Category: Non-techie stuff

  • Moving pictures

    Some films seem to be about special effects, or are vehicles for particular actors or celebrities, or are cynical attempts to make money from the movie-going public. That’s why it is so great to see a real story told in moving pictures.

  • Scooby Snacks

    This week’s Guildford Times is running a story about a notorious local businessman who runs several of the night spots in the town centre, and it made me chuckle. This guy often runs into planning permission problems and the like (such as his plan for a huge casino in the town centre), and he is…

  • Jet lag

    Do migratory birds get jet lag? Does it depend on whether they have used the jet stream?

  • Stalked by bees

    Call it spooky coincidence if you will, but I will call it synchronicity. Certain topics or words that keep coming up, in unrelated places. There is always a background level of coincidence, but at the moment it seems to be a higher level than usual. This week it’s bees. A month or two back it…

  • Happy Danes

    The BBC Magazine is running an article about Denmark, and how “happiness” surveys show that they are generally happier than the rest of us Europeans (I’m including Brits in that). But, in classic BBC style, they need to tell both sides of the story; except in this case I’m not sure what they’re trying to…