Category: The Dark Side

Praise where praise is due

I know we don’t talk about the Dark Side here, but you could have knocked me down with a feather!

The other day I posted there to tell Kate Day about a significant bug in the Disqus routines.   Today, to my great surprise, she came back to tell me that Disqus had found the fault and issued a fix; she added her thanks.

Wonders will never cease! 😆

I wonder if the fix will actually work?
Later: I checked – it does, but it also introduces further faults.   Doh!   I’ve e-mailed Kate. 😕

Honestly you couldn’t make this up…

Thursday, late lunch-time- and only a small window of time, but may just enough to nick across the road from the office where I was based that day, to get to the cash-point, and pick up some spends ready for the reunion weekend and to put the promised £10 on Techie’s phone, plus get a bite to eat from the Co-op?

The first hurdle was the pedestrian crossing. Dum-de-dum. Come on. So slow….but not worth the risk of trying to run across with lorries thundering past.

Then I reached the cash-point and with the sun glare on the green screen I couldn’t see the display, but I pushed in my card and then shaded the screen with my hands.
Still no display.
Darn it, I thought -or words to that effect, it’s not working.
I pressed the card return and no card rolled back out… but instead, weirdly,  a small screw driver head poked out and waved around – a bit like a worm blindly sniffing the air. I looked about — looking for the camera. Surely this was some kind off joke? Continue reading “Honestly you couldn’t make this up…”

US Tax dollars funding bacha bazi

It would appear that via a government contractor in Afghanistan, a company called DynCorp,  US Tax dollars are funding a practice known as ‘bacha bazi’. That’s paederasty to you and me. DynCorp pays for young boys to ‘entertain’ tribal leaders in order to gain their cooperation. Wikileaks has exposed it, but for some reason it has not become a scandal of global proportions.

http://www.realsportszone.com/wikileaks-dyncorp-pimps-young-afghan-boys-for-bacha-bazi/

 

New Year’s Eve Present

Sometimes, when something’s really bothering me I’ll get up in the night and write a letter, to whomsoever it may concern. This usually means a series of versions being written out in neater and neater script, maybe in a more tactful way each time, and eventually I will feel better and even, on occasion, I’ll go back to bed for a few more hours kip. Continue reading “New Year’s Eve Present”