not sport | Wait until next year

Every year, around about Boxing Day, I think to myself, “Christmas is a lot of fun. I wish I’d started celebrating it earlier rather than not really getting into it until a few days before.” Well, I don’t necessarily think those exact words each year, that would be odd, but often words to that effect. It is not that I’m fundamentally Bah Humbug until it is too late, more that Christmas kind of creeps up, doesn’t it? I mean, it is less than three weeks away. How did that happen? Read the rest of this entry »

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November 29, 2013

Spam Comment Q&A

Man with loads and loads of letters, mostly airmail

This place gets its fair share of spam comments. The vast majority are either weeded out automatically by WordPress or I see and remove quickly. Obviously I don’t want the place clogged up with gibberish. There is enough of that in the posts, eh? I also don’t really want a load of links to dodgy looking sites. However, some of the comments are odd enough that they deserve an audience, sans dodgy links. I figured the best format was a Q&A – my opportunity to have a dialogue with strange, automated text. Enjoy. Or more likely, not enjoy. Read the rest of this entry »

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Video | November 29, 2013

Weekend

November 24, 2013

Sunday Reading

The return of a list of stuff I’ve enjoyed reading, and think you might enjoy too…

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November 22, 2013

JFK and Without JFK

Kennedy amongst a crowd

The old cliché was that everyone remembered where they were when they heard JFK had been shot. That is far less relevant as the years go on. The obvious reason is that there are fewer people about who can remember that day in 1963. But also, the assassination of JFK has long since gone from being an event to being something far more nebulous, yet far more universal. Read the rest of this entry »

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