Checkout delays
Winter is dribbling in. Today is one of those days when Britain exhibits its ability to produce really world class drizzle. By this I mean rain that isn’t sufficiently forceful to be exciting, but just enough to make you thoroughly wet and miserable. Mr. Butshesagirl and I had to go into town this morning, and Cornmarket Street was a sea of umbrellas, grey puddles and grim faces.
While we were in the tiny branch of Sainsbury’s searching vainly for veggie sausages, there was an announcement on the public address system: “We apologise for the delays customers are currently experiencing at the tills”. There was a pause, and for one glorious moment, I thought that she might be about to blame ‘leaves on the line’ for the wait. But no, it turned out to be “a technical fault” - probably the barcode scanner had got bored with going beep (see Eddie Izzard sketch about the short attention span of supermarket barcode scanners).
Same but different
I’ve been having a bit of a tinker with the site. I wanted to convert the site valid XHTML, with the page layout handled by CSS. After a lot of effort, I think I’ve done it. It looks more or less the same, but it should be standards compliant and, more importantly easier to maintain. Bear with me if there are a few glitches for a little while.
Celebrity, schmelebrity
I was glancing at the headlines on a rack of women’s magazines while drinking a coffee in a rather dull service station. These caught my eye:
Cosmopolitan: Celebrity Real-Life Stories (an oxymoron if I ever saw one)
Company: 126 Celebrity Hair Secrets (such a precise number - couldn’t they dredge up enough celebrity hair secrets to make it up to a round 130?)
My first post
This is my first entry - yay! I’ll be adding more later, but there has to be a first post and this is it.
I’ve been thinking about writing this blog for a while, so the next few entries won’t be on current events, but things I’ve been mulling over recently. Then hopefully the blog will catch up with life.
