Browser update…

I have, I’m afraid, given up the quest for a browser that will do everything I ask of it (as Firefox 2 did). Until Mozilla get their heads out of their collective asses, and accept that no-one wants their stupid Awesome Bar, and that Firefox 3 is a fuck-up (and still can’t handle Bookmarks), that [...]

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Grumpy Old People…

I confess that I have a soft spot for the TV programs Grumpy Old Men/Women, not least because the guys all seem to be a version of me (depending on mood!). Some of the women, too, hold views worringly similar to my own.
It does appear, though, that the definition of “old” was revised downwards with [...]

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Sir Ian Blair quits…

Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, leaves office today. Intriguingly, Blair blames the London mayor, Boris Johnson, for forcing him out.
This baffles me, because Blair is a Home Office appointee, and Johnson simply does not have the power to force him out – a point that has been made repeatedly since Blair first raised the [...]

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Diet aids don’t work…

Professor Michael Lean of Glasgow University has called for stricter enforcement of laws prohibiting companies from making misleading claims about the health benefits of their products – says an article in the Guardian.
Prof. Lean goes on to say that most products aimed at the slimmers’ market are useless. Seriously, though, is there really anyone who [...]

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The BBC strikes again…

Announced changes, today, to BBC Radio 5 Live schedules (or rather, confirmed changes – they were leaked some time ago), have generated a fair degree of frustration and anger among listeners, if newspaper blogs are any indication, who are in equal part angered and baffled by the changes, and the reasons for them. But this [...]

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The Day of the Triffids…

I’ve just read, in The Guardian, that  “The Day of the Triffids to be remade by BBC,” in which the writers of the article write that the Beeb is “Updating the sci-fi tale for modern audiences, the two-part drama revolves around a hunt for alternative sources of energy…”.
Excuse me, but have these BBC people actually [...]

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Rolling Along update…

Rolling along described my search for an affordable rollator – a wheeled walker, what I call a Racing Zimmer – and it’s just occurred to me that an update is long overdue.
I’ll be honest, once I’d bought the thing, I suspected there might be a psychological barrier to my using it, and so it proved. [...]

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So, farewell then, Woolies…

Back when dinosaurs walked the earth, shoplifting Airfix kits, not to mention paints and glue (though, perversely, we chose to use the glue to assemble the kits), was very much a rite of passage in my youth. And therein, I think, lies at least part of Woolies problem. They were a haven for shoplifters 50 [...]

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Some people believe anything…

I spotted this nugget of sheer lunacy on a blog tonight (I’m not going to name it, to save the poor, deranged soul embarrassment):-
Never touch your face and you should never get a cold.
I mean, come on. . . How the hell can you never touch your face?
It’s complete bollocks, of course. The cold virus, like [...]

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Political hypocrisy – no surprise there, then…

A day or two ago, Tory pundits – and political commentators, too – were saying that a 2.5% reduction in VAT was so piddling it wasn’t going to make any real difference.
Now, these same hypocritical assholes are up in arms, frothing with pretend rage (or possibly insanity – who’s to know?), over the not very [...]

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