December 15, 2006
Let us now praise..
Operational Honours - Full List - Times Online
Afghanistan
Victoria Cross: Corporal Bryan James Budd, The Parachute Regiment (killed in action).
George Cross: Corporal Mark William Wright, The Parachute Regiment (killed in action).
Mrs Budd received the VC on behalf of her husband, who died in August. Although injured, he continued with a lone assault on the Taleban, “attacking and killing the enemy as he rushed their position. His action inspired the rest of the platoon, who had taken cover after coming under enemy fire. They reorganised and mounted an attack, eliminating more Taleban and eventually forcing their withdrawal. When Corporal Budd’s body was later recovered, it was found surrounded by three dead Taleban.”
Corporal Budd, 29, from Ripon, North Yorkshire, had been involved in an earlier attack, on July 27, in which he also displayed exceptional courage while rescuing a wounded colleague under fire.
Mrs Budd, a clerk in the Royal Artillery, said: “Bryan will always be remembered by me as a loving husband and father to our two beautiful daughters, Isabelle and Imogen.” Imogen was born a month after Corporal Budd died. He is only the second recipient of the VC in 24 years.
Corporal Wright, 27, from Edinburgh, was killed while trying to save comrades trapped in a minefield in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan.
These stories are buried in the inside pages with the front pages taken up with froth and nonsense about poltroons, spivs and air-heads. I'm sure I'm not alone in preferring these men to Di, Dodi, Toni and Levy....
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April 14, 2006
Pain
BBC NEWS | Health | Foetuses 'cannot experience pain'
Foetuses cannot feel pain because it requires mental development that only occurs outside the womb, says a report in the British Medical Journal.
Dr Stuart Derbyshire, of the University of Birmingham, said a baby's actions and relationships with carers enabled it to process the subjectivity of pain. ..
"Pain is something that comes from our experiences and develops due to stimulation and human interaction.
"It involves concepts such as location, feelings of unpleasantness and having the sensation of pain.
"Pain becomes possible because of a psychological development that begins at birth when the baby is separated from the protected atmosphere of the womb and is stimulated into wakeful activity."
Dr Derbyshire said whether or not foetuses felt pain did not affect the abortion debate because it did not change the moral viewpoints of the pro-choice and pro-life lobby, or the legality of terminations.
So as pain is only felt after "human interaction etc" it is still alright to dissect unanaesthetised live dogs to study the blood flow is it? All that howling and squirming can't be reacting to pain can it? Or have we moved on from the medieval period?
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July 11, 2005
How "normal" are you?
Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher...
Some people, including some people diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, argue that Asperger's syndrome is a social construct. Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the Autism Research Centre has written a book arguing that Asperger's syndrome is an extreme version of the way in which men's brains differ from women's. He says that, in general, men are better at systematizing than women, and that women are better at empathizing than men.
A Wired Magazine article called The Geek Syndrome suggested that Asperger's syndrome is more common in the Silicon Valley, a haven for computer scientists and mathematicians. It created an enduring myth popularized in the media and self-help books that "Geek Syndrome" equals Asperger's syndrome, and precipitated a rash of self-diagnoses. Though these conditions do share traits, there is a consensus that most geeks are arguably "variant normal" and do not exhibit autistic-spectrum behaviors. "Geeks" may exhibit an extreme professional or casual interest in computers, science, engineering and related fields, and may be introverted; however, they do not suffer from impairments per se. This does not imply that there is no overlap between "geeks" and Asperger's patients, but it should be noted that self-diagnosis is a dangerous practice, and one prone to error.
Thanks goodness it is "prone to error" as I scored 45...
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June 28, 2005
Come fly with me!
Google Earth is a standalone application that's essentially an enhanced and upgraded version of its Keyhole 3D satellite imagery product. As Google has done with several of its past acquisitions, the company has also made the application free to all users, dropping its annual subscription fee for the basic version. Google Earth Plus with additional features will cost $20 per year.
Google Earth is designed to make it easy to "fly" to aerial views of many locations on the planet. Currently, the application has detailed imagery for the U.S., Canada and the U.K. and 38 major cities in other countries, as well as medium to high resolution terrain imagery for the entire world.
