Wednesday , January 28, 2009 – 15:52
I’ve finally got round to setting up a slightly nerdier blog for my main interests – knowledge and communication. I’ve stolen some posts from my purplekitten.co.uk blog and shoved them into knowledgescape.co.uk, hope that’s okay
I’ve also just shifted this blog onto the hosting server, so it’s no longer running on our rubbish ADSL. [...]
Saturday , February 2, 2008 – 15:18
I’d like to think that I’m not particularly motivated by money in order to do my best at work. I’d like to think that working hard brings reward. I’d like to think that being conscientious, dedicated and enthusiastic would mean success.
But I’m realising that just isn’t the case. I’ve just had a long conversation with [...]
Thursday , January 31, 2008 – 12:44
If my television license fee goes towards the development of content (whether or not I choose to *watch* the content), then why do I have to pay *again* to get this content on a DVD? Surely the price of the DVD should just reflect the cost price of DVD production and distribution, as I have [...]
Friday , January 11, 2008 – 18:52
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Mac Mini and TV, originally uploaded by Purplekitten.
My Optio T20 went sadly blind (camera functional but all it could see was black) so after an attempt to use my Optio s4 again, I wanted something with a bigger [...]
Friday , December 21, 2007 – 20:40
I’ve just caught myself providing my household with twitter-like updates as a sort of running commentary. Apparently this isn’t a new feature of wife 1.0, I’ve always done it.
Thinking about it, I guess it dates from my time as a home carer. I used to look after a variety of elderly and confused people, as [...]
Monday , May 7, 2007 – 19:07
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Excessive Detail, originally uploaded by Purplekitten.
I do realise that there aren’t hordes of gnomes lovingly hand-carving these cat treats, but at the same time I have to wonder about why the detail is there at all.
Smart as the [...]
Sunday , April 8, 2007 – 20:24
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It’s a lemon on a ladle., originally uploaded by synx508.
For some time now /dev/husband has been wanting a ladle. So we finally purchased one. It is hanging on the wall in the kitchen with a lemon in it. [...]
Wednesday , April 4, 2007 – 7:59
I’ve been idly perusing the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and am slightly concerned by one of the provisions:
Duty of person responsible for animal to ensure welfare
(1) A person commits an offence if he does not take such steps as are reasonable in
all the circumstances to ensure that the needs of an animal for which he [...]
Saturday , March 31, 2007 – 19:55
There appears to be yet another reason why I am cheerful about running Ubuntu Linux: not because it’s pretty and runs nicely on my laptop (better than XP does), but because I don’t have to sit here widdling myself everytime I open my web browser. Seriously, Windows makes me nervous. I use Firefox, with the [...]
Sunday , March 25, 2007 – 8:32
As some of you may or may not know, I’m currently attempting to trace my family tree. I seem to be mainly using Ancestry.co.uk and enjoying myself greatly. Not to say that there aren’t a fair few changes I’d personally make to Ancestry’s software: it’s good, but could be better.
Having found the particular entry I [...]