essential/random thoughts

• Some people have WAY too much time on their hands ... From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (740 days old)

  http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ I particularly like the "Whenever" programming language and the "Petrovich" operating system. … more

• A playlist From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (740 days old)

  It being 365 days since I last posted anything here, maybe I need something to motivate some regular ramblings! Hardly groundbreaking, I know, but a quick overview of the music I've been listening to… more

• Prescient, or what? From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1105 days old)

  I was clearing out some folders in my Usenet/Newsgroups application and found the following, written (but never posted) in August 2002. It was responding to a post suggesting that it would be "poetic… more

• Where does all the soap go?? From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1113 days old)

  I've been staying in a hotel in Charleston, SC for the last week. Every morning I open a packet of soap to have a shower, leaving it on the provided soap dish when I'm done - I've used 10% of it at m… more

• Just a normal day ... From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1120 days old)

  The National Trust is encouraging people to record the activities for yesterday as an historical record of what the country was doing on October 17, 2006 (see http://www.historymatters.org.uk/output/p… more

• Today's playlist (etc) ... From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1147 days old)

  Lined up for today's entertainment-while-working ... Steve Hillage "GGGGong-Go Long" (2 disc set, live radio broadcasts from 1977 and 1979) Colourbox "Colourbox" (a favorite for many years, fina… more

• 9/11 - Five years on From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1157 days old)

  Its hard to believe that five years have passed since the day when, like millions of others around the world, I stood transfixed in horror as the television brought us pictures of the terrorist attack… more

• When "home" becomes a strange place ... From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1163 days old)

  I had to make a quick trip to Belfast last week - the city in which I was born and lived until my late teens (and again for a few years in my mid 20s). Although we have been making trips most years t… more

• Not much of a blog, is it? From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1165 days old)

  Note to self: there's not a lot of purpose in having a blog and including links to it in your standard email sig if you don't post content to the damn thing!. Hopefully a little self-discipline will … more

• The delights of country living ... revisited From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1337 days old)

  Like much of northern Britain, we've had some unseasonally late snow over the last two weekends. Not enough to cause too much disruption, but highly photogenic! This is a panoramic view of the… more

• Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells is alive and well ... From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1338 days old)

  ... on the BBC News website's "Have Your Say" section. On any topic with even a remote connection to politics (and even those with none), there appear to be small groups of serial posters, obviously … more

• The delights of country living From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1358 days old)

  Over the past 20 years we're gone from city living (Stoke Newington, London), to a village (Addingham - about 20 miles NW of Leeds), to our current rural location on the extreme western edge of North … more

• Railroad Earth - "Elko" review From jfowler in essential/random thoughts (1363 days old)

  A good place to start for post #1. Here's a review that I wrote a few days ago for the EuroTraders Yahoo list and also submitted to amazon.co.uk (although it doesn't seem to be available there as yet… more

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