Posted in Tarot, tagged Tarot novice, The Tarot on December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Beginning…
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This is the first part of an occasional series concerning my encounters with, and the learning of, the Tarot.
Almost everyone knows that the Tarot is a method for foretelling the future, but they’re wrong – you can’t know the future, for to know it is to change it. [...]
Posted in books, tagged books, john sandford, kidd series, Tarot on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
John Sandford (a.k.a. John Camp), is a thriller writer, and probably my favourite writer, at least for now (for the record, my all-time favourite is Clifford D. Simak). In 1989 he published Rules of Prey, set in Minnesota’s [...]
Posted in ME, books, disablility, tagged A Transatlantic Tunnel Hurrah!, books, Harry Harrison on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is going to be pretty much a work-in-progress. It’s a very personal take on books I’m reading, for the most part (though as you’ll see in Books #2, it’ll also encompass books I’ve read). No doubt some of you won’t agree with my opinions. You’d be wrong, though! [...]
Posted in Booze, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Alcohol, Binge drinking, Christmas on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here in Britain you can tell Christmas is upon us – the news is full of surveys and research, and lots of plain old bitching and whining, about us all drinking too much!
We have, today, been exhorted by some bunch of losers, with only the slenderest grip on reality, that we really shouldn’t start [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ron's Realm Blog update on December 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just been through the entire blog, editing errors and making the links easier to read (they’re now bold).
The default text colour for this template is pale blue, for some odd reason, which I change to black. Sometimes my changes don’t stick, or I forget, so I’ve checked that too, and any grey text is [...]
Posted in Climate change, tagged Climate change, climate change disbelief on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Oh god, a couple of hours trawling the web and I’m losing the will to live. What is it that makes global warming so difficult to comprehend for so many people? Let’s face it, many of them believe implicitly in gods for which there is zero evidence – hell, you can see the effects of [...]
Posted in Technology, books, tagged Amazon Kindle, book alternatives, books on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, I know it’s a terrible pun – what I don’t know is why Amazon came up with such an odd name for their electronic “book”. I can’t see a lot of point, either. However, despite being widely rubbished, and costing $399 dollars, it’s sold out way before Christmas, so obviously a lot of people [...]
Posted in Technology, tagged Luddites, Television licences on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Almost unbelievably, 41,000 black and white TV licences were sold in the past year. So, that’s 41,000 people for whom the words “digital” and “switchover” are just meaningless noise. Don’t you just love that?
I can just see the infuriated letters to the Telegraph when their TV picture disappears for ever in a couple of years [...]
Posted in Terrorism, The Internet, tagged Google, record-keeping, Terrorism, Yahoo on December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that the major search engines, like Google and Yahoo, retain detailed records of searches for up to 18 months? No, nor me but according to this article on Guardian Unlimited they do. Ha, that’ll make you think twice about looking for porn sites!
The implications, though, are rather more serious. How many of [...]
