Archive for the 'Rants' Category



Pet owners given code of practice

Published on 4 November, 2008

Thank goodness we have the UK Government! In their latest attempt to spend the country out of recession, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have produced a 26 page guide on how to look after our pets. With 26 pages of advice on diet and providing somewhere suitable to go to the [...]


Apple Core

Published on 17 July, 2008

I’m dismayed about the lack of reports about the problems with the iPhone 3G launch. Granted, it seems that any anti-apple or anti-iPhone stories are banned from most of the main media outlets, but there are fundamental problems with how Apple and O2 have handled the iPhone 3G launch. I am an existing, very happy [...]


Adopting Fashion

Published on 16 October, 2006

What is it with Celebrities adopting children from Africa? Now Madonna has jumped on the bandwagon. Are we supposed to celebrate her compassion by taking one child out of his environment and bringing him into her world, which is frankly so far removed from ours that she believed that Swept Away was a great script. [...]


Wonko The Sane

Published on 30 June, 2006

Douglas Adams’ character “Wonko The Sane” from the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy does not seem so far-fetched after all. In the book, Wonko builds the Asylum: an inside-out house where the brick is on the ‘inside’ and the wallpaper on the ‘outside’. He explains that the world has finally gone totally mad, so he [...]


Spam comments

Published on 27 March, 2006

As blogs gain promenance, spammers find an easy way to reach a wider audience: posting spam comments. Just a note to anyone trying to spam this blog: It’s powered by wordpress, meaning that I have to approve each comment before it’s seen. therefore I am unlikely to approve any comment offering viagra, porn, or anything [...]