monitoring scheme under fire UK Government plans to archive all internet traffic and e-mail has been singled out for a controversial award at this year’s Big Brother Award ceremony. This kind of thing is twice as scary is a lot of it tends to creep by unnoticed. I’m not…
Reading time: 2 mins Apologies for this but it’s the way my mind works (in other words, I have a terrible memory and I’ve only just remembered that I was gonna mention this). We caught a documentary at the weekend, one of a series about black comedy, which featured the life of Richard Pryor. I remember the first time…
Reading time: < 1 min The Iconfactory: Your Quality Freeware Icons Hub (news.asp). Sad as it may seem I bet you will do the same.. Visit the IconFactory, catch the little animated gif ‘warehouse’ (above the word newsroom). Refresh to see another one, and another one, and another one… They seem to add new animations in batches, and throw up…
Reading time: < 1 min Off to gym in a few minutes. My bag’s packed and ready to go, only trouble is that it will take about 20 mins to walk there, I’ll spend about an hour or so on an exercise bike, or treadmill or something, then have to walk 20 mins back to the station. Two workouts in…
Reading time: < 1 min a.lifeuncommon.org. In short, yes it IS that bad to use ketchup when eating steak. Steak should be enjoyed unadulterated. No peppercorn sauce, Diane sauce, or other such extravagances. A properly cooked steak will be succulent and juicy and will melt away in your mouth. Ketchup, steak, bad. Mind you it’s better than someone who is…