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Post-exam comedown

2005-10-20 – 16:10:00

Right then.  It’s been a long time.  But this morning I sat the exam for my latest Open University course, A210, Approaching Literature.  The exam was OK.  Hard questions, but good, you know?  Each section had several questions that I could have a go at answering, but none that immediately leaped out and said, “Do […]

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I claim this blog for Technorati…

2005-08-11 – 13:48:00

Or is it that I claim Technorati for this blog? In any case, I’ve just set up a Technorati Profile, and I need to post this code here to “claim” my blog. So there we are.

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Today

2005-07-07 – 22:18:00

I’m afraid I did what the Commisioner told us not to do: I went in to Central London. See, I live in Hackney, in the East, but work in Wimbledon, in the South-West.  So I was going to have to go into the centre sometime, to get home.  I just left work early. The trains […]

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London bombs

2005-07-07 – 11:25:00

Ian Blair (Met Police Commisioner) is just being interviewed on R4.  He says six bombs, and we should all stay where we are.  That’s easy for him to say.  Some of us have to get home this evening (from SW to E London) and collect kids.

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Software patents: dead in Europe

2005-07-06 – 15:31:00

In other good news, over on BoingBoing, Cory is telling us that Euro software patents are dead:The European Parliament voted 648 to 14 to reject the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The bill was reportedly rejected because, politicians said, it pleased no-one in its current form. Responding to the rejection the European Commission said it would […]

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2012

2005-07-06 – 13:44:00

So, London gets it.  I was against it, but now I feel strangely pleased. I think I was for it at first; I really enjoyed watching the Athens Olympics last summer, the kids enjoyed it, and the idea of having one just down the road sounded great.  But then I looked at the plans, and […]

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The afternoon after the morning after the night before

2005-05-06 – 13:12:00

Well. I did it: I went to the polling place and I put my cross in the box… for the LibDem candidate.  It’s a very odd feeling, you know, not to vote Labour.  The only time I’ve done it before, I think, was in the first London Mayoral election, when Ken Livingsone was an independent. […]

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Things can only get… different

2005-04-27 – 13:26:00

It seems that my erstwhile MP is more famous since he stepped down than he ever was in action.  Unfortunately, his jumping ship to the LibDems doesn’t help me with my “Now who do I vote for?” dilemma.  If Mr Sedgmore was still standing in Hackney South and Shoreditch — for either party — I […]

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Digital death masks

2005-04-07 – 13:41:00

Politics not getting anybody interested, then? OK, we’ll try religion. I was brought up a Catholic.  I grew out of it, of course; saw sense, kicked over the traces.  But even when I was a devout Catholic, I think I would have found it very strange, to the point of macabre, to queue for hours […]

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The Campaign Trail, 2005: the inevitable fear and loathing…

2005-04-06 – 00:45:00

… but is that a side order of despair with that, sir? Time to start blogging the election, then.  But what to say?  Normally I’d be exhorting you to vote Labour, like in 1997 and 2001; though those were before the days of blogs (for me, at least).  But this year.  This year it’s different. […]

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