The application is a "console" with controls allowing you manipulate 3D satellite imagery of the Earth in a viewer directly above the controls. When you first start the application, your view is of the entire globe. You can either use the controls or Google Earth's search functions to zoom in on a specific location.
Wow wow wow!
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June 24, 2005
Where's that global warming when you need it?
After a break of 24 years I'm going to an Oxford May Ball this evening - and what is happening to our heatwave ? uk.weather.com - Oxford Weather. Bugger. Still it will be good to go back to St John's. I'm too old for this staying up lark, still I should be alright as long as I don't call any police horses gay!
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June 14, 2005
Recommendation 2
The right eye has been becoming weaker and weaker - I blame the Internet - so much so I have been toying with starting to shoot left handed as the target has become a blur even with my glasses.
But last week I went for an eye test, they said the prescription was only slightly different, but I ought to have new glasses. A quick look at the prices in the Opticians, 170, 250 , plus this, plus that, had me feeling my way out for a quick reviver.
A local firm, though they may as well be in Hong Kong, came to my rescue. Excellent service, the glasses came in four days and when I went shooting last night, for the first time ever I could see the bull as a focused dot! Now I have to find another excuse!
So my recommendation goes to:-
glassesdirect.co.uk
How to avoid the UK glasses rip off
1. Get an eye test at a high street optician
2. Buy online, using your prescription
3. Receive your glasses
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defrag C: -f
The old computer I blog from has been becoming slower and more annoying as time goes on, a bit like me really. For some reason the Windows XP defragger won't work, the MMC is missing in action or something - which also means other defraggers like Diskeeper also wont work. But yesterday I found the answer - the Command Line. The old ways still work, thank goodness for "conservatism".
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April 20, 2005
German Jokes - Part III
Knock, knock
Whos there?
Federal Express
Federal Express who?
I dont know. I just deliver packages.
Knock, knock
Whos there?
Tom.
Tom who?
Tom Buchanan.
Hi Tom.
Knock knock
Whos there?
Pizza delivery guy.
Pizza delivery guy who?
You ordered a pizza?
Yes.
Im the guy delivering it.
Great.
And before anyone complains, yes I borrowed them from somewhere else! _ but I must get Google back sending people to my site for German Jokes and not for Paula Radcliffe Pissing Pictures, which is what most of my visitors today have been after.
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A new one for the Favourites folder
Google Maps, Google Local launches for Britain and Ireland - Wikinews
April 20, 2005
Google has extended its mapping (http://maps.google.co.uk/) and local searching (http://local.google.co.uk/) services to the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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April 18, 2005
Competiton
Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
Das Englander Castle Average 1022.33 2304.44 5218.61 85.39 MB
The Competition Average 1151.33 2125.22 14263.28 647.65 MB
And the Bastard can shoot straighter, but I think I can pee higher up the wall.
But when we look at his class of visitors I think the difference really tells, here are the search phrase that bring visitors to the sites:
Search Keyphrases (Top 10)
haiti 4.8 %
paula radcliffe toilet 4.5 %
paula radcliffe toilet break 3.2 %
paula radcliffe toilet picture 1.1 %
paula radcliffe marathon toilet 0.8 %
hate 0.8 %
radcliffe toilet marathon 0.6 %
free market 0.6 %
paula radcliffe toilet pictures 0.5 %
how to kill a chicken 0.5 %
Which seems to me to show a certain lavatorial bent in his readers, whereas I think you, gentle reader, show a much nobler inclination; three latin phrases in the top ten for instance!
german jokes 3.6 %
rent a german 2.6 %
honi soit qui mal y pense 1.1 %
where does oil come from 1 %
bos primigenius 0.9 %
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem 0.7 %
syllabub 0.4 %
defending a castle 0.4 %
otis ferry 0.4 %
flying pigs 0.4 %
So stick with the Castle for a cultured debate!
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Britain's Golden Shower Girl
Just glancing at my referrers this morning I noticed a heap of perverts looking for Google Search: paula radcliffe london marathon piddle and Pee and Shit etc.
