http://www.fluentradical.co.uk you know you're conservative when ... you watch Star Wars thinking the empire has a point of view. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:58:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sad that it had to happen this way, but he's made the right decision. Strictly is a good show precisely because it's not just a popularity contest, the celebrities have to work hard and show some skill to do well. It's difficult! I don't want to watch a show where ... http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2008/11/johns-gone-at-last/ I started blogging in early 2005, with a big burst of enthusiasm. I left it at the end of 2006 with some regrets. Looking around I'm a little sad at how few of my old blogroll friends made it from then to now. Non-trivial Solutions has left and his blog ... http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2008/10/the-long-haul/ According to The Telegraph, a school's isolation unit has been likened to Guantanamo Bay. The room is painted totally black. The walls, the partitions, the window blinds – everything was black. The partitions down one side created four cells where school kids are expected to sit at a desk all day. I would ... http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2008/10/boredom-torture/ The Mises Institute has an enormous selection of over 2,500 libertarian ebooks available for download from Mises Literature. I'm starting with The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn (1949) and The Regulated Consumer by Mary Bennett Peterson (1971). Let me know if you have any recommendations. http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2008/10/libertarian-ebooks/ The London Games Organizing Committee asked Wolff Olins for a logo that was: dynamic ... check different to previous Olympic logos ... check flexible ... check instantly recognizable ... check I think Wolff Olins delivered. Sadly the Committee forgot to ask for number 5: 5. Attractive. Duh! http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2007/06/olympic-logo-firm-nails-it/ I once wrote a simple to-do list web application. It took me a few hours, and it was for my own amusement and understanding. No one but me ever used it or even knew it existed. It was online for all of a few days. Yet still, that to-do list application ... http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2007/05/mtas-inadvertantly-hilarious/ I just deleted 4874 spam comments from the database. Wordpress crawled under the table and whimpered when I tried to use the normal interface, so I had to use PhpMyAdmin and figure out the database layout. Fortunately it wasn't hard. DELETE FROM `wp_comments` WHERE `comment_approved` = '0' did the trick. I have ... http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2007/04/4874-spam-comments/ According to the BBC: Network Rail, which runs Britain's railway tracks and signals, is expected to announce it has made a profit for the first time in its history. There is no sense in which we can call the excess subsidy that has been showered on this body a 'profit'. Profit refers ... http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2006/11/its-an-abuse-of-language-to-call-this-profit/ Civitas has released a new set of 'balanced' student worksheets on the EU. Great idea, but what about this line in worksheet 4, paragraph 1: The EU represents one of the greatest experiments in political history.For the first time nations have chosen to surrender aspects of their national sovereignty to a ... http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2006/11/slight-error/ It's beautiful. http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/2006/09/its-arrived/