Category: Stuff that doesn’t fit in another category

  • Teams played sports? Not today, thank you Tweetdeck

    Apparently there’s some sort of big sporting event on at the moment in Brazil.  I didn’t realise it was Olympics time already. I am, according to large swathes of the media, supposed to care. Amazingly, the media (and the General Public) doesn’t seem to understand that there are people who Just Don’t Care.  Never have.…

  • Of Mice and What?

    So, our Education Minister (Michael Gove at the moment) has decreed that Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”, someone else’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and similar “classics of American Literature” are to be removed from the GCSE English syllabus.  It must be true, it says so in the papers. Look! Not even a link from the…

  • Insert Witty, Thought-Provoking and Clever Post Here

    I had a brilliant blog post all lined up.  I really did.  It was going to make you laugh, cry, think long and hard about life, and, ultimately, leave the world a better place. Then this creature took a stroll across the keyboard. Why!?!  Why do we let these evil creatures into our homes, our…