Stephen Lang came up with the idea of listing 10 scary things for a Halloween meme and publishing the list after dark. After dark? Everything I do on the net is after dark this time of year, unless I’m off work that day. Anyway, here’s my 10. Beyond the first two, they aren’t really in [...]

I came across an article on the BBC Ouch website about Vampirism as a Disability where Lisa Egan discussed a number of impairments that the vampire suffers from – the fact that they’d either have to work nights or in an office without a window, for example. There’s also the difficulties in explaining your “disability” [...]

Is it because the W3C aren’t able to recognise the needs of the wider community? Is it because they’re not representative of the wider community? Is it because they barely acknowledge the wider community? Yes, yes and yes.

……are travelling on a car journey through Romania late at night and they get a little bit lost. Spooked by eerie howling noises in the woods, they decide to find somewhere to stop for the night and continue their journey in the morning. They aren’t having much luck — the road winds slowly through the [...]

I received an email from the Customer Services Manager at Lothian buses today, which pretty much answered all of the issues I’d had in my earlier posts Lothian Buses: The Wheels Grind Slowly, If At All and Lothian Bus Ride Of Doom. For a start, he apologised for the initial incident, he apologised for the [...]

I found myself using one of these entirely my accident today, and then obviously berated myself appropriately. You know the sort of thing I mean: using apostrophe s to indicate a plural when obviously only the simple s is required. I call it The Grocer’s Plural because that’s where I personally see it most often: [...]

I am a regular reader of both Joe and Roger, and from Roger’s comment on the coffees at @media 06 — and the fact he links to a site called kaffesnobben, it seems apparent that he likes his coffee — indeed that he’s a self-declared coffee snob. Joe’s recent post ‘hip’ also covers coffee, although [...]

Note: the following text was sent to Lothian Buses, along with my email address yesterday morning, along with the comment that I was still unhappy at the way they had been handling my complaint, and that I would be adding this text to my website unless they got back in touch (they’ve got my email [...]

Happy Birthday, Universe! Well, according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar, the universe was created on October 23rd, 4004 BC. As there wasn’t a year 0, with the Christian calendar going from 1 BC to 1 AD (or CE) this means that the universe is exactly 6009 years old today. It also means that the universe is [...]

Okay, it’s a B3TA thing, so please bear in mind that there will be some parts of it that are extremely offensive to some people. That said, some parts of it will be extremely funny to other people. If you’re easily offended, don’t read on.