Which perplexed me. Not wanting to disappoint my visitors I did some research. I rescued the sports pages from the bin and looked through - Yee Gods the bloody woman just squatted down and took a dump on the side of the road, in front of the crowds and live on TV - Photo. And they say she is an inspiration to the young. I tell you athletics are bad for your body - have you seen the state she is in? I couldn't fancy that even after six months in solitary ; bad for your brain - have you ever heard an intelligent word spoken by an athlete - they have to use a coach to learn how to breathe, for Gods sake; and bad for society.
And people want the Olympics in London - it might be acceptable to squat in the gutter in Paris - in fact I believe it is the norm. But in London?
If I want to see women peeing I believe there are clubs for that sort of thing - not on the streets please.
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New word of the week
World Wide Words is always a good read - this weeks newsletter (one week ahead of the web page) introduces us to this useful word:
"Drachenfutter",
"dragon fodder", the peace offering German husbands make to their wives when they have engaged in some inappropriate behaviour.
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April 15, 2005
British Hospitality
So this Texan who visits the UK to sample Wadworth's 6X and other fine beers is in London and decides to explore the city on his own. He wanders around, seeing the sights, and occasionally stopping at a quaint pub to soak up the local culture, chat with the lads, and have a pint of bitter.
After a while, he finds himself in a very high-class area...big, stately residences... no pubs, no shops, no restaurants, and worst of all... NO PUBLIC TOILETS. He really, really has to go, after all those pints of bitter.
He finds a narrow side street, with high walls surrounding the adjacent buildings and decides to use the wall to solve his problem. As he is unzipping, he is tapped on the shoulder by a London Bobby, who says, "I say, sir, you simply cannot do that here, you know."
"I'm very sorry, officer," replies the American, "but I really, really HAVE TO GO, and I just can't find a public toilet."
"Ah, yes," said the Bobby, "Just follow me".
He leads him to a back "delivery alley", then along a wall to a gate,
which he opens.
"In there," points the Bobby. "Whiz away Sir, anywhere you want."
The fellow enters and finds himself in the most beautiful garden he has ever seen. Manicured grass lawns, statuary, fountains, sculptured hedges, and huge beds of gorgeous flowers, all in perfect bloom. Since he has the cop's blessing, he unburdens himself and is greatly relieved.
As he goes back through the gate, he says to the Bobby, "That was really decent of you... is that what you call "British Hospitality?"
"No sir", replied the Bobby, "That is what we call the French Embassy.
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April 13, 2005
A different sort of Double Barrel
Spartan Gunworks :: Rifles & Combos Shotgun Upper / Centerfire Rifle Lower - Rifle/Shotgun Combo - now how would I get that on my ticket?
They also do 410 shotgun / .22 Rimfire rifle combo gun!
via Kim
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April 12, 2005
Die Spam, Die!
SpamLookup is a new MT plugin to kill Spam - If you have an MT blog, go get it and install, until we can use cattle prods on spammers it is the best we can do.
(Mr FM - as you were - it is up and running on your blog - check the main page for its control panel.)
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April 7, 2005
Happy Dance II
It is not the Present Mrs Englishman's Birthday today and any suggestion that, if it was, it would be a significant number involved is scurrilous, but that is me done for the day - off to party!
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Happy Dance 1
A year or so ago I refused to deal with a company as I thought they were crooks, and my refusal caused certain problesm. So imagine my delight this morning to see that the FTC is keeping $1.5m of their money as a settlement!
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March 31, 2005
Headache
Urgh! Rough as Badger's Arse this morning - cold streaming out every oriface, guts as rotten as a nu-labour promise and the Englishettes have brought a sickness bug back to The Castle. Combined with a few beers with the Good Colonel last night - "So what are these Bloggie things then?" - and I am not a well bunny. If I can leave off driving the Porcelain Bus for long enough - IPA, Pork Scratchings and Gaviscon don't look any better the second time round - I will try and make use of my enforced leisure by filling in the most important form this year.
My subsidy application: Punching the numbers in to the FWi - Single Farm Payment Calculator it looks OK for the next ten years, provided no one goes and upsets the EU applecart.
And once that it is done it will be filling in the Entry Level Stewardship application.
And of course the Countryside Stewardship Scheme still has another eight years to run on this farm. I tell you it is hard work being a farmer these days..
