All posts in April 2010

• Looks as though Labour is headed for a painful train wreck in next week’s election   • Looks as though the Tories will hold the single strongest hand in a hung Parliament   • Even if Brittania tilts the tables away from the Tories, Gordon Brown has spent the past week giving away reasons…

I think I would never have learned what “squeaky bum time” means apart from having lived in the UK, and for that — among other things — I give heartfelt thanks.   (What, you didn’t know either, faithful readers outside the UK? Here you go.)

The Bible Study group Monday night had a short discussion about password security Monday night, including how bad we all are at it (some of us were guilty of worst password practices); this approach strikes me as very intriguing. I think I may adopt a strategy like it, perhaps hand-modifying the card they prepare, just…

“Le plaisir de la critique nous ôte celui d’être vivement touchés de très belles choses.” — Jean de la Bruyère   I’m not quite sure how, in tenth grade, a copy of La Bruyère’s Les Caractéres came into my possession. My best estimate is that someone picked it up in a sale bin at the…

Well, the government has gone and done it, despite the overwhelming opposition of people who actually understand the bill in question. Britain has passed the Digital Economy Bill, which mandates kicking whole families off the internet if one member is even accused of downloading (good thing those record companies never make mistakes), and accords to…

My cathedrallian (cathedrallic?) boss, Fr. Kelvin, has edited and posted Sunday’s Easter sermon on St Mary’s “sermons” page, whence I’m picking up this stream —       Kelvin also reminds me (well, I don’t think I knew it in the first place, but he charitably couched it as a reminder) that St Mary’s has…

And leftover things emails I should acknowledge:   • I’ve been meaning for a while now to congratulate the inimitable Michael O’Connor Clarke, for his new gig as VP of Marketing at Freshbooks. (To be honest, you probably could imitate him, but if someone knew him they’d be able to tell the difference, and if…

No, I’m not talking about the beginning of the baseball season, nor of Duke’s convincing victory over WVU (sorry, Mountaineer friends). I’m talking about navigating last week’s complications without having run smack into any shoals. Oh, plus, there’s that whole Jesus thing.   My lectures ended a week ago last Friday, which might have triggered…

The sad part about the Guardian’s April Fool’s story about Labour’s new election tactics is that it sounds more interesting, perhaps even more convincing, than most everything else that politicians say and do.