by nabidana | Mar 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Burgess wrote in introduction to the 1986 edition of his gruesome masterpiece, titled A Clockwork Orange Resucked, that a creature who can only perform good or evil is “a clockwork orange — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and...
by nabidana | Mar 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
The disqualification of the Corpus Christi College team, after they had won the 2009 University Challenge competition, rather beggars belief and sits uneasily with common sense. One competitor has been ruled bot to be a student at the end of the series, but had begun...
by nabidana | Mar 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
There’s clearly a lot of traffic being generated here by the commentary on other sites; as a result, my SEO implementation is going to be upgraded over the next two days; the site will be slow but extremely exciting. I’ll be twittering all the while, of...
by nabidana | Feb 24, 2009 | photography, politics, Uncategorized, unstupidity
The UK Government has issued a ‘recovery website’. I think I improved it. Click to enlarge. And Welcome to all the new traffic, very welcome. Feel free to...
by nabidana | Feb 23, 2009 | commerce and trade, politics
I switch songs on my iPhone, trying to get something suitably recessiony, something to remind me times are hard and things are bad and people are sad. I round the corner past the bus stops, happy not to accelerate past the slim redhead just ahead. Not checking her...