Archive for the 'General' Category

Weather Anomolies

Friday, January 19th, 2007

It appears that when I went outside this morning I should have wrapped up warmer. Although a few miles down the road the temperature is much more pleasant.  Sunny though:

Origami and Catching Up

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Well, for some reason people have asked me in real life if I’ve blogged recently.  A bit strange that, 1) why would they care about the random shit I talk about here and 2) I was in the same room as them,  why not ask me what I’ve been up to in real life, rather […]

Djin, Jinn, Genie, Jinni or Djinn?

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

However you want to spell or pronounce it this Economist article makes very interesting reading. At least it does if you have an interest in that type of thing. I do; my hotmail address is SloeDjin for example. That’s a pun if you’ve never noticed before: Sloe Gin is a gin […]

Copyright confusion

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Err, this article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6186436.stm) seems to suggest that once your copyright runs out, in 50 years, you stop getting paid for your work. A bit odd that, you’d think you’d still get paid for your work, just that other people would no longer have to pay you to use it. Plus, of course, […]

Moomins are great

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

But strange.
http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/moomin/index.php?id=1&


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