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March 25, 2005
Help your non-local blogger
Young Tim Worstall stuck out in foreign parts away from the comforts of Blighty asks for your help - he has a cunning plan in which 90 seconds of your time keeps him in the style he wishes to enjoy - just the odd beer and meal. It is easy and painless and I have done my bit - why not go and help as well. It won't cost you a European Cent.
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March 24, 2005
Support your local blogger
Other bloggers may offer T-Shirts or mugs or caps but I thought An Englishman's Castle ought to be different: So here it is:
Rawlings 232 Wooden Baseball Bat handsigned by The Englishman with your choice of inscription - Legendary Adirondack northern white ash for optimum wood grain. 2.5" barrel, natural finish. 33" Adult size. - 25 - ideal for playing Rounders or whatever the American version is - I can't think of any other uses....
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March 22, 2005
Gmail geeky help
Gmail Notifier stopped working on all my machines - bad data error - the cure I found is to delete all your Google and Gmail cookies whilst the Notifier is not running. Or even just delete all your cookies ( from tools on the Interent Explorer menus.)
End of Public Service Broadcast.
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March 16, 2005
Great Management Moments
So I was pontificating again the other day about management styles and thought I ought to start writing that Management Guru book that I have inside. Can't decide between calling it "The ARSE Management Book" (ARSE - obviously standing for Anticipate, Rehearse, Speculate, Execute - the secret of being in control) or else "Pig Farming Secrets for Senior Management". Things like it is easier to move a pig with a bucket of food than to push it; If you beat a pig too often it may turn and bite you; If you let the pig think it is deciding where to go it will go there; And pigs know when it is time for market because the farmer stops tickling them behind the ears a week or so beforehand... Your help in deciding this would be welcome.
And in the hope of drumming up some advance orders let me tell you of one of my triumphs:
In a previous life I was presenting on why our fledgling company was positioned to take the world by storm, we had some competitors in Europe but we had identified them and we had mapped out the market sectors where we could beat them, and once we had established a toehold we could surround them and beat them. We also didn't have to worry about the American competition because they weren't going to turn up for a couple of years and we could then sell ourselves to them, make a lot of money and retire happy.
Knowing my potential investors I spiced the presentation with this map, subtly changed to show competitors names and market sectors.
Bigger
Went down well, great visual imagery illustrated the plan. We got the first investment. The map took pride of place in the office. So with our new money we invited over the potential big client, the one we had to win to set the rest of the plan rolling. They liked our technical stuff, the figures stacked up but the meeting was sticky and we never got the deal. It was only after they left to catch the flight back to Berlin that I noticed the map behind my head. Germans - no sense of humour.....
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March 8, 2005
Just got better
Google Desktop Search Download - out of Beta and now supports Firefox and Thunderbird. Essential tool.
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Wave as you say goodbye
MyBlogLog tracks your blog's outgoing links - neat.
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March 6, 2005
Sinister Gun Trade
I escaped my Oubliette this afternoon to try out the Martini Action BSA I bought last week in the dark from a man in the Pub car park. (passim). The Son and Heir and I loosed off a few shots at the various damaged crockery I had scavenged and then I thought I would try a cunning scheme. One of my many troubles with shooting is that my right eye suffers from astigmatism so I can't see the bloody target. So as no one was around I thought I would try shooting off the left shoulder. What a strange feeling that is - a bit like using your left hand....Well at least I could see the target, and I hit it - not sure though if it is worth persevering trying this out or whether to continue to squint down the range. But the biggest surprise was finding out that the Martini has a bloody left handed stock, and I hadn't noticed in the dark. That will teach me to do dodgy dealings. Still I have the consolation in knowing there is a man in Texas who covets it!
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March 4, 2005
Friday night fun
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March 1, 2005
Peter wants a rise - some tips
Cuthbertson's Conservative Commentary causes concern, can't capture consumers consistently.
1) Site visit figures are unreliable.
2) If you want visits you have to feed the beast every day. Readers want something new.
3) Don't try and write to get visitors. Write to tell a mate down the pub what interests you and you think he would be interested in - or perform pinpoint surgery on targets which others can then pick up on.
