Monthly Archives: October 2007

Appletime

October 24, 2007 – 7:23 am

I joined a Netflix-like DVD rental service a while ago, based in part on the promise of a new iPod Shuffle after 3 months. I’d lost track slightly, so was pleasantly surprised when one arrived yesterday. As ever the packaging lives up to the rest of the product, and the machine itself is almost too [...]

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Parking

October 23, 2007 – 12:38 pm

While figuring out how to get to an indoor play area for the kids, I came across this intriguing bit of parking. I’m not positive, but I think that’s a de Havilland Sea Vixen. Not quite as odd as it might seem, as just a couple of screens north is DARA Rotary, who provide deep [...]

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Politics and Intelligent Design

October 22, 2007 – 1:36 pm

One of the criticisms often made of ID is that it isn’t predictive; that it will see something that appears to be designed and point it out as an example of ID, but if an evolutionary explanation is found they don’t hesitate for a moment to just move on to the next one in the [...]

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Alan Coren

October 19, 2007 – 12:42 pm

Alan Coren, author, broadcaster, columnist, take your pick, has died aged 69. Coren has a small place in my heart as the first grown-up humourist I read, probably when I was in my early teens. Until then I liked funny stuff, of course, but my definition of what was funny was, well, that of someone [...]

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Trike

October 19, 2007 – 8:49 am

I picked up my new trike last night, and will be building it back up (doesn’t quite fit in the back of my saloon) tonight. I may even squeeze in a little test drive, without using my right knee of course. Here’s a pic: and here’s a link to the page of a similar machine [...]

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