Category Archives: Drivel

Over half way there!

I’ve completed 51 things on my 101 list.  Yay!  Er you don’t seem too impressed.  Fair enough.  It’s not like they were all world changing events – not for you anyway.   For me, well, OK perhaps world changing would be over egging it a bit, but all very nice things to have achieved.  Glad to [...]

Useless Old Parts

I’ve found a bunch of useless old motorcycle parts hanging around.  Now to turn them into useful motorcycle parts.

A Week of Revelations

I’ll say up front that I haven’t, in fact, had a quiet word with God about a career move, although what with the way the last week has gone it wouldn’t surprise me that if I had a sudden new love of dogma, kneeing and a much reduced reading list (OK, actually this would surprise [...]

List 101 Blues

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 [...]

Is My Consultant Oracle DBA Any Good?

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 [...]

More Wordplay Jokes

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 bamboo [...]

12 Golden Rules for Writers of Family Rated Sites

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 [...]

Wordplay Jokes

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 [...]

101 things in 1001 days

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 [...]

Just Say No!

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 [...]