4) Get the length right. If you do snippets do them well, they are the little savouries that should leave a lingering taste; if you do long articles, you are asking people to invest a lot of time in reading, make it worth their while every time.
5) Don't expect too much - I expect 40 visits a day here - I get a few more and am very happy.
6) Full disclosure - the adverts on this site have earned me $3.19 over the last year - but on my other Blog which I only spend a couple of minutes a day on - I average $150-$200 a month. The difference is that the other blog is tightly focused on a specific niche, no ego involved. This one is just my playground.
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Martini Action
Wasted half of last night by going to some bloody PartnerShip meeting where various people argue about Five Year Plans and Land Use Restrictions and getting money from various arms of the Government. All will be right with the world if we have Arts and Crafts Learning Workshops and not houses and when someone mentioned ASDA the word Walmart was hissed...Socialist planning is alive and well at local level.
But the night got better as I popped into the pub to spend an hour or so filling out Firearm Certificates etc. Eight photos supplied and countersigned by two referees...
But at least I managed to buy an old BSA Martini action rifle from a man in the Pub - who then had to push start the Pikeymobile to get it started so I could drive home.....
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February 26, 2005
Zostered
Mrs Englishman and I went out for dinner last night - I was under strict instructions to behave. Previous Dinner parties have resulted in a certain coolness in the air the next morning - the one where I went out for a Rugby Club lunch and I hoped they wouldn't notice how drunk I was when we arrived. As Basil Fawlty said "I think I got away with it" - but apparently I told a most unsuitable joke... And then when we went to mix with some nice people, all went well until she said "when my horse goes toilet". To THE toilet you stupid woman, and bloody horses don't go "to toilet"; they stale. Learn the proper word... And then the one where I thought I had nothing wrong, and she didn't let on for a week the reason for the marital frostiness was that I went to sleep at the table for twenty minutes - I didn't fall into the pudding though... and the time I had an allergic reaction to the Kedgereee and it looked like they had had Bobby Sands in decorating the Bathroom ....
So best behaviour last night - bugger, I went to sleep on the sofa before the coffees - deep doodah yet again.
So I woke this morning with:
General feeling of malaise
Headache
Vision abnormalities
Taste abnormalities
Drooping eyelid (ptosis)
Loss of eye motion etc.
And it gets worse - the Englishettes are going down with Chicken Pox - routine vaccinations don't happen in the UK. And guess what? I have never bloody had Chicken Pox. So I'm feeling itches everywhere as I imagine I'm being invaded and reading articles such as MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Herpes zoster to see the symptoms (such as above)...
I'm doomed Captain Mainwaring, doomed I tell you - the red cross has been painted on the door and I am carrying a bell...
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February 22, 2005
Help request - especially from Texans
Regular readers might know that my wife tries to help a local charity (The Devizes Opportunity Center) to raise money.
This year there is an idea to hold a Chili Cookoff in the summer - but we are Limeys and have never been to one and don't have any idea how to hold one - any help really appreciated.
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I may be some time
Little man, what now? is a newish blog on the scene - seems fairly sound except they appear to like cats. Go and say Hi!
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February 17, 2005
They are all after my money..
Tim Worstall and L'Ombre de l'Olivier are after my million pounds - hah! I say! It is mine and I have started to spend it already. Just as soon as I get through on the phone +1.303617393468 I will be rich!
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February 16, 2005
How fashionable are you?
The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager
To begin start typing in a name!
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It is not often they leave their telephone number available....
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Dead Tree Blog
All Consuming is a website that visits recently updated weblogs every hour, checking them for links to books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Sense, and other book sites. Every book on this site has a list of all the weblogs that have mentioned it, and every weblog that has mentioned books in the past also has a page here listing which books it has mentioned.
The last thing I need is more books on my "to read" list - but this is fascinating - it utilises the dispersed knowledge filtering of Blogs to pick out some great Books...
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February 15, 2005
Support the fight against Islamofascists and Global Warming Scaremongers
The Present Mrs Englishman went out walking today with the Girl and the Spare Girl and discovered my Brother and I loading up the pigs into a Transport Box - whoops, "Yes, Darling, they are going on Holiday"...
