Year: 2012
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Who would break a butterfly on a wheel?
Recently I moved back to my old work location, which is significantly closer to home. Ten miles, to be exact. Last time I worked at this particular location I got into the habit of cycling to work, and thought it might be nice to start cycling in again – especially as there’s rumor they may move my project to another location some 40 miles away by the end of the year so I really ought to make the most of it while I still can. As it’s been a couple of years since I cycled more than round the block… Read more
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Love just ain’t enough
So the people of North Carolina have voted to ban same-sex marriage. Well bravo for bigotry. In fact, the people of North Carolina have done more than just ban it. Same-sex marriage has been illegal in North Carolina for the past 16 years; this vote just makes it that much harder to ever get it legalized. So it’s not really a case of North Carolina stopping something that was going on because they didn’t like it, but more a matter of adding insult to injury, just out of pure spite. Not that North Carolina are alone in banning same-sex marriages… Read more
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So much for being ‘with it’
Five years of Last.FM tracking my every listen, and I’m still pretty consistent: Read more
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eCommerce at its finest
Nothing suggests a hurriedly-implemented web presence like invoices that still use the boilerplate text. This from razor.com: Read more
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Democracy: Too important to be left to the people
There was a report in the newspaper recently on a bridge in Slovakia being named after Chuck Norris. Apparently local officials had put it to a popular vote, and (at the time of writing) 74% of people had voted to call it the Chuck Norris Bridge, outvoting a local historical figure by a huge margin. On the face of it, this is all highly amusing, but it does emphasize my point that people should not be allowed to vote – on anything – because they’ll just take the piss, or screw it up. Seriously, it happens every time you let… Read more