BBC NEWS SHOCKER

Reading time: < 1 min Developing news: The well established and highly regarded BBC News website has turned to parody and satire. Experts* presume that falling ‘hits’ have prompted this move, but are baffled as to why it has happened so suddenly. This kind of story is direct evidence of this new direction. It is worrying that such a reliable…

Hicky Burpday

Reading time: < 1 min George Bernard Shaw Born on this day in 1856: A brief biography.

Mmmm… Donuts

Reading time: < 1 min (Homer Simpson quote, hence the lazy American spelling…) I work for a wonderful company. They buy us cakes and doughnuts every Friday. Cream filled, chocolate covered doughnuts. Damn, should’ve washed my hands before typing, keyboard all sticky..

Lunchtime reading

Reading time: 2 mins As predicted I’ve finished my ‘work’ already, so I can push on to other things, which is good as they are usually the things that get dropped first. However I’ve decided on an early lunch and a quick surf first, and I thought I would share the fruits of my labour with you: The art…

Yawn

Reading time: < 1 min Working at home today. Which is good. However as usual I fell into my trap of deciding to do some work last night, so I could get a bit of a lie-in. Of course it doesn’t work that way, never has, I just keep forgetting. So, turned off the laptop at 00:34 last night, and…

Science IS Cool

Reading time: < 1 min If I told you that Light Emitting Polymer will be the next ‘cool’ gadget to have (quotes around cool in case you don’t think gadgets are, by definition, cool. Of course no-one like that actually exists so I guess it’s a bit defunct, anyway I digress…) you’d probably tell me I was mad.. I say,…