Archive for the 'Gimpy internet nonsense' Category

Good news, everybody

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

You’ll be delighted to hear that The Sharpener is back online and that I have a new post there on why it’s right to treat politics as a trivial and irrelevant sideshow.

Also, now that the Sharpener is back up, I’m going to try and get back into the habit of putting my political stuff up there, and random finance / transport / IT geekery / lifestyle stuff on here. Whether that will improve either place is a question for thee and not for me…

A lie has a good ending

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Today’s “this is what the Internet was invented for” site is the automatic random proverb generator.

Favourites it’s given me include:

Blood is thicker than the eye of the beholder.
He who lives by the sword shall die by a vacuum.
A little learning is money.

Quality stuff. From B3ta, obviously. As is this link: a gangsta rap album called Mail on Sunday. There’s got to be some scope for Middle England confusion there…

Ricking it

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

The world’s first ever Rickmob happened yesterday at Liverpool Street station. Awesome stuff.


Added bonus: if you watch the video, you may notice a special guest appearance from your effervescent host…