Archive for March, 2006
Moving
I’m moving house this weekend. Unfortunately the current tenants don’t have a BT line, and one hasn’t been used in the flat for quite some time. As a result, the nice lady with the Welsh accent (I do like a Welsh accent…) couldn’t give me a definite date of connection.
Still… it’s better than earlier in [...]
March 30, 2006
Posted in: Wibble 
4 Comments
Smoky
As I was walking home up Lothian Road last night, I passed a “sauna” and two strip clubs. I was struck by a thought… I wonder how these businesses will be affected by the smoking ban.
In the sauna’s case, I’m not sure what their smoking policy has been, but I am sure there are a [...]
March 30, 2006
Posted in: Edinburgh, Health Comments Closed
I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
I had a bit of an art-student moment this evening.
Yesterday, I bought a small bottle of “magic bubbles” – you know, the bubbles you blow, then can touch. They can sit for ages on a surface without popping. Marvellous.
I had forgotten that I’d bought them, until I came home from a late night at work [...]
March 29, 2006
Posted in: Wibble One Comment
Doctor Who? – Challenge Steve #3
…and thank you to Will for this challenge. I should start off by confessing that I am most definitely not a “Whovian” (or whatever the Dr. Who? version of the trekkie is). I certainly don’t have the Who? trivia knowledge that others do as demonstrated here. I had a passing interest in the show when [...]
March 29, 2006
Posted in: Challenge Steve Comments Closed
Religious Fanaticism – Challenge Steve #2
Thanks Katia this time for the challenge. Now, I might try to weasel out of it by having a big old discussion with myself about what you might mean by a religious fanatic (after all… scientists would be regarded by some ‘intelligent design’ believers as religious fanatics – and I would regard those who want [...]
March 29, 2006
Posted in: Challenge Steve One Comment
Porn – Challenge Steve #1
Thanks to Gordon for this first challenge. I suspect this particular topic came about because of my mention of porn in his comments (an innocent post about Firefox Extensions – tainted by my reference to the “downthemall” porn downloading extension).
Lots of people like porn, lots of people ‘use’ porn (although i’ve always hated that [...]
March 29, 2006
Posted in: Challenge Steve, Wibble 4 Comments
Challenge Steve
One of the discussions that came up at the blogmeet in Edinburgh the other month was “how do you know if what you are writing is interesting to anyone?” and “do you ever partake in comment-baiting?”. I think the first question is one that plagues bloggers the world over. We spend hours transfixed in front [...]
March 28, 2006
Posted in: Blogging, Wibble 8 Comments
What a Drag….
As promised, I ventured out to a bar last night “just to see what it was like”.
I think I might have picked the wrong bar to test it out in – the Cameo Bar (the cinema one, no the Leith one) has never been the smokiest of bars anyway.
Having been a non smoker for a [...]
March 27, 2006
Posted in: Uncategorized 3 Comments