Archive for May, 2007
A Party Political Broadcast On Behalf Of The Disenchanted
Friday, May 4, 2007 19:56 2 CommentsOkay, the various election results have been coming in across the country. Labour did poorly, although not as poorly as some had predicted; the Conservatives did well without exactly romping home, and the Liberal Democrats had ‘a mixed bag’. The Scottish and Welsh nationalists did well — remind me, why don’t we have English nationalists, [...]
Blogging against Disablism: Me vs Stephen Hawking
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 19:45 7 CommentsA few days ago I pointed out that Crippled Monkey (of BBC Ouch! fame) was promoting Blogging Against Disablism Day 2007. While I may be late, at least according to my time zone I’ve got a few hours left to spare. I plan to keep this as simple as possible, so here goes: How do [...]
Heralding Natural Disaster
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 7:27 8 CommentsSo I said at the beer festival we were probably due an earthquake somewhere. And we got one in the UK over the weekend. So last night a mate was saying that I had the ability to forecast (or prophesise) natural disaster. So I said: Don’t be silly. I said there would be a volcanic [...]