Month November 2003

Reading time: < 1 min Just spotted the local cat. Nigel didn’t kill it.

Reading time: < 1 min Weebl and Bob. Especially when you happen to catch an advert for Anchor Butter and think: “Ye gads! they’ve only gone and ripped off Weebl and Bob” * Well they haven’t – it was by the people behind Weebl and Bob! Now THAT is a clever piece of cross-media marketing if you ask me… all…

Reading time: < 1 min My brother-in-law works for Compaq/HP, they have a scheme where, at the start of their year, they can ‘purchase’ additional holidays. Nice touch that. It got me wondering if there is any chance I could buy some extra hours in the day from anyone? Surely some of you layabouts have a few spare… I mean…

Reading time: < 1 min Eight finalists have been revealed in the competition to design a permanent memorial at the site of the World Trade Center. Personally I think Reflecting Absence is the most appropriate, but prefer the design of the Memorial Cloud. Unfortunately the whole thing is spoiled for me by the descriptive passages accompanying each submission… For example…

Reading time: < 1 min When sport marches into history: What is it about sport that drives us to such emotional extremes? An interesting little piece from BBC News which includes the George Orwell quote describing sport as “war minus the shooting”. Some would argue, after last night’s display, that that was exactly what some of the Scottish players need!

Reading time: < 1 min The secret of a protesting is in a united voice. That means attending rallies and such. Which is something I forgot to do yesterday. Yes I missed the Glasgow “Stop Bush” rally as I thought it was on today (it’s the London one today). Guess it’s the Virtual Rally for me (via Alex)