I hadn’t watched any of the Grand Prix races this year at all before, for two main reasons:
1. My bay-bee tends to hog the TV and it would bore the pants off her.
2. It bores the pants off me as well watching the cars go round and round without hardly anyone overtaking anyone else.
But I [...]
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October 28, 2008
Why I’m Monolingual
Having lived in non-English speaking countries for the past 15 years, one would assume that I would be fluent in at least one foreign language by now.
One would be wrong.
Because, to the annoyance of girlfriends and other friends alike, I remain stubbornly monolingual.
This, they assume, is because I am lazy and stupid. This is not [...]
September 3, 2008
Islamic IT Irony
Well, literally 15 minutes after making that last post (and I do mean literally – there’s nothing that irritates me more than people who use the word literally when they don’t mean literally as in “that curry was literally hotter than the sun”. Of course it wasn’t, you pillock. [Actually there is one thing that [...]
September 3, 2008
A Bad Workman Blaming His Tools
You may have noticed that in my first posting, the formatting was all screwed up at the bottom. This is not my fault. It is my computer’s. Actually that’s not true. It’s Egypt’s fault.
My computer is Latvian by birth. And a difficult birth it had too, and it’s all my fault.
I had a bit of [...]
