Life, The Universe and Everything

Life, The Universe and Everything: Reflections and Rants

  • Opera Mini

    Playing with Opera Mini

  • Taxonomies

    I wonder if one of the problems humanities students have with mind mapping and essay planning is due to not knowing about taxonomy. It seems to me that in planning to cover an entire question, students often do poorly because they omit several ‘top level’ categories from the question. They are also unable to organise…

  • Election

    So the election is over, and this crowd of nannystaters beat the other crowd of nannystaters, apparently because people believe that the government actually runs the economy and the wrong government might wreck it. Since all the major parties promised exactly the same tax cuts, along with more police and more hospital beds, there wasn’t…

  • Updates

    I’ve made several slightly overdue updates, and broke my theme in the course of the operation.

  • Resistance to terrorism is always also an affirmation of humanism

    There is a connection which I’m afraid many people do not make in this quote, from an Adam Kirsch review of the new DeLillo book in the New York Sun. It strikes me as powerful and true, and deserves to be a bumper sticker.

  • Chasing Gaolposts

    One of the problems of planning research on history and the new media in teaching is that you have to run to keep up. I’m finishing a research methods chapter for next years work, and this morning I find an article whoch requires adding another layer to the questions

  • PDs plan to give (some) of you back (some) of your money

    I hear on the radio this morning that the PDs claim they are not engaging in auction politics with their 1 for 2 SSIA style pension deal. I wonder how voters will buy this without asking where the extra ‘free’ Euro comes from?

  • Is it just me or is everything just …..

    I was in Heuston Station last night, with a time to eat before the train, and found that the only place open was Supermacs. This would normally be a cause for rejoicing, but I’m afraid the great Irish Burger Chain is slipping.

  • Gimme Back the old phone!

    Gimme Back the old phone! I finally gave in and got a shiny new mobile, a Sony Ericsson v630i, and I’m disappointed My old Nokia 3200 was dying for a while – the back light was erratic for a while, some of the keys started dying this winter, the battery was loose and it would…

  • The Next War 2007: Iran

    The more I think about it, the more convinced I become that Bush will start a war in Iran this year in order to escape from the bunker.

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