Category Archives: Tim’s Posts

“I could not fail to disagree with you less.” Boris Johnson wins The Foot in Mouth award in the Plain English campaign Awards Next will be the Muddle Puddle Webring Awards …

“Cutting school run ‘saves lives’. Insurer More Than says staggering school times could cut deaths Reducing the number of children being driven to school would save hundreds of lives on the roads, a study says.” Hmm, anyone for home ed?

I reckon we need one of these

With apologies to Jonathan who has been at work today and who has therefore spent the morning reading The Register “The Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership, aka “Safe speed for life” has just published its top 10 excuses for geting nobbled … Continue reading →

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four. You are the classic warning against the threat of totalitarianism. To you, politics and philosophy are inseparable, auchtorities suck and the reality might not exist outside our imaginations. Which literature classic are you? brought to you … Continue reading →

You are a rooster! No, don’t get me wrong! Every one simply LOVES you. You seem to know just what everyone likes. Happiness can be found anywhere for you! What Celtic Bird Are You? brought to you by Quizilla  

Someone should show Gordon Brown how you are supposed to add trend lines to graphs. I have a bad feeling that he approaches financial forecasting for the country with the same naïve optimism that I approach my own.  

A little while back I added a comments feature to reviews on Movie Gazette. Sometimes we get intelligent, enlightened posts, others, well, less so. We have a review of the Jim Carrey film Bruce Almighty and I am moved to … Continue reading →

Our kids deserve better than a Google™ future

here are some of today’s from the Beeb: “Royle wants to keep striker Bent” “Students not robots, says Charles” The first is, you will have guessed, a football story, the second clearly illustrates the benefits to be derived from a … Continue reading →

Wrinkle Free Horse Pants Always smile when you are having your picture taken

The objective sought in placing links in Blog comments is normally to raise the “PageRank®” of a site’s home page (part of the way Google ranks web pages) so that they get more visitors. Google will blacklist sites it finds … Continue reading →

I have found a couple of rather neat new toys, which I would like to share with you. Google has just launched Froogle UK which is a shopping comparison site, very much like Dealtime. Even better, you can now Google … Continue reading →

I came across this video about the future of messaging (funny). Also, how do Ikea come up with the names of their products? What was going through the brain of the person who came up with this Oh yeah, in … Continue reading →

Ssh, keep it quiet, mate. If you have been following the press you will probably have read how this diamond geezer recently managed to shift a job lot of low mileage subs to a bunch of Canadians. Well, they come … Continue reading →

All the best things are taxed, beer, fags…… I am wondering how this will be charged? Flat rate or sliding scale? Still, either way, hardly the End Of The World, is it?

Jax says, I’ve got to blog something from this morning’s ICT for under 2′s session. So here is a dog.

I have been meaning to post this for a while and now with the peace reigning here it seems like a good time to do it. In one of the villages near to us is a shop which proudly proclaims … Continue reading →

Next in my series of occasional rants: Another gem from the Beeb tells how “More than a quarter of state school pupils in England are receiving private tuition lessons, say researchers.” I liked this bit: “..And the widespread use of … Continue reading →

I am considering simply publishing the BBC Education RSS newsfeed and captioning it: “Reasons Why We Home Educate” Here are some of my current favourite articles:- Gangs who fail exams on purpose Gang culture in the north east of England … Continue reading →