Keith told me to: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. From a book called What is History Now? by David Cannadine “Without time there is no history, but what sort [...]

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‘In Historians view, texts were arbitrary assemblages of words that themselves had come into being only through an arbitrary process of human invention. Each time we read a text, therefore, we put the meaning into it ourselves. So it was with the historian also. Thus what historians wrote was their own invention and not a [...]

Bugger this – I’m off for the Easter holidays, back home to the garden of England (or new ‘Gateway to Europe’) to see the folks and sister. At least the satan of train operators aren’t running things any more. I am going to Sittingbourne (The Meaning Of Liff: (n.) One of those conversations where both [...]

I love predictions, no matter how many times people are proved wrong by the slow spicy brain shuffling of time; people, commentators and pundits have to predict. Its like a disease. The side-effects of which are the spewing of guessing, speculation and prophecy. At the moment there is a lot about how Google/Blogging/Social Software/Wireless is [...]

Annoyed I must say I am becoming increasingly annoyed at the tabloids of late. Maybe the Beckham story is true, maybe it’s not – I don’t really care. I am not against newspapers writing their opinions, it’s their right, as it is mine to write this. However stories should be angled as that, opinions, not [...]

Apparently I am MASTER of the English language! According to an online test ‘While your English is not exactly perfect, you are still more grammatically correct than just about every American.’ Maybe nto the most comprehensive if tests. but we am pleases with their resluts! How grammatically sound are you?

Damn Booze Monkeys kidnapped me again last night near Waterloo Station. They held me against my will until I was really drunk. Somebody should do something about them. I have an awful feeling that said monkeys are waiting for me tonight near Soho.

situated_software wikipedia wikiwikiweb all very cool ideas above, communities (online/offline) self-maintaining a knowledge base, something much more real about the concept. Are we seeing the localisation of the interweb thingy? As described in the first link, its fine to build enterprise software designed to scale to millions, but why shouldn’t apps be built for only [...]