So I'm in deep Do-dos, and she doesn't yet realise they are coming back nicely wrapped in clingfilm in handy oven sized joints in a day or so..
Shit - I need help - please someone buy some of this excellent Happy Pork - reared outside with lots of TLC - they didn't even mind the Shoulder Slapping - Cheap - And you know none of our Raghead friends will be sharing it, and before I started this second bottle of really rather good Claret I thought of a reason why the Green Nazis wouldn't either, but I have forgotten it now..
The Previous Mrs Englishman has bought half a pig as has her father and her new man's best mate so it must be good..
Look: Tim Worstall wants your empty inkjet cartridges and what does he offer in return? No yummy mouth feel, no juicy grease running down your chin, no individually tattooed bits of meat for you delectation, no Yum yum at all. You know it makes sense.
And did I mention it is cheap?
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Good News
The Heir has been fitted with a swanky new Titanium plate rather than the previous Vinegar and Brown paper contraption. All going well so far, so I'm slowly working my way through a bottle of decent Claret and then off to bed. Driving up and back to the local NHS hospital an hour away is taking up blogging time - apologies.
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February 2, 2005
Oh no what have I downloaded now...
WikidPad - wiki notebook/outliner for windows
wikidPad is a real-time wiki
wikidPad is not a web server, or application server, or groupware solution. wikidPad is a standalone notepad like application, albeit notepad on steroids. wikidPad is like an IDE for your thoughts.
Seems like a great idea now - what will I think in the morning?
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Where am I?
UKBlogger map
Oh, there I am...
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January 26, 2005
SNAFU
Kim du Toit - Daily Rant has changed URL - blogroll the new one!
(Login doesn't seem to be working at the moment if tech support sees this.)
Neil Armstrong - has gone anonymous - so has been struck from the Roll. Jees, he is worried about his Mum finding out he blogs, imagine my grief if the present Mrs Englishman finds out what I'm doing on the computer - she thinks I'm looking for porn or something harmless not blogging......
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January 25, 2005
Sorry..
Error Message Generator gives me this:
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Education Education Education
A year ago a post here - An Englishman's Castle: Chavs - was one of the first reporters on Chavs - the entry still gets comments - such as this gem today from, presumably, a Chav:
uz lot r jst sad god ur disin ppl ryt n u probz dnt even no ne chavz dat wel ne wayz. go get a lyf n stop getin involvd wiv stuf dat dnt mata. u no if u spent as much tym finkin bout wot ur doin dan wot uva ppl r doin u myt not al b snobby twats.
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January 21, 2005
Comments
Sorry - didn't notice that comments died yesterday - email if you want to say something! I will see if I can prod them back into action but I suspect a massive spam attack has caused the host to disable them.
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January 19, 2005
AntiSpam move
MT-Blacklist Massive weblog anti-spam initiative: rel="nofollow"
(Cutting out) the rotting flesh that the (spam) maggots sought out in the first place.
If you run an MT powered blog go and do this easy step - if you don't ignore this post. If you owe me a pint you know who you are!
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January 17, 2005
Its Trigger Time!
Of course I refute Mr Laban Tall's suggestion:
"Mr Free Market and the Englishman are already as close as two men can be without having to sign one of Mr Livingstone's civic unions."
However, I did spend some time yesterday with Mr Free Market ....
Sunday Trigger Time
Well it made me smile- large download.
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King Billy - The Answers
"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est."
Continue for the Answers.
