Monthly Archives: May 2006

Eye Contact, or: Pay Attention to the Web Behind the Curtain.

2006-05-12 – 11:48:04

Eyes in the sky There is a strange and mighty power to eye contact, it seems. I’m not talking about the effects of making — or not making — eye contact while talking to someone, though of course that does indeed have a great symbolic strength and communicative ability. Rather, I’m talking about the effect […]

By Martin McCallion | Posted in lj, musings | Comments (0)

Pachyderm prestidigitation

2006-05-11 – 13:30:11

Like much of the rest of the London Blogosphere, I went with the family to see The Sultan’s Elephant on Sunday. I had had a quick look at it on the way home from work on Friday, when it was just standing still at the end of Pall Mall. Then, it was clearly impressive; but […]

By Martin McCallion | Posted in events, lj | Comments (0)

Calling all Green Wing fans

2006-05-10 – 15:37:00

Would any kind person out there have a copy of last Friday’s Green Wing on video they could lend me? I had an accidental-taping-over-disaster before we had watched it. Other formats are acceptable too, of course. Thanks.

By Martin McCallion | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Who the hell do we vote for?

2006-05-03 – 17:39:40

It’s my custom prior to elections to write a post giving “voting advice”. Of course, I don’t expect anyone to take this advice: I’m just thinking out loud, really. But now, with local elections happening tomorrow, I’m in something of a quandary. It’s always been easy in the past — or it was, before the […]

By Martin McCallion | Posted in lj, politics | Comments (0)

Clarke and the convicts

2006-05-03 – 08:36:30

The fact that some of the ex-cons who are foreign nationals have offended again should come as no surprise whatsoever: many convicted criminals re-offend after their release. It should be nothing more than expected. Nor is the fact of their re-offending in itself part of the scandal. Furthermore, as has been said elsewhere, these thousand […]

By Martin McCallion | Posted in lj, politics | Comments (0)