How the web works

Reading time: 2 mins Or “The advantage of tabbed browsing”. Before I start this is NOT a pro-Firefox post but I will be mentioning it as it’s my browser of choice. There are other browser that offer tabbed browsing. Anyway, I was just randomly surfing when a post on Caterina’s site caught my eye. It’s about the book “Getting…

Meme: Fahrenheit 451

Reading time: 2 mins You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? Not any of the ones that are incinerated. Simple really. OHH not LITERALLY, but literaturally? (ohhh I just invented a word, ohh, no I didn’t). Anyway, I’d choose to be Mowgli in the Jungle Book. Why? Because of the songs of course (whaddya…

Matchstick Men

Reading time: < 1 min Awful nights slee… well I fall short of calling it sleep as it was more a night spent tossing and turning, checking the clock. Isn’t it amazing how much vitriol and hatred we can heap on such a simple device, after all it’s not the CLOCK’S fault I was up most of the night yet…

Backwards

Reading time: < 1 min Question (seeing as you all liked the last one so much): if you had two blog posts, side by side, in which order would you expect to read them? Left to right (newest on left, older on right) or right to left (newest on right, older on left)? My thinking is that we read (in…

Vice Versa

Reading time: 2 mins “There is a light that never goes out” Morrissey sings into my head. I work on, aware that the tune was familiar, from somewhere else? (I don’t listen to The Smiths that often, did they do cover versions??). I paused to listen to the lyrics. VERY familiar. Where had I heard it before? Somewhere. Faster…

(In)dependent

Reading time: < 1 min I was 20 when I left my parents home. We’d just gotten engaged when Louise’s flatmate had to move out. Or her flatmate moved out so we had to get engaged? I forget… I just do what I’m told. How old were you when you fled the coop?