Miscellania.
Mar. 30th, 2005 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotz1. I have a new trackball. After thinking about who to buy it from, I realised that I've rather liked the Microsoft mice I've used, so I bought a Trackball Explorer. Odd to buy hardware from a software company whose software I don't especially like, but there you go. Seems good so far.
2. Yet another themed-logo day at Google. Rather a nice one today, though. And we know a song about that, don't we children?
3. It's true what they say. Yesterday there was a rabbit happily grazing on a piece of grass the size of a couple of tennis courts by a path, happily ignoring passers-by in the middle of the day. Today there are two. By the end of summer Earth will be replaced by a ball of rabbits the size of Saturn. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a twitch of the nose and a small pile of brown pellets.
4. Ruaridh Nicoll had an article in the Absurder on Sunday about the dangers of playing up to the overseas view of your country and its culture, with particular reference to how Ireland has done it and how Scotland should not (see also Paddy's day whinging passim).
5. For those of you who don't remember much about him, The Guardian's obit for Jim Callaghan is here.
6. (Yes, yes, I'll shut up soon) The BBC reports that William Wallace's sword is heading to the States, briefly. Now, I've never heard anything to imply that the thing is actually Wallace's sword. The Wikipedia says that it's too young (last paragraph). Do any of you know anything about this?
2. Yet another themed-logo day at Google. Rather a nice one today, though. And we know a song about that, don't we children?
3. It's true what they say. Yesterday there was a rabbit happily grazing on a piece of grass the size of a couple of tennis courts by a path, happily ignoring passers-by in the middle of the day. Today there are two. By the end of summer Earth will be replaced by a ball of rabbits the size of Saturn. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a twitch of the nose and a small pile of brown pellets.
4. Ruaridh Nicoll had an article in the Absurder on Sunday about the dangers of playing up to the overseas view of your country and its culture, with particular reference to how Ireland has done it and how Scotland should not (see also Paddy's day whinging passim).
5. For those of you who don't remember much about him, The Guardian's obit for Jim Callaghan is here.
6. (Yes, yes, I'll shut up soon) The BBC reports that William Wallace's sword is heading to the States, briefly. Now, I've never heard anything to imply that the thing is actually Wallace's sword. The Wikipedia says that it's too young (last paragraph). Do any of you know anything about this?
