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Red lorry, yellow lorry

Dear Red Lorry

You are a similar size to yellow lorry. You are a similar weight to yellow lorry. You have a similar size engine to yellow lorry.

When yellow lorry slows down going up an incline, the laws of physics mean that you are also likely to slow down. Consequently, there is little point attempting to overtake yellow lorry. Unless you shed your trailer or engage turbo boost mode, you will simply hog the middle lane. You may eventually pass yellow lorry on the flat after 17 minutes and 9.4 miles. Alternatively, you may have to abort the manoeuvre and lose face.

Your papers, please !

Just returned from the annual torture of the seemingly simple task to renew two parking permits. Yes folks, we have to pay for the privilege of parking our cars in a nearby road, miles from our house.

To secure the parking permits, you need a wad of paperwork. In fact, you probably need to produce fewer documents to adopt a Romanian orphan. If you have two vehicles registered to one person but used by two different people, the documentation requirements and level of complexity increases exponentially.

upmarket buskers

Just encountered two very talented buskers, attired in an immaculate dinner jacket with bow tie and a lovely, long, sparkly dress, singing the most beautiful opera.

I was about to toss them 3 Norwegian Kroner but found they only accept credit cards.

spammers plumb new depths

Rugby players spend a lot of time physical training Compared to other form of sports. I have read the Rugby laws mentioned on this site. It’s a gripping sport which targets the grip strength and the active mindedness of a player. American football and rugby league are also primarily collision sports, but their tackles tend to terminate much more quickly. For professional rugby, players are often chosen on the basis of their size and apparent strength and they develop the skill and power over the passage of time. In modern rugby considerable attention is given to fitness and aerobic conditioning as well as basic weight training.

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TechCrunch (UK) launches

TechCrunch (with a focus on the UK) launches.

[Via BlogHerald]

comeback kid

I honestly didn’t think I would see this Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wear a Red shirt again, let alone score in the Premier League.

Three long, hard years fighting a recurrent knee injury. Well done Ole.

YCNMIU

Norton Canes Services - M6 (Toll). Three clocks behind the till:-

Clackett Lane - 13:59
Norton Canes - 13:57
Watford Gap - 13:58

You genuinely could not make it up.

Cockneys 'R' Us

I was enjoying a stroll along The Embankment yesterday morning, dressed in my Pearly King outfit, listening to Chas’n’Dave tunes on my iPod, munching on cockles and mussels, when I noticed banners hanging from each lamppost proudly proclaiming ‘We are Londoners’.

The letter ‘D’ was shrunk to accommodate the rest of the letters. Just like a kid writing a Thank You letter to Auntie Joan and suddenly realising he’s going to run out of space.

in praise of Tom Reynolds

I heard an interesting interview on Radio 5 yesterday with UK blogger, Tom Reynolds. Tom works for the London Ambulance Service and his blog is a mixture of amusing anecdotes and real-life experiences.

I really like Tom’s blog title (‘Random Acts of Reality’), his tagline (‘Trying to kill as few people as possible’), the dry sense of humour (summary of his recent holiday) and his general writing style.

Tom started his blog in 2003 which has just been made into a book (‘Blood Sweat and Tea’) which is pretty remarkable.

blog anniversary

The first blog I ever saw was this one (this entry to be precise) and to be honest, I just couldn’t see the point whatsoever.

Then I stumbled across Tom Kyte’s blog which was relevant, interesting and sparked my interest in reading other technical (Oracle related) blogs.

Just over a year ago, I started a blog (on blogger.com). Little did I know it but WordPress.com was launched the day before.

The creation of the blog was simply a quick experiment to play around with the blogging software. Secondly I was interested to see how long it would take to get a comment on the blog from a standing start. Then I fully expected to lose interest completely.