1 1 - Rockall (wreck of Norge); 2 - Oseberg ship; 3 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh (the Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow); 4 - Sisavang Vong of Laos; 5 - Anton Chekhov; 6 - Madame Butterfly; 7 - Royal Horticultural Society; 8 - St Louis (third Olympic Games); 9 - Fire on paddle steamer General Slocum in New York harbour; 10 - launching of TrSS Manxman
2 1 - Francis Davey (Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn); 2 - The Vicar of Bray; 3 - Rev Sam Weech (The Titfield Thunderbolt); 4 - William Collins (Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice); 5 - Mr Chadband (Charles Dickens - Bleak House); 6 - Mr Roundhay (Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Devil's Foot); 7 - Mr Brocklehurst (Charlotte Bront - Jane Eyre); 8 - Dr Daly (W S Gilbert - The Sorcerer); 9 - Rev John Laputa (John Buchan - Prester John); 10 - Rev Josiah Crawley (Anthony Trollope - Framley Parsonage)
3 1 - Walker Art Gallery (George Stubbs); 2 - the Boswells (Carla Lane - Bread); 3 - Sir John and Cecil Moores; 4 - Wellington/Waterloo Monument (Melville Monument); 5 - Carl Bernard Bartels (Sculptor of the Liver Birds); 6 - Mersey Rail Tunnel (1886); 7 - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1856-7); 8 - Adelphi Hotel; 9 - Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas (1810); 10 - Custom House (Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days)
4 1 - Mary Wilson; 2 - Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen; 3 - Dr Edward Pritchard; 4 - Dr Neill Cream; 5 - Frederick Gordon Radford; 6 - Lady Frances Howard, Countess of Essex; 7 - Dr Henry George Lamson; 8 - Graham Young; 9 - John Armstrong; 10 - Major Herbert Armstrong
5 1 - Deal pier (1873); 2 - Cromer pier (1993); 3 - Bangor pier (1914); 4 - Southend-on-Sea pier (1908); 5 - Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth (1859); 6 - Penarth pier (1947); 7 - Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) pier (1876); 8 - North pier, Blackpool (1897); 9 - Saltburn pier (1924); 10 - Skegness pier (1919)
6 1 - Vasa Loppet (Swedish long distance ski race); 2 - Glacier Express; 3 - Offa's Dyke Path; 4 - Pennine Way; 5 - Leighton Buzzard Light Railway; 6 - Wuppertal Schwebabahn (monorail); 7 - E20; 8 - Hadrian's Wall; 9 - Channel Tunnel; 10 - Barcelona Metro
7 1 - James I to Anne of Denmark; 2 - William I to Matilda of Flanders (Eu); 3 - Henry VI to Margaret of Anjou (Titchfield Abbey); 4 - Edward IV to Elizabeth Grey nee Woodville (Grafton Regis); 5 - Henry VIII to Jane Seymour; 6 - Edward I to Eleanor of Castille (Las Huelgas); 7 - Richard I to Berengaria of Navarre (Limassol); 8 - Charles II to Catherine of Braganza (Portsmouth); 9 - William IV to Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen; 10 - Edward III to Philippa of Hainault
8 1 - William Tell; 2 - King William IV; 3 - Williamsburg (Virginia); 4 - Williamanmary (Sellar & Yeatman - 1066 And All That); 5 - Sir William Hardy (Rainbow Warrior); 6 - Prince William Sound (Exxon Valdes, 1989); 7 - Father William (Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland); 8 - William the Lawless (Richmal Crompton); 9 - King William II; 10 - Sweet William
9 1 - Yes Tor (Devon); 2 - Ben Lomond (trad. Scottish song - Loch Lomond); 3 - Snowdon (John Betjeman - A Bay in Anglesey); 4 - Bredon Hill (A E Housman - A Shropshire Lad); 5 - Brandon Mountain (Co. Kerry - St Brendan); 6 - Plynlimon (Lewis Glen Cothi in George Borrow - Wild Wales); 7 - Leith Hill (Surrey); 8 - Black Combe (William Wordsworth - View from the top of Black Combe); 9 - Ben Bulben (W B Yeats - Under Ben Bulben); 10 - Malvern (Lord Macaulay - The Armada)
