Daily life

On the Lash – Women drinking

Posted in Daily life on May 11th, 2007 by Robin – Be the first to comment

Source article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6213686.stm

Ah. the battle for equality seems to have been won. Women are equally as stupid as men now.. We should all be so proud.

- Richard, Huddersfield

Top Web 2.0

Posted in Daily life, Geek Stuff on January 2nd, 2007 by Robin – 1 Comment

Michael Arrington of techcrunch.com has written (updated) a very handy article listing some excellent Web 2.0 companies you should get to grips with. I can’t say I use all of them but I do use a fair few (Flickr, Gmail, Netvibes, Digg, WordPress, Skype, Youtube), and I love them. I dare say I’ll be signing up for a few more, and hopefully with the increased convergence of web services, 2007 will see people adopting and contributing to sites such as netvibes more frequently.

Goodbye Dec, but not forever!

Posted in Daily life, Thoughts on December 3rd, 2006 by Robin – 2 Comments

Dec at Elvaston Castle, tastefully taking a drag

A quick post to say, Dec left England yesterday. He’s meeting his girlfriend for 3 months in Thailand, before they both move on to Australia to lounge around, then find some work (they have work visas sorted out). Of course we’ll miss him loads, but we’re very jealous and taking our hats off to him for doing this :) With this virtual world though, no-one ever seems that far away… and fingers crossed as many of us as possible can meet up during summer 2007.

Good luck dude (and Mel)!

Haruki Murakami, Pinball 1973 (English).

Posted in Daily life on July 15th, 2006 by Robin – 2 Comments

Hahahahaha! I have a copy of Haruki Murakami’s Pinball 1973, in English!

Unfortunately though I won’t get to see it for about 2 months as I’m abroad right now (Thailand) and its only just arrived at my home. As soon as I get home I’ll photograph it and pop some photos on here. I won’t attempt to review the book because I suck at literary / artistic criticism.

I’m telling myself that I will resell it (after much admiration) because I can’t justify the amount of money I spent on it, on a mere book. At least I think I will. Hmm. I should work on trying to find a way to convince myself keeping it is morally acceptable =P

Please show your envy (or make your best offer) below :D