I nearly deleted my list 101 page.  When I drew it up I told myself that it is a bit of fun (and I bunged a few funny things on it) and that I would enjoy completing it and that, for the more difficult tasks, it would remind me to keep on it and encourage [...]

You’ve hired a consultant Oracle DBA , either because you decided that Oracle isn’t that different to Microsoft Access and so your secretary could manage the new APPS installation as well as anyone yet it all went Pete Tong very fast, or because the consultant that sold you “a complete business re-engineering solution that maximised [...]

There are so many, it seemed a shame not to devote another post to some of them. Like this old classic, that should be taught to every linguistic student:
A panda bear walks into a pub and asks the landlord for some bamboo. The landlord, although a little stunned, cuts some stalks from a [...]

I run a number of sites.  Some (like this one) only I write the content but on some others the content is also written by other people.  This doesn’t mean that they can write what they like nor does it mean that they must write only what I like.  I issue them with guidelines which [...]

Today I’m thinking about jokes.  Mostly I’m thinking that I don’t remember them very well.  I suppose I prefer a visual gag (Harold Lloyd especially), but I also enjoy spoken gags that play on words.  My favourite being the Two Ronnies sketch in a hardware store where Ronnie Barker as a yokel asking for a [...]

I was searching around the Internet due to boredom and somehow I ended up on the blog of Lindsay Morgan Wright (how cool is that name?), I learned about banned books and a bit about what she does and doesn’t do.  She also has a page about 101 things in 1001 days where she lists [...]

No.  No Facebook.  No MySpace. No I won’t fill up my page with embarrassing photos, personal information or my private life.  I am not an idiot and I won’t let everybody have access to information about myself that I wouldn’t tell the government, even under treat of jail.  Hell, no I’m not stupid enough to [...]

Autumn (or Fall as you septics say) is my favourite season.  I just had a small but fantastic taste of autumn today in some sandwiches.  Granary rolls, buttered with thick-cut shredded roast beef, raw mushroom, and a soft blue cheese called Saint Agur.  These were made fresh this morning and left at room temperature until [...]

Five false fire alarms this morning.  A new record.  It’s was all a ruse to steal my apple because after I ate it, they stopped.

I expect that most of you can calmly go to your local grocer’s, market or lay-by and point out some onions in a crowd of other veg without breaking a sweat.  However these onions didn’t always look like that, with their dry light brown skins, their little root tufts and the crispy bit that sticks [...]