Miscellany

Reading time: < 1 min My Mum phoned from Austria, they are off to Neuschwanstein Castle tomorrow. Seem familiar? A flying car landed there once, driven by Dick van Dyke of all people. Poor Jennie’s check card number was stolen – ya still gotta be careful kids, only give it out to somewhere or someone you trust. OK that just…

I've been Scribbled

Reading time: < 1 min “1. To write or draw in a hasty or illegible manner. 2. to make meaningless or illegible marks (on) 3. Derog. or facetious. to write poetry, novels, etc. 4. hasty careless writing or drawing. 5 meaningless or illegible marks. Scribblepad: web frustration.

Lollipop, lollipop, ohh lolly, lollipop

Reading time: < 1 min Javapops (via Blogatelle) sound like an ideal cure to a vexing problem I have. I don’t really ‘get going’ until I’ve had my first caffeine fix for the day (we can discuss whether this is a genuine dependency or a psycho-relativity issue later). I’m also a late sleeper (as in, I’ll lie in my bed…

Crash

Reading time: < 1 min Tense. Adrenalin pumping. Muscles flexing, pulsing with each wave. Thoughts ramming through my head, cascading across reason, slamming into nothing. Driving now. Hands tight on the wheel, music loud, leery, aggressive. Angry at the van cutting me up, angry at the woman on her cellphone. Angry at the cars not going fast enough. Risking. Not…

Guardian Blog competition

Reading time: < 1 min Call me cheap, call me lacking in moral fibre, call me whatever you like, I’m sure you already do… I have entered the Best British Blog Competition. I did comment on this a couple of days ago, but after careful consideration I have decided that I could really do with &pounds;1000… 😉 Seriously though, Neil…

Spam

Reading time: < 1 min I’ve been receiving some spam recently (not including Pink’s email which did raise a.. smile…). I don’t normally read spam, but every now and then, I open one: ———– %< ----------- From: John [mailto:siygjohn@hotmail.com] Sent: 18 July 2002 13:58 To: Undisclosed Recipients Subject: Recommendation Hello Jennifer, I hope I’ve got your email correctly. OK, from…