Strangely Perfect

[pacman] This guy has made a WordPress Plugin that’s a fully working PacMan game to celebrate 30 years of Pacman….  (link here).  So happy birthday, Pacmen!  I remember it and Space Invaders very well, and the loathing I had for their incessant racket in waiting rooms and taxi booking offices all over the North-East. (I [...]

Northumberland Northumberland is a lovely place – cold, sunny, windy, dry, overcast, damp, clear, clean and historic.  But mainly brrr  and wow!  Especially on the coast. It’s quite popular with tourists.  Here’s why I go there… …why do the fuckwits? The historic island of Lindisfarne (Holy Island) is connected to the mainland via a tarmac [...]

Paris Cycles Freely with Loaded Questions and Answers In Buddhism, there’s a concept called the forces of negativity which is inherent to the whole universe – but especially when applied to living sentient beings like ourselves. These negative forces are extremely apparent when the Velib Cycle Scheme in Paris is considered.  We have: The initial [...]

In an interesting twist to the news today, both the UK military, the US military, the Russian military and the Ukrainian military have shown themselves to be totally useless! The UK have had RAF personnel files stolen from a high security base in Gloucestershire!  Personnel records stolen from MoD In the current climate, this is [...]

The latest in the long-running sage that the British Government is trying to spell out called: Why We Will Win The “We Are the Best People to Put All Your Information in an ID Card and Lose It” Competition. http://www.itworld.com/security/54342/uk-justice-agency-loses-45000-personal-records goes the story.  In a FOI release the Department of Justice has said it’s lost [...]

Two items this week have prompted this post which follows on from others like Laughable Big Brother. The Viz character, Roger Irrelevant is the link. (Viz flash version of a Roger Irrelevant cartoon.) Quoting from the Wikipedia description of Roger: “Roger Irrelevant is utterly detached from reality. The premise of the strip is that he [...]

Jillian has just asked me to put it about that Amar (see guy on the left) is off on another driving mission to Mali in Africa and he’s short of at least one person. Amar is a Berber who lives in North-West France and at semi-regular intervals does trips to Mali where everything is sold. [...]

Introduction This is taken from today’s CTC newsletter. I never thought it’d work! Especially in PARIS…  what do I know? !! Parisians embrace ‘freedom’ bike scheme Taxi drivers and other critics said that it would never work, but three weeks after Paris was sprinkled with 10,000 self-service bicycles, the ‘Velib’ scheme is proving a triumph [...]