Month July 2004

Reading time: < 1 min 1. THAT documentary about the BNP – or is that all I need to say? 2. The freak shattered glass trauma on the train last night – blood but nothing serious. 3. The weekend looming.

Reading time: < 1 min Further to the radio tagging of Japanese school children, I came across an interesting article on Wired which discusses the rise of RFID (electronic tagging) in the consumer marketplace. It covers most angles, including why the tags will be of huge importance to retailers, of great interest to manufacturers and may be troublesome for consumers.…

Reading time: < 1 min Has anyone bought and tried Pink Floyd’s surround sound version of Dark Side of the Moon? If so, was it any good?

Reading time: 2 mins Making new friends can be tricky, it depends a lot on the circumstances of your initial meeting, or the shared company you keep, or whatever it was that brought you together. Take, for example, my new friend. Well acquaintance is probably more accurate. In saying that, I guess it would be fairer still to say…

Reading time: < 1 min Not sure if the weekend is to blame but I’m flat, down and empty. No will to do anything, be anywhere. I can’t even sleep. I dream of sheep, counting themselves to mock me. I dream of sleeping an endless sleep.I dream of never ‘having’ to again. To sleep.

Reading time: 2 mins Last winter our heating system started showing signs that it was giving up the ghost. It’s an old back boiler system and must be at least twenty five years old. We replaced the pump when we moved in as a running repair but knew that we’d have to get a new central heating system at…