Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
latest issue of The Idler magazine.
read the fantastic book " how to be idle" by tom hodgkinson, speaking out against the frenetic pace of modern life.
Lao Tzu would have been pleased.
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
why indeed? what they seem to encourage on the bbc website are these "Have your say" forums - at the end of a news article - which really seems to be aimed at encouraging the most right-wing, dictatorial and incredibly prejudiced fuck-wits of the world to write in. Now i ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2005
well that didn't take very long did it? they had to put it back in - starting this monday:
'Welcome back, BD'
- amusing extract:
"Within a few hours of the launch of the new Berliner Guardian on Monday, every email queue and phone line into the Guardian was buzzing with ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
its virgo time.
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Friday, August 26th, 2005
now if we knew the answer to that one!
anyway, i've amended this category of posting somewhat as a space for me to put down those little observations in life, which probably aren't of that much interest or use to others. many of these are nasty rants about mundane and petty ...
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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
I do love my firefox, i have to say. what would i do without tabbed browsing? I can't remember what i did before, oh well, if you don't know what you're missing..
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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
By Frederic Leighton 1871
The very image of perfect repose and glorious sleepy afternoons
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