An Adelaide Woman.
A young Adelaide woman was so depressed that she decided to end her life by throwing herself into the sea, but just before she could throw herself from the wharf, a handsome young man stopped her. Continue reading “A variation of an old joke”
Downloads, legal or otherwise, are affecting sales in CDS/DVDS. E-books are damaging paperbacks. DRS technology is interrupting the flow of live sports. Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel peace prize made satire redundant (that one is © Tom Lehrer). David Miliband mutated from Sonny to Fredo when Ed led the family business. Apart from watches, digital crushed analogue. Continue reading “Slideshows killed the flip chart”
This morning Boadicea received two e-mails, one of which purported to come from Janus, and the other from me. They didn’t, of course. The other recipients (addressees) of these two spoof e-mails were people who blog on The Chariot or on MyT, so you may have received them too.
I did a little research – e-mail protocols were not one of my specialist fields when I was still working, but the old brain hasn’t quite rusted yet. Continue reading “A little more about spoofed e-mails”
How many people have heard of Maryam Namazie?
Maryam is a campaigner for ‘One Law for All’ in the UK, and is disturbed by ‘the silence of parts of the media and the inaction by the British government over what she says are sharia’s attacks on the fundamental rights of Britain’s Muslim citizens.’
What I find so encouraging are the numbers of Muslims who seem to be supporting her cause.
It was interesting to read the Janus and Sipu takes on working women. It so happens that they are both different to my own experience and beliefs. No less valid but just different.
Janus wrote – ‘Further education for women was extremely elitist’. Not in Jockland it wasn’t. My maternal grandfather was the son of a tenant farmer. On his return from Gallipoli, having served there with the Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, he quarreled irrevocably with his parents because they had nominated his younger brother as the reserved worker rather than him.
Continue reading “Working Women Revisited”
Not all doom and gloom in the lines…
Depending on the website I visit the Libyan leader (well he is as I go to press) Gaddaffi’s surname changes. I’ve seen Gadhafi, Kadaffi and Quadaffi on my travels. It seems there are 112 ways to spell the tyrant’s name. Even his “Christian” name is problematic with Muammar or Moammar the top two in the charts.
Another guy who gives me headaches is Mahmoud Abbas or Abu Mazen as he is sometimes called. This man with two names should make his mind up. You don’t see our newspapers writing Cliff Richard or Harry Webb as he is known to some.
I suppose I’m being hypocritical as most of us have alibis (sic) we use in cyber space. Some with multiple identities. I’m now about to venture into dangerous waters as I might upset the owner with this one. Boadicea, seemingly, has a Gadhaffi-like tentacle alternative list of monikers. Boudicca and Bodica, two such examples.
Quickly moving on and finishing with a Royal flush, misspellings don’t bother me when they are still logical. You know what I mean, Rodger instead of Roger, Bryan instead of Brian, Jon instead of John. However, when Freddie is spelled Freddy I blow a fuse. Spell it rite i.e without the y.
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