April 2003
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Designing a Blog
(Only slightly ‘Art’ related… or am I clutching at straws?)Regular reader(s) will know that I purchased a digital camera recently. As such I’ve got a few photo’s I’m proud enough of to put online. This of course gives me an excuse to re-design the site again. (There is a side article here about the propensity…
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Ayurveda
Stumbled across this in the Metro this morning. Ayurveda: A Brief Introduction and Guide. The Science of Life “Ayurveda identifies three basic types of energy or functional principles that are present in everyone and everything. Since there are no single words in English that convey these concepts, we use the original Sanskrit words vata, pitta…
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More names
The man they call Lyle (to his face) reminds me of a story about names, or to be more precise, the story of my name. My Mum was named Lynda Gordon, and on marrying my Dad became Lynda McLean (you can see where this is heading already can’t you). Soon the lovely couple decided to…
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Gadget envy
My contract is up so it is new mobile phone time methinks… But which one? Tariff has to be cross network, phone must have gadgets. Currently I’m heading towards the Orange SPV (my mate has one and it is very smart aside from the fact it is running on an MS OS… blue screen of…
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I DO believe!
Errr except I don’t, not fully. So it was with great amusement that I took the Belief-O-Matic test (via Moi). The results:1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Theravada Buddhism (88%) 3. Liberal Quakers (88%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (84%) 5. Neo-Pagan (80%) 6. Secular Humanism (77%) 7. Mahayana Buddhism (77%) 8. New Age (76%)…
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David Gallagher
Prompted, in part by Gert, I thought I’d go a little further than check my referrers but actually go and find out something about some of the more frequent ones. Now considering the top 5 are (in no particular order):1. “Kylie’s bum”2. “kicking men in the nuts”3. “Kirsty Gallacher”4. “David Gallagher”5. “something” I thought I’d…