Author Archives: Paul

She is pretty…

December 15, 2009 – 5:27 pm

…and she is mine:

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The Daily Mail, journalism at its slightest

December 8, 2009 – 10:31 am

For those of you lucky enough to have lived thus far without bumping into it, the UK has a ‘news’paper called The Daily Mail. I say ‘news’ rather than news because it has several facets, none of which are particularly concerned with news. Online it’s primarily interested in which reality TV tramp has [...]

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Empirically Speaking

December 7, 2009 – 7:30 am

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.
This is a terrific video showing the rise and fall of the Western European empires. Among other things it’s a great reminder of just how recent some of these territories were surrendered (a process that isn’t complete to this day). Well worth a few minutes [...]

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The Funeral

November 27, 2009 – 6:18 pm

Mum’s funeral was, as these things go, not a sombre affair. Temporarily lacking a vicar one of the lay readers, and a friend of Mum’s stood in for the service. He did a great job at keeping things relatively light, and there were no Holy Spigot moments (particularly impressive for an ‘amateur’ doing [...]

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Bye Mum

August 10, 2009 – 8:49 pm

My Mum passed away last Friday. We’d originally planned a holiday for the last two weeks, but cancelled that and switched to a week in Derbyshire. We’d go out during the day with the kids (Gulliver’s Kingdom, Alton Towers Water Park, etc.) and then I’d visit her in hospital in the evening. [...]

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