We had somewhat of a family outing this weekend, and as I’d recently re-located my digital camera, I’ve been flickr’ing about again. If you don’t like diary style posts, then you’ll probably want to make your excuses and leave now. Still here? Let’s get started then. We had something of a family outing on Sunday: [...]

Apparently, there’s a cat at a nursing home in the US that can predict when patients are going to die, and it’s somewhat baffling the doctors. According to the author of an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be correct in 25 cases so far… Staff [...]

A couple of months ago, I first mentioned the corridor art in my workplace, when our corridor was being used to hang various artworks in prior to distribution elsewhere around the building. I said that it was nice, it brightened up the corridors and while I obviously didn’t like every piece, it was still nice [...]

I notice my home town are offering The Gateshead Award — basically, a medal what gets presented by the Mayor — and they’re opening it up to nominations from the general public. So, if you know someone who is 18 or older, lives or works in Gateshead, and gives his or her own time to [...]

Well, in neither case could I phrase it better than Freddie did himself: They say you should only say good things about people, so I’ll say this: he’s gone – good!Freddie Shepherd

This joke kindly donated by Lee Gardner, who is desperate to see his name in print…

This little scheme came about because the conversation turned to what sort of songs someone was going to use as a wedding song, and obviously the lads then piped up with their suggestions, which weren’t always entirely appropriate. The whole thing then metamorphosed into the idea of coming up with the least appropriate songs to [...]

I’ve just been reading the final Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Given that Harry is such a publishing phenomenon, I wanted to talk about it here (and ideally get there before Stephen Lang does). However, I don’t think it’s fair to include plot spoilers or to talk too much about what [...]

The world is divided into 10 kinds of people. Those that understand binary…

Here’s one for you Wii buffs out there: what are your standings in the various Wii Sports? I’m currently the tennis champion, and professional in another two events, while not particularly playing the last two because I don’t like ‘em. For any of you with an interest, the run down is as follows: Tennis: 2242 [...]