Mark’s Musings

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I’m Gonna Be (500 Yards)

23 March 2007

In honour of this year’s contribution to Comic Relief by Peter Kay, here’s yet another take on the well-known song….
When I wake up, yeah I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who wakes up for a beer
When I go out, yeah I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who goes out […]

I’m sort of famous

1 March 2007

I’ve got my name mentioned in the Backbytes section of Computing magazine. For some reason, I am disproportionately pleased about this.

Mess! Oh, yes!

30 December 2006

Someone recently drew my attention to this blog post, referring to this NY Times article on the delights of a messy desk and “closet” (which is USian for wardrobe). Messy people are more creative, have more agile minds, and earn higher salaries than their tidy-minded friends and colleagues. With the exception of a higher salary […]

Peagloss

20 October 2006

A made up word. Anyone want to suggest what it means?

Please give me one

5 July 2006

I’ve created a site as a kind of social experiment. Please give me one!

I have lived at the same time as…

27 March 2006

Assuming that I have an average lifespan, and assuming an average
length of tenure for each, then by the time I die I will have been a
contemporary of…
  7 Popes
  9 Archbishops of Canterbury
 17 US Presidents  
 15 British Prime Ministers
  3 British monarchs
Of course, this depends a lot on entirely unpredictable variables, but
it’s an interesting list!