10 1 - Leonard Bernstein; 2 - Sir Jacob Epstein; 3 - Helena Rubinstein; 4 - Frankenstein; 5 - Wallenstein; 6 - Albert Einstein; 7 - Sergei Eisenstein (The Battleship Potemkin, 1925); 8 - Karl Bechstein 9 - Sir John Rothenstein; 10 - Field Marshal Fritz von Manstein (operation to relieve Stalingrad)
11 1 - White's Club, 69 St James's Street (1733 - Hogarth); 2 - Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (356BC - birth of Alexander the Great); 3 - Rome (AD64 - Nero); 4 - Reichstag, Berlin (1933); 5 - Matilda (Hilaire Belloc); 6 - Harrods (1883); 7 - lesund, Norway (1904); 8 - Argyll Concert Rooms, London (1830); 9 - Great Fire of London (1666); 10 - Chicago (1871)
12 1 - Jonathan Edwards (triple jump world record, Gothenburg, 1995); 2 - Cambridge University VIII (Boat Race record time, 1998); 3 - Jim Laker (England v Australia, Old Trafford, 1956); 4 - Greg Norman (record four round score, Open Championship, Sandwich, 1993); 5 - Arsenal (unbeaten Premiership record, 2003/2004); 6 - Jack Hobbs (career batting record); 7 - Bjrn Borg (v John McEnroe, Wimbledon Final, 1980); 8 - Paula Radcliffe (Marathon World Record, London, 2003); 9 - Roger Bannister (four-minute mile, Oxford, 1954); 10 - John McGuinness (outright mountain circuit lap record, Formula 1 TT, Isle of Man, 2004)
13 1 - Wight (French name); 2 - Irish Sea; 3 - Hebrides (Overture); 4 - Trafalgar; 5 - German Bight (Heligoland until 1956); 6 - Dogger; 7 - Bailey; 8 - Fisher (Bud, cartoonist); 9 - Lundy; 10 - FitzRoy (Capt Robert Fitzroy, first director of Met Office)
14 1 - Brown Hairstreak butterfly; 2 - Brown Clee (Shropshire); 3 - Father Brown (G K Chesterton); 4 - brown sauce; 5 - Thomas Brown ("I do not love thee Dr Fell"); 6 - Brown's Hotel (London); 7 - John Brown (militant abolitionist - 1859); 8 - Walnut Brown (Sherry - Williams and Humbert); 9 - Brown on Resolution (CS Forester); 10 - Brownshirts (SA)
15 1 - The Peach State; 2 - On Blueberry Hill; 3 - gooseberry; 4- International Date Line (Kiribati, 1994/5); 5 - Pears soap; 6 - Canaan Sodindo Banana (Zimbabwe, 1980-7); 7 - Harry Lime (Graham Greene - The Third Man); 8 - cherry-picker; 9 - Mark Lemon (founder and first editor of Punch); 10 - Plum Warner (MCC in Australia, 1932/3)
16 1 - Duntisbourne (Gloucestershire); 2 - Hemingford (Huntingdonshire); 3 - Manningford (Wiltshire); 4 - Lillingstone (Buckinghamshire); 5 - Ashford (Shropshire); 6 - Kibworth (Leicestershire); 7 - Carew (Pembrokeshire); 8 - Cropwell (Nottinghamshire); 9 - Pillerton (Warwickshire); 10 - Itchen (Hampshire)
17 1 - foxtrot; 2 - Edward Fox; 3 - The Red Fox (R L Stevenson - Kidnapped); 4 - the quick brown fox; 5 - The Fox and the Goat; 6 - The Foxglove (William Withering); 7 - George Fox (Society of Friends); 8 - The Springfield Fox; 9 - Uffa Fox (Flying Fifteen yacht); 10 - Fox Glacier (South Island, New Zealand)
18 1 - Kelly Holmes (Olympic gold medals at 800 and 1500 metres); 2 - Crystal Palace (Hollioake relay world record for CHASE); 3 - Calayan Rail (previously unknown bird in Philippines); 4 - King William's College General Knowledge Paper (motto); 5 - Mike Ruddock (six Joneses in Welsh Rugby XV); 6 - Geoffrey Rees-Jones's (former headmaster, King William's College); 7 - Princess Alice; 8 - Eurostat Yearbook (map on cover omitted Wales); 9 - Charley (hurricanes/Florida); 10 - Fred Dibnah (steam tractor at his funeral).
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January 11, 2005
It's on
The Hunt is meeting on the Castle Lawn this morning at 11:00 - hopefully pictures later - if you can make it come along.
Before I make the Mulled wine I have to pop into the shop to check in two dozen mink and seal skin coats we have coming in for sale.
And of course I'm feeling a bit politically incorrect today because the 50 Horse Chestnuts for planting arrived yesterday - and we all know they are dangerous and should be banned.
Posted by The Englishman at 8:25 AM
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