Celebrated my birthday with a girls night out on Friday – went to Tiroler Hut at Bayswater, where the service was exceptionally friendly, the food was excellent (as was the weissbier) and I was serenaded an Austrian style ‘happy birthday’ by the restaurant’s one-man-accordian-playing-band! Went on to The Cow pub nearby afterwards, where there’s a… Continue reading Birthday, birthday, birthday
Month: March 2003
No war today, please
Right, got the obligatory anti-war bit over with. Can’t bring myself to rant yet today – feeling far too rough. A weekend recap should explain: Friday: Work drinks at 4pm to celebratecommiserate the departure of Mike, a friend and drinking buddy. This continued, more or less, until 6pm. Then to The Tyburn, a pub I’ve… Continue reading No war today, please
Lou’s Birthday!
It’s Lou’s birthday – come on everybody, sing it with me: Happy Birthday to LouHappy Birthday to LouHappy Birthday dear Lou-petHappy Birthday to Lou. Send a birthday greeting!
POWs and reporting standards
UPDATED 27/3/2003: I receive news updates from quite a few different tech news site, and from an article on one of them I discovered that the Arab TV station/network Al Jazeera has a new English-language version of their website [note that, at present, the site seems slow/down]. I haven’t had time to read the site… Continue reading POWs and reporting standards
Links on the anorak
Just a note to explain: in future entries, links will (probably) go via the anorak shortlink service. Why? Well, a number of reasons but the main one is probably so I can tell whether anyone actually clicks on the damn things! It might also mean I don’t have to keep a list of URIs handy… Continue reading Links on the anorak