Archive for October, 2005

detention and terror suspects

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

ha ha - i found this extract very funny - from a Guardian article on detention of terror suspects re: fuss on trying to extend the 14-day limit to 90 days. "I don't agree that the police would simply bang up anybody they wanted to bang up," the prime minister ...

no smore smoking in english pubs then? NO to cigarettes; YES to war

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

well its finally happened. so london will therefore have to go the way New York and Dublin did. it will be interesting to see how things pan out. will people just in these "smoking -room carriages" - or will they just stand in the street>? will they find equivalents of ...

goodbye to the Observer blog

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

the observer blog is no longer

and the .. London film festival

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

the london film festival runs from 19th october to the 3rd november. Alert - online booking starts 5 October - that's tomorrow! i like the sound of : cave of the yellow dog written and directed by Byambasuren Davaa, which is about a mongolian nomad family and a dog. ...

raindance film festival

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

the thirteenth raindance film festival is on right now in London - until the 9th October. its all about independent films, and they host the British Independent Film awards as well. tomorrow night at 1730 : Sam Jackson’s Secret Video Diary - sounds intriguing, perhaps ...

people can be happy doing whatever they want

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

that's right children - you all heard me. do what you like, i know you all are anyway. i'm not sitting here to tell you how things ought to be . see thats the funny thing - no matter how much you say that - people insist on imagining that ...

gosh

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

this idling thing really gets at people, doesn't it? they're all fully engaged in rushing to defend work, before they've actually realized what's under discussion here. i wonder why. the thing about 'slacking' / 'idling' being deeply ingrained in people's minds as being 'wrong' is clearly true - if anything ...

god no! more on working and idling

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

horror of horrors - check out this entry in the guardian business insight blog: "working time to thrive" discussion on how working days will lengthen, bosses' assumptions re: contacting us during our 'down time' will spiral out of control even more than currently etc. why should people expect us ...

limehouse town hall

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

anway - just wanted to mention how WSFII went this weekend. i didn't catch very much of it, but it was great the bits i did catch. the panel on Community Currencies was very interesting - and for someone like me - who doesn't know anything abour currencies, it was ...

the hispanic challenge

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

oh and don't forget the 'Hispanic Challenge' - our loving kind and very thoughtful friend mr. huntington's other controversial book, written after the C of C. " The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant ...