'Rants' Category
To find which is lost
The pain in my heart pulls at me like an incessant child. As hard as I try, I cannot continue to ignore it. The pain stabs, and explodes with deadly accuracy. As hard as I try to drown the screams of agony from my head, it will never go away. Somewhere back down the road […]
Nothing for sale at Amazon.com
Gotta love gutsy Jeff Bezos. First he turns e-commerce on its head by patenting the obvious, now he’s trying a new wave sales tactic, selling virtually nothing at all.
As you can see from the photos below, Amazon clearly are trying to drum up the hype by refusing to sell anything.
Ok, so a server […]Scorecards from Rome
Ahh Rome. A bustling city where one can idly sip cappuccinos from quaint cafes while overlooking ancient piazzas with impeccably dressed Italians zipping by in their Vespas.
Uhm, ok so that’s not really what happened in my recent trip to Rome. So what was it really like? Why read some boring travelogue when you can […]Ealing Council suspends PCN disuputes pending High Court review
The good folks at the hyper efficent Ealing Council (pun) have frozen all parking disputes pending a review by the High Court.
If the review is anything like the reviews done on Barnett and Lambeth Councils, the outcome could take quite a while and eventually invalidate Ealing’s ability to charge the exorbitant rates they do […]A new dress code: How the Germans coded messages in designs
When you think of encoding secret messages to pass across enemy lines in WWII, the enigma is the most obvious thing that spings to mind. But fashion design? Sure, looking at fashion design from that era can lead to cardiac arrest from the sheer shock value, but how on earth could you encode a message […]
