Memories

“RFID passive tags and readers that can be used to monitor vehicles at a read distance of 17 feet traveling at speeds of 160 mph” … brought back some memories of designing such a system ten years ago, we never completed it because we never got the funding we needed, and the technology at the […]

Official: Buffy the Vampire Slayer “not sufficiently explicit or graphic to be indecent….no nudity, and…no evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon, or was used to pander, titillate or shock the audience”. …we can only hope they do a better job next series…

Say what thou wilt “Children aged 12 to 16 will learn the benefits of using correct grammatical constructions, such as “you were” rather than “you was”, in everyday speech” I’ve ranted before about how language evolves, and how this is not a bad thing…but really, if we’re going to be complaining about ‘you was’ the […]

Floats by in clusters in our water supply ‘This looks like a case of hidden mass medication upon the unsuspecting public,’ Baker said. ‘It is alarming that there is no monitoring of levels of Prozac and other pharmacy residues in our drinking water.’

At last, the killer application for mobile phones… “Hey, this is your Escape-A-Date call. If you’re looking for an excuse, I got it. Just repeat after me, and you’ll be on your way! ‘Not again! Why does that always happen to you? … All right, I’ll be right there.’ Now tell ’em that your roommate […]

Oh, and while I’m updating…can anyone out there help me explain polyamory to a Japanese person? I assume its not prevalent in society here in quite the same way as it is in England, though there is the concept of ‘the dinner guy’, ‘the pick me up and take me home at the end of […]

Oh dear, a whole load of catching up to do and not really enough sleep to see me though…seems to be the way of things over here this time. Thursday saw a trip to the photography museum in Ebisu, where there was an exhibit of works by australian artists. This turned out to be more […]

I’ll be missing this party…hope another can be found at some point in the future…

“In a shameless piece of electioneering, the Tory party has launched a new assault on speed cameras by pledging to scrap all those shown not to reduce accidents – if it wins the next general election.” …elsewhere… “The lifeblood of a resurgent London music scene, guerrilla gigs came to prominence when one of the capital’s […]

You associate pea soup with Thursday