Living in London, I spend a hefty percentage of my time on the underground. Generally I hate it, but I also realise it’s one of those things that I will really miss about London when the time comes to leave.
The next train is for High Barnet. Barnet is British slang for ‘Hair’.
“…the nation-state system has been one of the must brutal and destructive creations of Europe and its offshoots, imposed by force on much of the rest of the world, with horrendous consequences for centuries in Europe, and elsewhere until the present.” See the full ting ‘ere.
This is from a debate in which the great man has honoured Noah Cohen by taking it “seriously enough” to respond.
Damn straight. The new Mozilla site is cool . Or, as they say, “Firefox: wired. IE: expired”. Yeah baby.
Which church would you rather belong to? The options are:
I’ve been lucky lately to see so many amazing films, and I’ve struck gold again with Sexy Beast. It’s a British Gangster film with a huge atmosphere. Highlights include: Ben Kingsley, the music, the story, the cinematography….
The old Dell laptop needed a hard drive transplant, and I found one on eBay. The auction had about 45 minutes to go. That gave me time to research the drive, register, bid, and get really excited. And then my bid ‘won’. Party on. And today it turned up in the mail. So far, so good. I stuck it in the laptop, installed Windows 2000 (oh, and spent two hours applying security patches) and it seems to work fine. Does anyone in central London need to buy a cheap Dell PIII with 380ish Mb of ram and a 10 gig hard drive (it has a dicky battery, but you can get one on eBay)? I’ll give you a special price.
