Nice-but-broken neighbour Steve wrote entertainingly the other week about how he woke up hungover, to find his computer keyboard surrounded by Tiger beer bottles (and what’s wrong with Chang, Steve?) and a reply from the office of the Prime Minister in his email inbox:
We went to the pub last night, with Paul and Laura.
It got me to thinking about the days before 24 hour licensing. Remember then? Before those crazy New Labour lawmakers turned our streets into rowdy chaotic no-go disaster areas slick with the blood of fighting drunks?
The papers warned us, but did we listen? Oh [...]
DHL; damn them - (Flickr user ukslim).
Now I’m sure DHL don’t want it to look this way. I’m sure some graphic designer had admired the old-style Guardian masthead, and decided that he too wanted to include an italicised word in a prominent place. Maybe he could pick it out in colour too.
Probably the word [...]
Back in November, I spent a couple of evenings creating a Wikipedia entry for every team in the Midland Football Alliance. Most of them are just stubs, with vital statistics gleaned from the Non-Leage Directory. Leamington, of course, gets a flagship entry, of which I’m reasonably proud, so I thought I’d give it a [...]
Happy Friday went large on Friday, with eight of us convening for a smashing meal in one of the cosy alcoves at the Thai Elephant. With that done, we set about finding out how it felt to be allowed to be in pubs slightly later than last week.
Since we were up that end of [...]
Just now, location management announced a 2 minute silence at 11:00 to mark Rememberance Sunday, although it’s Friday. Gary pointed out that the 7/7 victims got 3 minutes…
By 11:01 I had decided to use the remaining minute productively, so I looked up the lyrics to Crass’s “How Does It Feel”, addressed to Thatcher at [...]
With home office minister Andy Burnham starting a 7 day “charm offensive” today, to promote national ID cards, according to the BBC, it seems like a good time to link to the naysayers:
Liberty
Stand
No2ID
… and a singing dog
Paul did some more digging after his comment on my Chip & Pin post.
Chip and Spin clearly explains the subtle way in which the burden of proof, and hence the liability for fraudulent use has been transferred at least partly to the customer. The pertinent section is “Dispute Resolution”.
Just in case you’ve not seen it elsewhere already, Venganza.org is the home of Pastafarianism, the worship of the Flying Spaghetti Monster — who seems to look like a more appetising version of Cthulu himself, although he is also described as “invisible”.
The point of all this is to nudge the Kansas Schools Board into [...]
Update: What I wrote below turns out to be wrong. It was “conventional wisdom” which I’d heard from several anecdotal sources, but according to the Co-op bank website:
THE MYTH: After 1 January, the liability for card fraud losses switches from the banks to the cardholder.
THE TRUTH:
This is absolutely not the case. With the introduction [...]