Sunday, February 27, 2005
We're far from uptodate and so rantless, so piddly pedantic and no mistaking. Well we've move the Gnomic rant to the Radio Wymsey / Wymsey / PeartreeGreen forums here. Come on over register and get foruming!
Saturday, July 31, 2004
Two months almost since the last post - so!
Well, the past couple of weeks have been dramatic, I start a new job on Monday - left the old one Friday lunchtime. I'm out of manufacturing and into law - the new job is archiver for a local law firm . Over the past year I had found my job increasingly tiring and tiresome so I'm excited about my move!
One good thing about the new job is that I can cycle rather commute by train as I have been and today we went to get me a new bike it's a Muddyfox and you can see a picture of it here : Downtown
The Boy is in California with dad for the summer so it's just us and the cat! When he gets back we have to kit him out for secondary school - which is going to be something of a culture shock all round.
We now have the home network set up and running sweetly, two Windows XP boxes and one Win98. There's one shared printer attached to one of the XP boxes which does for now, perhaps when we're flush I'll fork out for a print server but that is way down the list!
Well, the past couple of weeks have been dramatic, I start a new job on Monday - left the old one Friday lunchtime. I'm out of manufacturing and into law - the new job is archiver for a local law firm . Over the past year I had found my job increasingly tiring and tiresome so I'm excited about my move!
One good thing about the new job is that I can cycle rather commute by train as I have been and today we went to get me a new bike it's a Muddyfox and you can see a picture of it here : Downtown
The Boy is in California with dad for the summer so it's just us and the cat! When he gets back we have to kit him out for secondary school - which is going to be something of a culture shock all round.
We now have the home network set up and running sweetly, two Windows XP boxes and one Win98. There's one shared printer attached to one of the XP boxes which does for now, perhaps when we're flush I'll fork out for a print server but that is way down the list!
Friday, June 04, 2004
Do you have a local newsgroup on Usenet? Mine is uk.local.hampshire and it makes good bigot hunting ground. Bigots are bullies & cowards who pick on those that are not in a position to defend themselves. Anyone with the simplest awareness of history will know that what the neo-nazis are now saying about Muslims they were saying about asylum seekers last year. Before that it was Asians, West Indians, the Irish in the 1950s and Jews in the 1930s.
The rightwing tabloids stir the pot with halftruths. I work with ordinary working class guys who would define themselves as decent & 'nice' who firmly believe that xenophobia is just fine (not that they would know the word). When I interject and say that one can't be racist and a nice person I am shouted down.
The nearest I have ever got to an honest statement was when a workmate said that he found non-white people frightening.
Naturally, there are also normal tolerant people at uk.local.hampshire and they too will confront the bigots.
I am quite deeply troubled by, given 20th century European history, how anyone with half a brain can be a racist. I suspect that this is unfair and the root of the problem is emotional rather than intellectual, it boils down to one's emotional attitude to the world and everything in it. Do I experience the world as welcoming or threatening. All the racists I know & have known seem to experience anything different as alien & threatening, anything foreign as dubious rather than interesting. This includes 'abroad' & the food there! I have also noted that these people have a generally negative attitude to life.
Think about it: how to be a happy fascist?!
The rightwing tabloids stir the pot with halftruths. I work with ordinary working class guys who would define themselves as decent & 'nice' who firmly believe that xenophobia is just fine (not that they would know the word). When I interject and say that one can't be racist and a nice person I am shouted down.
The nearest I have ever got to an honest statement was when a workmate said that he found non-white people frightening.
Naturally, there are also normal tolerant people at uk.local.hampshire and they too will confront the bigots.
I am quite deeply troubled by, given 20th century European history, how anyone with half a brain can be a racist. I suspect that this is unfair and the root of the problem is emotional rather than intellectual, it boils down to one's emotional attitude to the world and everything in it. Do I experience the world as welcoming or threatening. All the racists I know & have known seem to experience anything different as alien & threatening, anything foreign as dubious rather than interesting. This includes 'abroad' & the food there! I have also noted that these people have a generally negative attitude to life.
Think about it: how to be a happy fascist?!
Sunday, May 23, 2004
At last! The Lymp Ledger is up and running - not a lot of content yet but at least I have a usable format & front page style. I've created a short front page, a letters page & some links. Now I need to create the material!
I'm about to start on the commissioned site "Extreme Performance Motorcyles" & I'm learning a lot about how to define what is necessary before the job can begin - it will always be an educational process otherwise people would just create their own sites.
I'm about to start on the commissioned site "Extreme Performance Motorcyles" & I'm learning a lot about how to define what is necessary before the job can begin - it will always be an educational process otherwise people would just create their own sites.
Sunday, May 16, 2004
Just to say that the Eliza's gig in Brighton was spot on - very good indeed! It was great to actually meet her and express thanks - so strange to meet someone who seems so familiar through their music, and strange to look up and see them standing there. Dorothy and I had a table right at the front of the stage at which we had supper & beers.
Goodness me, this new blog interface is something else as a certain type of person used to say! Not a lot going on here, the missis has had damn awful sinuses and is slowly on the mend. The weather got good!
I've started applying serious thoughts to The Lymp Ledger & have put up an intro and contact page.
The website commission is registered - www.motorcycle-engineering.co.uk a mouthful I know but it's what the clients wants.
I've started applying serious thoughts to The Lymp Ledger & have put up an intro and contact page.
The website commission is registered - www.motorcycle-engineering.co.uk a mouthful I know but it's what the clients wants.
Friday, May 07, 2004
I've been asked to create and host a site for an associate who makes & races motorbikes, for which I will be paid :) He was quoted £300 just to creat the site and I will be charging a third of that including hosting & a GB of bandwidth per year.
Friday evening and the start of five days off work with lots to do! This evening is beer at home whilst the missis goes through her costumes and the boy plays the TV with his Gamecube - each to his own! The beer is called Dirty Dick's Ale, brewed by Youngs and comes in at a gentle 4.1% ABV.
Tomorrow morning I'm off to see a planning proposal exhibition for the Woolston Riverside development and hope to quiz the developers and have my say. The latest newsletter merely serves to show good intention and scant detail! I have to be back by 10 am for the delivery of our new book cases and then a couple of hours sorting out books out. The boy is in dire need of storage and will have the old book shelves.
Monday I have a day to myself and on Tuesday I'm off to Brighton to visit daughter, Dorothy, and take her out for supper and to see Eliza Gilkyson at the Komedia.
Tomorrow morning I'm off to see a planning proposal exhibition for the Woolston Riverside development and hope to quiz the developers and have my say. The latest newsletter merely serves to show good intention and scant detail! I have to be back by 10 am for the delivery of our new book cases and then a couple of hours sorting out books out. The boy is in dire need of storage and will have the old book shelves.
Monday I have a day to myself and on Tuesday I'm off to Brighton to visit daughter, Dorothy, and take her out for supper and to see Eliza Gilkyson at the Komedia.
Sunday, April 25, 2004
Eliza Gilkyson: http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-04-
19/music_roundup4.html
Coming to England, we'll be seeing her at the Konedia in Brighton:
http://www.komedia.co.uk/0405/200405112030_m_elizagilky.shtml
19/music_roundup4.html
Coming to England, we'll be seeing her at the Konedia in Brighton:
http://www.komedia.co.uk/0405/200405112030_m_elizagilky.shtml
