Entries from March 2008 ↓

Been playing about with the latest beta of Firefox. Not sure I like the RSS links - I’m used to the way Safari puts numbers against bookmark items. It also seems really slow at downloading images, compared to Safari (yes I have cleared caches, to provide a comparative test). AdBlock plugin for Firefox is really good, better than the open source one for Safari.

Just waiting for Safari 3 to come out now, not that bothered with Acid test compliance.

Interesting interview on the radio yesterday (radio 4, not my choice) about a father that wanted the right to choose his child’s genetic makeup, so that it produced a deaf child. The father and his family are deaf, therefore they wanted a deaf child to be born. I think this is completely unethical and if I’d been doing the interview I’d have asked if a blind, Down’s Syndrome etc parent should also have a similar choice? The father was going on about how deafness is not a disability, rather than actually answering the ethical aspects of his absurd “choice”.

How far will genetic choice go? Will parents be going into Children Supermarkets to pick and choose, to fit in with their needs?

Clock Parts - Panels

Panels from Lawrence Art Materials.

To be read in conjunction with clock #1 and clock #2 entries.

I really must resist buying the Men Behaving Badly boxset, especially as it’s a bargain. Damn.

If the HMV offer runs out - it’s on Amazon.

Have you head the word ‘cay’ before? Neither had I, till a dream I had last night. Might be related to my upcoming visit to Fiji? I’ll leave you to discover what the word means.

My weekend was really good (apart from England being rubbish at rugby). Dropped into Witney to meet up with a friend, for a half day of drinking on Saturday. Sunday was very enjoyable - went into Oxford and watched one of my favourite Hitchcock films - Rear Window. Then I had Sunday lunch, then watched another film - The Bank Job. TBJ was a pretty good film, though it did have some Transporter-esque moments with Jason Statham fight sequences.

Today (Monday) was not so nice, maybe even nasty. Had to visit the dentist to get two crowns prepared. Three injections, hurty-drills, cement, x-rays and an hour later I have some temporary crowns, ready to be proper crowns in two weeks. I did find some humour in the visit though - the reception lady called up a Mrs Payne, to remind of her of an appointment.

Travelling over the Severn Road Bridge was not fun either - there was a van being blown from the hard-shoulder into the middle lane!

Chanel Five is one of the worst chanels on TV. I don’t know why I bother watching it - as there are adverts on nearly every ten minutes, or so, and those adverts seem to be about five minutes long. I soon lose patience.

It’s a bit like TV in America and Canada. Though I will let Canadian TV off - as it has Robot Chicken. Also - Relic Hunter, but that’s only because it’s got Tia Carrere in it.

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Here are the clock parts, for this project. They came from A G Thomas, who were very helpful and the delivery was prompt.

Well - I’ve made some initial queries into getting a job in a bookshop. I have no retail experience, so will probably have to be a coffee-boy or something like that.

How much more “scientific” studies do Japan need to do on whales? How come they can’t study the existing whales that they’ve already slaughtered? Maybe they’d like to study, in a similar manner, panda bears, Amazon tree frogs and snow leopards?

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